Author: Jan Fornell Date: To: Lou Smith, Strange and unusual music. Subject: Re: [Exotica] Songs Forced on Detainees by US Jailers
Lou Smith wrote: > U.S. military interrogators have often blasted music at detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. According to the British law group Reprieve, these are among the songs they have used most frequently:
> --''Enter Sandman,'' Metallica.
> --''Bodies,'' Drowning Pool.
> --''Shoot to Thrill,'' AC/DC.
> --''Hell's Bells,'' AC/DC.
> --''I Love You,'' from the ''Barney and Friends'' children's TV show.
> --''Born in the USA,'' Bruce Springsteen.
> --''Babylon,'' David Gray.
> --''White America,'' Eminem.
> --''Sesame Street,'' theme song from the children's TV show.
> Other bands and artists whose music has been frequently played at U.S. detention sites: Aerosmith, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Don McLean, Lil' Kim, Limp Bizkit, Meat Loaf, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Tupac Shakur.
> This sort of begs the question whether Blackwater and their ilk pay
their dues to the RIAA. Or is that yet another a-legal grey zone?
Do some artists actually earn money from this? And what do the artists
say? As greedy as some of these people may be, I doubt that they really
enjoy having their music utilized for the purpose of torture.
