I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Attribution Dispute)
A cut of I Love Rock 'n' Roll plays over Trailer 2's Ammu-Nation ad at ~2:09, but outlets disagree on whether it is Joan Jett's version or The Arrows'.
- Song
- I Love Rock 'n' Roll
- Appears in
- Trailer 2, Ammu-Nation commercial (~2:09)
- RockstarINTEL credits
- Joan Jett
- GameSpot credits
- The Arrows
- Status
- Track confirmed, attribution unresolved
Around the 2:09 mark of Trailer 2, an in-world commercial for Ammu-Nation plays, and under it runs a version of I Love Rock 'n' Roll. The track is unmistakable; which recording it is has never been settled.
The disagreement sits between named outlets. RockstarINTEL credits the Joan Jett version, while GameSpot credits The Arrows, the band that recorded the original. As general music history: The Arrows cut the song first in the mid-1970s, and Joan Jett's early-1980s cover is the recording most listeners know. Fan coverage after the trailer also noted uncertainty about the exact version or cover in use, so this page presents both attributions rather than picking one, and the honest framing is a confirmed track with an unresolved credit.
That puts the song in a slightly greyer zone than the rest of the confirmed soundtrack. Songs like Hot Together are named or cleanly identified; here, only the composition is certain. It still earns its place in the confirmed column because it plays in Rockstar's own published trailer, verifiable by anyone who watches it.
The placement itself is classic Rockstar: a real rock anthem scoring a parody gun-store ad, the kind of tonal joke the series' radio and commercial breaks have traded on for decades. Whether the cut ships in the final game, and on which station, is unknown. The dispute is logged alongside every confirmed track in our soundtrack article.