Posted on 03/04/2024 2:02:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
Legendary singer’s estate orders Trump to halt ‘outrageous’ use of her music at rallies Updated: Mar. 04, 2024, 11:50 a.m.|Published: Mar. 04, 2024, 11:35 a.m. Irish singer Sinead O'Connor is seen at the Grammy Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall, Feb. 22, 1989. (AP Photo) The estate of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who died in July 2023, issued a joint statement with her label, Chrysallis Records, ordering Donald Trump's campaign to stop playing O'Connor's music at his rallies. By Robert Higgs, cleveland.com LONDON – Donald Trump’s selection of music for his political rallies has again sparked discord.
The estate of Sinead O’Connor, in a joint statement with her longtime label Chrysalis Records, said Trump’s use of the late singer’s best-known song, “Nothing Compares 2 U,” at a campaign event in January was outrageous.
“Throughout her life, it is well known that Sinéad O’Connor lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, fairness, and decency towards her fellow human beings,” the statement said, according to the BBC.
“It was with outrage therefore that we learned that Donald Trump has been using her iconic performance of Nothing Compares 2 U at his political rallies,” the statement continued. “It is no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have been disgusted, hurt, and insulted to have her work misrepresented in this way by someone who she herself referred to as a ‘biblical devil’.”
The statement concluded with a demand that the Trump campaign cease and desist from using the song at his rallies.
O’Connor, 56, died in July 2023 in her flat in London. In January the Coroner Court ruled the Irish singer’s death a result of natural causes.
At the rally in Maryland in February, Abba’s “Dancing Queen,” Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” and Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds” as well as “Nothing Compares 2 U” were among the songs played before Trump took the stage, The Guardian said.
But a host of artists have told Trump and his campaign to keep his hands off their music, and in many cases threatened legal action if he keeps playing it at his rallies.
Among those artists are Adele, Aerosmith, the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Guns n’ Roses, Leonard Cohen, Linkin Park, Neil Young, Nickelback, Ozzy Osbourne, Panic! at the Disco, Pharrell Williams, Phil Collins, Prince, Queen, R.E.M., Rihanna, The Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Village People and the White Stripes, Variety reported.
Johnny Marr, the guitarist for The Smiths, joined the list in January after spotting a video ABC presidential campaign reporter Soo Rin Kim posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, in which the band’s song “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want” can be clearly heard playing for a pre-rally crowd in South Dakota.
“Ahh…right…OK. I never in a million years would’ve thought this could come to pass,” Marr posted on X. “Consider this s--- shut right down right now.”
I think PDJT should start playing “Forty Hour Week” by Alabama at his rallies. It would connect with so many “real” people.
So their “music” can be considered as campaign contributions?
Curious why anyone going to the rallies with her singing would want to listen....
Her father was a big fan. IIRC Rush also had to make donations to PETA to continue using the bumper music. I think it was around $360K per year.
It’s not her song, Prince wrote it.
I miss her head.
Yeah, lets see a list of entertainers who do not discriminate over who plays their music by political party and go from there.
Democrat-only entertainers…list ‘em so we can avoid them
Can’t stop him unless he says okay.
He’s paying ASCAP, BMI and SESAC.
“What gives, cue ball? I’m looking at you, I’m thinking: fourteen in the side pocket!”
Her shitty voice and song is the last thing I’d want my fans to hear but if it bugs her I’d play it every time. Under the PPL there’s nothing they can do to stop it and by trying they suffer reputational damage, i.e more than half the country will think they are aholes.
SESAC also
Songwriters get the royalties. Not the performers.
At least Chrissie Hynde was cool with Rush using “My City Was Gone”, Rush just had to pay PETA, but Chrissie said her parents liked to listen to Rush.
“If it was my show I would have given her such a smack.” - Joe Pesci
That’s what I said in several posts.
You’d think she would have shaved her head and wrent her clothes....oh wait...
That said, I like most of Sinead's music. She or her estate might not like such a deplorable like me listening to it, but too bad.
:)
Right.
That’s the ring tone on my phone.
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