Representatives of quite a few artists have taken subject with Trump’s unauthorised use of their music at marketing campaign occasions.
The Swedish pop group ABBA has informed the marketing campaign of US presidential candidate Donald Trump to cease enjoying its songs at his marketing campaign occasions, stating that they didn’t grant permission for his or her use.
The band’s document label issued a press release on Thursday after plenty of their most well-known songs, together with Dancing Queen, Cash, Cash, Cash, and The Winner Takes It All have been performed at a Trump rally in Minnesota final month.
“Along with the members of ABBA, now we have found that movies have been launched the place ABBA’s music has been used at Trump occasions, and now we have due to this fact requested that such use be instantly eliminated and brought down,” document label Common Music mentioned in a information launch.
It isn’t the primary time that well-known artists have taken subject with their work getting used at Trump’s political occasions with out permission. The household of soul and funk artist Isaac Hayes threatened Trump with authorized motion earlier this month over the unauthorised use of the musician’s songs.
In July, a journalist with the Swedish outlet Svenska Dagbladet reported that The Winner Takes It All had been performed throughout a Trump marketing campaign occasion in Minnesota, with a 10-minute video clip of ABBA performing a few of their most well-known songs projected onto a big display screen afterwards.
In March, the property of Irish singer Sinead O’Connor additionally requested Trump to cease utilizing the famously rebellious singer’s Nothing Compares 2 U” at marketing campaign occasions.
“It’s no exaggeration to say that Sinead would have been disgusted, harm and insulted to have her work misrepresented on this approach by somebody who she herself known as a ‘biblical satan.’ Because the guardians of her legacy, we demand that Donald Trump and his associates desist from utilizing her music instantly,” a joint assertion from O’Connor’s property and document label mentioned on the time.
Through the years, well-known crooners corresponding to Tom Petty, Adele, REM, and Celine Dion have voiced related complaints.
Earlier this month, Trump additionally shared pretend AI pictures purporting to point out megastar Taylor Swift endorsing him on social media.
