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Why I [Grace Slick] Decided To License Starship's Music To Chick-fil-A
(Note: This op-ed is by Grace Slick of Jefferson Starship/Jefferson Airplane fame writing in the 1st Person.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizblog/2017/02/21/why-i-decided-to-license-starships-music-to-chick-fil-a/#fc25a007e52e
Recently an ad agency asked me if they could use a song I sang on, in 1987, for a TV commercial. I didnt immediately tell them to go f**k themselves. After all, Ive licensed my music to advertise someone elses product before. In 1967, Jefferson Airplane wrote a psychedelic jingle about white rabbits jeans thats a damn classic (Google it!). But that was for Levi Strauss & Co. This time, the agency wanted the Starship tune Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now for a very different kind of enterprise: Chick-fil-A.
Chick-fil-A pisses me off. The Georgia-based company has a well-documented history of funding organizations, through their philanthropic foundation WinShape, that are against gay marriage. In interviews, CEO Dan T. Cathy has critiqued gay-rights supporters who have the audacity to define marriage and said they are bringing Gods judgment upon the nation.
I firmly believe that men should be able to marry men, and women women. I am passionately against anyone who would try to suppress this basic human right. So my first thought when "Check"-fil-A came to me was, F**k no!
But then I decided, F**k yes.
So that was my voice you heard on the Chick-fil-A commercial during the Grammy Awards telecast. I am donating every dime that I make from that ad to Lambda Legal, the largest national legal organization working to advance the civil rights of LGBTQ people, and everyone living with HIV. Admittedly its not the millions that WinShape has given to organizations that define marriage as heterosexual. But instead of them replacing my song with someone else's and losing this opportunity to strike back at anti-LGBTQ forces, I decided to spend the cash in direct opposition to "Check"-fil-As causes and to make a public example of them, too. Were going to take some of their money, and pay it back.
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Why I [Grace Slick] Decided To License Starship's Music To Chick-fil-A (Original Post)
Stonepounder
Mar 2019
OP
she has many interesting/entertaining interview vids on youtube. love em all..mostly nt
msongs
Mar 2019
#1
msongs
(67,394 posts)1. she has many interesting/entertaining interview vids on youtube. love em all..mostly nt
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)2. Smart. She's nobody's fool.nt
dchill
(38,465 posts)3. Good one, Grace! Thank you.
Arkansas Granny
(31,514 posts)4. Hah! I'll bet Chick-fill-A never expected that. Good for Grace.
in2herbs
(2,945 posts)5. I do what I can to put them out of business -- never eat there. nt
3Hotdogs
(12,369 posts)6. Kinda like the people who donate to gay rights causes for every minute Westboro shows up on display.
Paladin
(28,249 posts)7. You had me in 1967, Grace.
But what a profoundly smooth move against the douchebags at Chick-fil-A.
brush
(53,764 posts)8. Didn't that company also come out strongly against Obama...
along with Papa John's pizza?
ROB-ROX
(767 posts)9. ROCK ON GRACE
I personally have never bought anything from this company!! I have no idea where any of their stores are located (Nor Cal)?? I have thought this organization was evil so their food must be tainted. I am so glad the money will go to a GREAT cause which will help many people. CHEERS