Posted on 12/22/2016 1:32:50 PM PST by drewh
“If anyone does do it, I hope that the check that they get is in the nine figures. Because it’s probably the last check they’re ever going to get,” Simon Renshaw tells TheWrap
The Dixie Chicks’ manager says the title of one of their songs sums up why Donald Trump’s inauguration team can’t book A-list talent: Hollywood isn’t ready to make nice with the president-elect.
Trump’s inaugural committee is still struggling to lock in A-list talent for his big festivities, according to Hollywood insiders, and even offering ambassadorships to anyone who can wrangle top singers.
“If anyone does do it, I hope that the check that they get is in the nine figures. Because it’s probably the last check they’re ever going to get,” Dixie Chicks manager Simon Renshaw told TheWrap.
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Renshaw said the Dixie Chicks’ “Not Ready to Make Nice” should be the anthem of anyone asked to perform.
“In my mind that’s the theme song to the Donald Trump presidency,” Renshaw said. “If anyone wants to know what we’re singing, that’s it. It’s what we should all be singing.”
He said he knows of no top artist who would be willing to take the gig.
“No one is prepared to normalize what is going on in the country right now,” said Renshaw, whose clients include “American Idol” alum Haley Reinhart and who has represented Clay Aiken and Paulina Rubio in the past.
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In a statement to TheWrap, Trump’s team denied offering any ambassadorships and said top-tier acts are “eager” to perform.
“There is no truth to this insinuation,” said committee spokesman Boris Epshteyn. “First-class entertainers are eager to participate in the inaugural events. The inauguration as a whole will be an exciting and uniting celebration of freedom and democracy. We will be releasing further details at the appropriate time.”
Despite his obvious desire for Hollywood approval, Trump may only now be realizing how unpopular he is with many in the entertainment industry, Renshaw said.
“People are just shaking their heads in incredulity,” Renshaw said. “It’s mind-blowing.”
The Dixie Chicks famously drew attention and criticism near the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq when singer Natalie Maines said in 2003: “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”
“Not Ready to Make Nice,” relased June 2006 in response to the backlash, is the band’s biggest hit to date.
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Thus far, the only artist publicly set to perform at Trump’s inauguration in January is 16-year-old former “America’s Got Talent” runner-up Jackie Evancho. The list of artists who have publicly refused to perform include Garth Brooks, Idina Menzel, The Chainsmokers and Elton John.
When Kanye West met with Trump this week, John Legend, who has collaborated with the rapper, said he was “pretty disappointed with Kanye that he says he would have voted for Trump.”
That’s the kind of peer pressure other artists can also expect, said Renshaw.
“Sort of, ‘What on earth were you thinking,’ is the common perception,” he said.
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He cited two artists of the caliber the Trump team is seeking, saying they would never kowtow to him like his fellow Republicans are.
“Someone like Katy Perry or a Justin Timberlake actually has a morality and it would never allow them to behave in the way that politicians are behaving around the office of the president-elect right now,” Renshaw said.
But he insisted the situation isn’t as dire as it appears, noting there is still one place where Trump could easily find all kinds of “eager” talent.
“His team’s got it all wrong. I think what they should be after for the inauguration is the Moscow State Circus,” Renshaw said.
Dixie Chicks Manager: Trump Inauguration Can't Book Performers Because Hollywood's 'Not Ready to Make Nice'
Performers including Garth Brooks, Celine Dion and The Chainsmokers have made other plans for January 20
Donald Trump is so unpopular with Hollywood that two talent wranglers told TheWrap they were offered ambassadorships in exchange for booking top singers. Here are some artists who said they wouldn't perform for the world.
Maybe there’d be room for Augie Meyers (Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornadoes...”She’s About A Mover”, “Mendocino”, “Hey Baby Que Paso”) on that stage.
Here are 2 songs he recorded a few years ago:
Obama Blues (2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAF7d7ZTWNk
and Obama Pinata (with video) from 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oew3ALHanVg
Didn't Mr. Timberlake appear on NBC around Christmas one year singing (in a video) about sticking his d*** in a box and presenting it as a gift to a (presuming here) lady? Morality my arse.
It IS news that they are “still together” as the fat one was launching her solo career at SXSW in Austin last year.
Maybe Augie could do a rendition of ‘Adios, Mexico’ too.
The fat Chick is just holding true to her claim that “patriotism is overrated”
KISS has allegedly declined
He should really trigger liberals and bring in nothing but Russian performers :o).
What’s more, despite the Left’s revisionist history, the government did not create or enforce the blacklist (and truth be told, neither did Hollywood).
Red Channels (or was it Red Currents) tracked the Marxist remarks and ties of celebrities. It was privately published and was used by some to create boycott lists.
Hollywood was afraid of the boycott so when the studios would hire some of the blacklisted writers (who might slip some propaganda messaging in their works or if nothing else send some of their profits to Marxist groups) the production companies would use pseudonyms to slide the blacklist persons’ involvement past those monitoring such things.
The Vichy Chicks lineup has not been the ORIGINAL band since they became famous. The fat one was a later addition.
Hollywood still runs the entertainment business. Nashville is the recording studios, what networks and magazines are run from there?
If you don’t get cover placement and tv coverage and placement in movies and commercials, you don’t exist to 98.2% of the market.
Hiring Katy Perry or Justin Timberlake to play the inauguration is akin to seeking Cher and Rod Stewart to sing at the Jimmy Carter 1977 inauguration. Ultimately meaningless.
I think he realizes. And he may just decide to make a project of smashing the power of the Hollywood Gay Mafia over the entertainment industry.
For the life of me I can’t remember who played Ronald Reagan’s 1980 inauguration. But I remember the Berlin wall came down...
Reagan was inaugurated in 1981.
Every entertainer who has been asked to perform and has refused should be forbidden from every government affiliated entertainment for the fullness of the DJT administration. That includes patriotic events, 4th of July veterans events - even the Super Bowl. If the NFL wants American soldiers to use as props for their annual event, the boycotting entertainers can not participate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Ronald_Reagan
Reagan’s inaugural address was 2,452 words long. It utilized the vista offered by the West Front, invoking the symbolism of the Presidential memorials and Arlington National Cemetery in the distance.[2] As Reagan was giving his address, 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for the previous 444 days were released.
...President Reagan was about to have lunch with Congressional leaders in Statuary Hall in the Capitol after the inauguration ceremony when he was informed that the plane carrying the hostages had left Iranian airspace.[3] During the luncheon, he broke the news saying: “With thanks to Almighty God, I have been given a tag line, the get-off line, that everyone wants for the end of a toast or a speech, or anything else. Some 30 minutes ago, the planes bearing our prisoners left Iranian air space, and they’re now free of Iran.”
The NYet Times didn’t even find room in their column space to devout any attention to what celebrities may have been at the inauguration. And they call THAT journalism? < /sarc >
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0120.html
Lady GooGooGaga is this year’s Sup’rBowl singer.
I believe KISS is currently touring.
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