Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos Attacks Label Over McDonalds Ad

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos has lashed out at the band's U.S. distributor Epic Records after the label licensed one of the group's songs for a McDonald's ad campaign without getting permission from the band, Stereogum reports. "This: http://www.latenightmcdonalds.com/ is an example of how a band falls out with their US label. Did they think we'd approve this shit?" Kapranos wrote on his Twitter earlier this week, linking fans to a Website that has since been removed from public view. Kapranos, a noted foodie who compiled his eating adventures into a travelogue called Sound Bites, later tweeted, "Dirty bastards. Stupid arrogant motherfucking pig-brained arseholes. I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonald's." So, it's apparent he's not lovin' it.

Kapranos later backed off the purveyors of the Big Mac and focused his anger at Epic. Which track the label licensed is unclear as the McD's link requires an administrator's password. "I'm not really pissed off with McDonalds. They're just the same as any other psychopathic corporation — no more evil, no less," Kapranos tweeted. "The psychopathic corporation I am pissed off with is Sony who owns Epic who release our records in America. But not really surprised."

Kapranos later joked that Sony/Epic's McDonald's deal ruined a potential White Castle sponsorship for Franz Ferdinand, adding "I was going to get a lifetime supply of those cute (much tastier than McD) burgers."

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“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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