A metal song has been recorded in protest at Taylor Swift trademarking the phrase "this sick beat", a lyric from her single ‘Shake It Off’.
Musician and activist Ben Norton uploaded the track onto YouTube under the moniker 'Peculate'. The two-minute song, entitled 'This Sick Beat', contains just those three words screamed repeatedly.
"Trademarks are a direct attack on one of the most fundamental and inalienable rights of all: our freedom of speech," Norton wrote about the song, which you can listen to below. "If you give the bourgeoisie an inch, they will take a mile... and everything else you have in the process. They have already privatized land, water, and words. After language, they will next try to privatized air. But, although the rich can try, they will never truly own the words we use and the language we speak."
Musician and activist Ben Norton uploaded the track onto YouTube under the moniker 'Peculate'. The two-minute song, entitled 'This Sick Beat', contains just those three words screamed repeatedly.
"Trademarks are a direct attack on one of the most fundamental and inalienable rights of all: our freedom of speech," Norton wrote about the song, which you can listen to below. "If you give the bourgeoisie an inch, they will take a mile... and everything else you have in the process. They have already privatized land, water, and words. After language, they will next try to privatized air. But, although the rich can try, they will never truly own the words we use and the language we speak."
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