Statue of Liberty in Popular Culture - in Music

In Music

• In 1968, Al Kooper posed as the Statue of Liberty on his first solo album, "I Stand Alone."
• The cover of the 1973 Atlantic Records compilation album Let It Rock has the statue holding aloft a microphone instead of the torch, winking, and flashing 'her' legs.
• The album cover of Supertramp's Breakfast in America shows a rendering of the downtown New York skyline made from egg cartons, coffee mugs, and other dining utensils. In the foreground a waitress with a name tag reading "Libby" holds a glass of orange juice on a saucer in her outstretched right hand, and a menu in her left, as she mimics the statue's pose.
• XTC recorded a single called "Statue of Liberty", about the singer's apparent attraction to the statue.
• The Statue of Liberty has been used as a symbol of protest, as in the cover for the Dead Kennedys 1986 album Bedtime for Democracy.
• In the music video to Franz Ferdinand's song, Eleanor Put Your Boots On, the titular character (an animated Eleanor Friedberger) runs up the Statue of Liberty.
• The front cover for metal band God Forbid's album, IV: Constitution of Treason featured the Statue with the torch torn away from the arm with a hellish environment.
• In the music video Go West of the Pet Shop Boys, Statue of Liberty is symbolizing socialism, therefore it's red in the video
• In the Music Video Black or White by Michael Jackson. He is dancing in the torch while a pan out happens and it shows famous places from around the world.
• A claymation version of the statue is briefly featured in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker right before the "Speed Demon" segment. When Michael is hiding from various claymation characters, he ducks behind the statue, who starts saying "land of the free, home of the weird."
• The deathcore band All Shall Perish used an edited picture of the Statue on the cover of their third album Awaken the Dreamers, where the torch has been replaced by a gun, most likely to reflect the band's radical left wing political perspective.
• The alternative band The Smashing Pumpkins featured a red and black Statue of Liberty on their album Zeitgeist, partially submerged in a red sea and in front of a rising sun.

• It is Briefly seen in Celine Dion's A New Day Has Come Music Video