Clocking up the royalties

Written By: Tane - Date published: 5:32 pm, November 29th, 2007 - 184 comments
Categories: john key - Tags: john key

John Key’s new DVD doesn’t tell us much about what National would do in Government, but as we’ve noted before, his choice of Coldplay’s “Clocks” as the theme tune is more revealing than he may have intended.

Here are some of the lyrics:

Lights go out and I can’t be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
Have brought me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead

Come out of things unsaid
Shoot an apple off my head

Confusion that never stops
The closing walls and the ticking clocks

Am I part of the cure
Or am I part of the disease

A couple of interesting questions are also raised:

Are National paying Coldplay their royalties for use of their property? They are legally required to do so, as APRA, the body responsible for collecting artists’ royalties, explains.

And, if National are paying out royalties to one of the world’s biggest bands on top of the $50,000 plus in other expenses, how much have National’s secret backers paid out for this 13 minute homage to John Key’s ego?

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thomas 176

1 December 2007 at 10:29 am

Mr KEY hopes more British bands will follow where Coldplay has led the way, creating a Tory version of the socialist bands-for-Labour movement organised by Billy Bragg in the early 1990s.

“I’m calling it Blue Wedge,” he said. “Blue is back. I want all the top bands out there, from the Attic Monkeys to the Kaiser Chefs, to know they’re welcome. There’s absolutely nothing about my policies which anyone could object to.”

you could not make this shit up
Capitcha vile national
thomas 177

1 December 2007 at 10:42 am

Oops, shit, it wasn’t david, it was TDS!

FFS.
thomas 178

1 December 2007 at 10:55 am

Sorry it was the way he only quoted half the article got me confused

Cap Mrs thomas
thomas 179

1 December 2007 at 11:07 am

But at least it gets the truth out there

cap honest broker
thomas 180

1 December 2007 at 11:10 am

News Flash

Evel Knievel dead at 69

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/11/30/kneviel.ap/index.html
thomas 181

1 December 2007 at 11:57 am

never did like him
thomas 182

1 December 2007 at 12:05 pm

I’m feeling a bit broken up over it

Cap Dork Stuffed
Mike 183

1 December 2007 at 12:49 pm

This is classic ironic National Party incompetence, spend thousands of dollars to produce a sales DVD only to be forced to pull the whole thing over intellectual property theft.

Unless you are deaf, there is no way you can say the tune is not derivative of ‘Clocks’. It’s just a very slight remix of the song.
burt 184

2 December 2007 at 7:08 pm

rOb

Folks, it doesn’t matter how often you chide Burt on the error of his ways. He just loves the word retrospective , and he’ll keep popping up with it. I wrote the response below several threads ago – Burt did not reply:

I have no problem with the retrospective validation of government spending following the 2005 election because:

(1) It is standard practice for NZ governments to retrospectively validate their spending – this happens most years. (Did you know, Burt, that a National government once retrospectively validated $50 million in illegal spending?)….

I did reply rOb, I guess you didn’t like my reply when I said you were like a 4 year old saying National did it too !

Standard Labour response … we weren’t the only ones caught stealing tax payers money so it’s OK…. If you want to shoot me down then you could at least stick to reality.