Radiohead have shared a brief statement addressed to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after the Department of Homeland Security used a choral rendition of their song “Let Down” in an Instagram Reel. It reads:
“Let Down,” an album track from 1997’s OK Computer, recently became Radiohead’s fourth-ever song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. In October, Thom Yorke said that the band wouldn’t perform in Israel again while Benjamin Netanyahu is prime minister.
Following the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good by ICE agents in January, Bruce Springsteen shared the protest anthem “Streets of Minneapolis.” Last fall, Zach Bryan posted a snippet of “Bad News,” a then-unreleased song that later appeared on his album With Heaven on Top, featuring anti-ICE lyrics—though Bryan quickly hedged his criticisms, writing that the full song would hit “on both sides of the aisle.”