{"id":2304486,"date":"2026-02-28T04:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2304486"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:07:56","slug":"radiohead-demands-ice-not-use-let-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/radiohead-demands-ice-not-use-let-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead Demands ICE Not Use \u2018Let Down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"vulture-zephr-anchor\" data-editable=\"content\">\n<div class=\"lede-image-wrapper inset square\">\n<div class=\"image-wrapper crop-override\">\n            <picture><source media=\"(min-resolution: 192dpi) and (min-width: 1180px), (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (min-width: 1180px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/175\/de2\/4c3c4233b804b7ed7afd2dae97ef894525-radiohead.2x.rsquare.w330.jpg 2x\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 1180px) \" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/175\/de2\/4c3c4233b804b7ed7afd2dae97ef894525-radiohead.rsquare.w330.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\"\/><source media=\"(min-resolution: 192dpi) and (min-width: 768px), (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/175\/de2\/4c3c4233b804b7ed7afd2dae97ef894525-radiohead.2x.rsquare.w330.jpg 2x\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/175\/de2\/4c3c4233b804b7ed7afd2dae97ef894525-radiohead.rsquare.w330.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\"\/><source media=\"(min-resolution: 192dpi), (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pyxis.nymag.com\/v1\/imgs\/175\/de2\/4c3c4233b804b7ed7afd2dae97ef894525-radiohead.2x.rsquare.w330.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\"\/> <\/picture>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"lede-image-data\">\n<p>\n                  <span class=\"credit\">Photo: David Wolff-Patrick\/Redferns<\/span>\n              <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmm5nnapv000i0ihpbb91qkef@published\" data-word-count=\"137\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2019\/03\/radiohead-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame.html\">Radiohead<\/a> joins the seemingly endless list of artists mad at the Trump administration for using their intellectual property to justify cruelty via shitposting. This time, it\u2019s the use of <em>OK Computer<\/em>\u2019s \u201cLet Down\u201d in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU6hq_9kzFp\/\">video promoting ICE<\/a>. The video shows people purported to be the victims of \u201ccriminal illegal alien violence,\u201d per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/radiohead-tells-trumps-ice-take-video-using-song-rcna261010\">NBC News<\/a>. The Trump, White House, and DHS social media accounts also shared the video, part of ICE\u2019s \u201cThis is our why\u201d campaign to justify violent crackdowns across America. Radiohead issued a statement that was to the point: \u201cWe demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. It ain\u2019t funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don\u2019t get to appropriate it without a fight,\u201d the band wrote. \u201cAlso, go fuck yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmm5nw55w00183b7c1obudq7s@published\" data-word-count=\"100\">Radiohead is just the latest to object to their image and music being hijacked by the Trump administration. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/sza-white-house-video-evil-boring.html\">SZA called<\/a> the use of her viral <em>Saturday Night Live <\/em>song in a video depicting DHS handcuffing people \u201cEvil n Boring.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/sabrina-carpenter-white-house-ice-video.html\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> objected to her song \u201cJuno\u201d being used in a White House video in much the same was as SZA. The White House <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/white-house-sabrina-carpenter-memes.html\">doubled down<\/a> on Carpenter, taking her <em>SNL <\/em>promo video with Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez and implying he is an undocumented immigrant. So don\u2019t expect contrition from DHS just because Radiohead told them to fuck off. They\u2019re not Scott Tenorman.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related multi related-count-3\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/related\/instances\/cmm5nw39k00113b7cfs8oj0yc@published\" data-track-type=\"article-list\">\n<h3 class=\"related-title\" data-editable=\"title\">Related<\/h3>\n<\/aside><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vulture.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: David Wolff-Patrick\/Redferns Radiohead joins the seemingly endless list of artists mad at the Trump administration for using their intellectual property to justify cruelty via shitposting. This time, it\u2019s the use of OK Computer\u2019s \u201cLet Down\u201d in a video promoting ICE. The video shows people purported to be the victims of \u201ccriminal illegal alien violence,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2304487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[306380,438126,21800,24638,446481],"class_list":["post-2304486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-ice","tag-ice-out","tag-music","tag-trump","tag-vulture-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Radiohead-Demands-ICE-Not-Use-\u2018Let-Down.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304488,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304486\/revisions\/2304488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}