"These warmongering murderers are using our music without our consent. This makes us both nauseous and furious. Kind of typical though, isn't it? To strut up and take what isn't theirs with a vile arrogance..."
"I'm just a cross-hair, I'm just a shot away from you / And if you leave here, you leave me broken, shattered I lie."
Franz Ferdinand's frontman Alex Kapranos publicly criticized the Israeli Defense Forces for using the band's 2004 hit 'Take Me Out' in a propaganda video without consent. The IDF video, captioned 'Operation Roaring Lion,' featured Israeli soldiers celebrating military strikes on Iran alongside footage of fighter jets and explosions. The video used lyrics from the song's opening verse about being a target. Kapranos expressed that the unauthorized use made the band both nauseous and furious, characterizing it as typical arrogance of taking what isn't theirs. The IDF subsequently deleted the video.
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