In fact, Franz frontman Alex Kapranos pitched a super-sized fit when he discovered that Sony Music and Epic Records had given McDonald’s the go-ahead to use one of the band’s songs in an advertising campaign. The singer lashed out at his American label for signing off on the idea and at the restaurant chain’s campaign, an online affair that was hosted at latenightmcdonalds.com.
“Dirty bastards. Stupid arrogant motherfucking pig-brained arseholes. I’d rather eat a cowpat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds,” he wrote in one of a series of Tweets about the event.
McDonalds has since deactivated the website