Once again, another presidential candidate has unlawfully misused their campaigning song. Several times throughout recent history of U.S. presidential candidates, a lack of lyrical understanding and ill-favored use of popular rock songs has occurred. Once again, Republican Candidate Newt Gingrich has kept the trend alive.

The GOP presidential hopeful was served a cease and desist notice from Third Side Music, a Montreal-based publishing company that owns the rights to the song ‘How you like me now?’. In 2009, British rock band, The Heavy, released the song which hasn’t been received with much U.S. attention, until the past week.

After the owners, Third Side Music, sent the cease and desist notice, the Band released this statement on their Facebook page:

“If you heard How You Like Me Now being used by Republican, Newt Gingrich, in his campaign, we’d like you to know it had fuck all to do with us and we are trying to stop it being used. TWATS.”

The careless misuse of popular music containing genius lyrical arrangement have dated back to when President Ronald Reagan misused Bruce Springsteen’s song, ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ A song that signified a Vietnam veteran’s unhealthy fight back to social status after being mistreated by his government, the meaning was overlooked because of it’s ‘catchy’ chorus. Recently Tom Petty sent a similar notice to another Republican Candidate, Michelle Bachamann, for her use of his song ‘American Girl’ and that same week, ‘Katrina and the Waves’ ordered Bachmann to stop using their song, ‘I’m Walking on Sunshine’.

Whether it’s a bad case of politically educated conservatives uneducated about rock music or the music itself in a ‘step-father’ like hate relationship with that particular party, all lovers of lyrical greatness in music realize someone needs to do a better job at the GOP screening stage.