Nile Rodgers has threatened authorized motion after a far-right political group used the hit music We Are Household in a marketing campaign.
The songwriter/musician has requested Switzerland’s rightwing populist Swiss Folks’s Occasion (SVP) to cease utilizing a “soundalike” model of Sister Sledge’s music We Are Household in its election marketing campaign.
In preparation for the Swiss parliamentary elections which can happen in October, SVP, who adheres to nationwide conservatism, launched Das Isch d’SVP (That is the SVP) on Monday. The music’s refrain immediately echoes the 1979 hit We Are Household, which was initially written by Rodgers and the late Bernard Edwards.
“I wrote ‘We Are Household’ to be the final word music about inclusion and variety in any respect ranges, no matter race, ethnicity, age, gender, faith or sexual orientation,” the musician wrote on Twitter/X on Tuesday. “I condemn its use by the SVP (Swiss Folks’s Occasion) or anybody else not preserving with the values of the music and all first rate folks. The aim of the music is to convey pleasure to all with no exclusions!”
Rodgers, 70, added, “@HipgnosisSongs, @SonyMusicPub and @WarnerChappell are all working to have the SVP stop and desist their use of the music.”
SVP delegate Thomas Matter has been credited because the artist behind the political group’s music, underneath the title DJ Tommy. Matter informed Blick, a Swiss tabloid, that the observe “has nothing to do with” the well-known hit.
“I do know the music by Sister Sledge, that is additionally a brilliant music,” the previous businessman informed the outlet. “However Das Isch d’SVP was written particularly for this challenge and has nothing to do with We Are Household.”
Matter, 57, added, “After all, in pop music there are one million songs that sound alike, there’s nothing stunning or new about that.”
SVP’s music is now not out there to take heed to on YouTube.
