Trump illegally uses Foo Fighters' music, and they say no.
Trump illegally uses Celine Dion's music, and she says no.
Trump illegally uses Abba's music and they say no.
Trump illegally uses the hit song "Seven Nation Army", and Jack White's response is clear as day.
Source: Jack White's reals on Instagram.
Which ABBA song did he use?
Money money money is the only one that seems appropriate to me...
@Brit_In_Moldova that was the song they played.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/abba-joins-music-artists-demanding-trump-stop-playing-songs.amp
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Ok, I presume, but here in Europe there are actually โNaziโ rock festivals, so I assumed you have them too?
Our right extremists have discovered music as a propaganda tool long before there was even such a thing as social media or TikTok. It's a win-win situation for the right, the scene gets money for selling tickets/merch/cds/etc with their propaganda.
Ah, but the creepy old weirdo tends to marginalize himself every time he drops his mask and stops playing the role he wants to project to the outside world, and the real #Donold creeps out of his husk.
Notice how #Trump is backpedalling on the highly popular (with billionaires and other sociopaths) #project2025 ๐
So why not more of this refreshing honesty in marketing.
@randahl How is DonOLD using the music illegally? Doesn't he pay royalties? Does he need an extra licence?
If musicians don't want to be played on trump rallies or not, it seems there is not much they can do, can they?
@torstentorsten the key reason is, some use of music may reflect back on the artist. So even though everyone can legally LISTEN to someone's music, that does not mean that anyone can use the same music for ANY purpose.
It works the same way for all types of art. In Denmark for instance, there is a sculpture of The Little Mermaid which every tourist takes pictures of, but that does not give you the right to use a picture of this sculpture in a political campaign, in movies, on posters, etc.
@randahl Okay, I didn't know this.
But has there ever been a trial about music being used 'illegally' by a political party? There seems to be a long history of songs used by political parties against their authors will (e.g. here: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-lists/stop-using-my-song-35-artists-who-fought-politicians-over-their-music-75611/), but I couldn't find one trial actually.
@randahl Seems like a trial would be hard to win for the musicians (https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/17/music-at-political-rallies-trump/)
But what musicians can do is make a statement. (See Jack White in your first posting =) )
And no lies in that statementโฆ none at all.
I would love to see all the artists who've been illegally used by Trump, band together into a temporary super-group, and release a whole album of catchy earworms on the theme of "Donald Trump is weird"
Imagine a large percentage of the world's population singing against him! Flashmobs outside his rallies!
@randahl The loser who thinks rules and laws do not apply to him, uses works from artists for his scam campaign without their consent? Like, as any robber baron venture capitalist do? Say it isnโt so.
/s
Sue the news organisations for "news" stories that use the music.
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Best response ever! ๐ ๐ค๐ผ
Every time DonOLD comes up with some stupid stuff somebody should just quote Jack White.
@randahl from the "law and order" president none the less who'd have guessed.
Next he'll be doing campaign promotion videos and servicemens cemeteries.
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