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Johnny Marr, a singer and guitarist within the band The Smiths, is talking out this week to demand that the previous President Donald Trump cease enjoying his music throughout his marketing campaign rallies.
Marr Sounds Off In opposition to Trump
Earlier this week, video went viral exhibiting The Smiths’ 1984 hit “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want” being performed at a Trump rally in Speedy Metropolis, South Dakota.
This didn’t sit properly with Marr, who fired again by demanding that Trump cease utilizing his music.
“Ahh…right…OK,” Marr wrote. “I never in a million years would’ve thought this could come to pass. Consider this s— shut right down right now.”
Marr’s feedback are in distinction to these made by the previous The Smiths frontman Morrissey, who has spoken out in opposition to woke leftwing cancel tradition lately.
“People could make five flops and the label would stick by them, now the labels are quite bloodless, they will just get rid of you if you say anything that they don’t agree with, they’re not interested,” Morrissey stated in 2022, in accordance with Fox Information. “Now they talk about ‘oh, we must have diversity, diversity, diversity.’ Diversity is people that you don’t know, and it’s just another word for conformity, it’s the new way of saying conformity.”
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Different Musicians Make Identical Demand
Marr is the most recent in an extended line of musicians to demand that Trump cease utilizing their music. Others who’ve achieved so embody The Rolling Stones, Pharrell Williams, Linkin Park, Rihanna, Village Individuals and Tom Petty’s property. Again in 2019, Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne and spouse Sharon Osbourne issued a press release saying that they not wished Trump to make use of the tune “Crazy Train” at his rallies.
“Based on this morning’s unauthorized use of Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Crazy Train,’ we are sending notice to the Trump campaign (or any other campaigns) that they are forbidden from using any of Ozzy Osbourne’s music in political ads or in any political campaigns,” they stated in a press release posted to Sharon’s Instagram.
“Ozzy’s music cannot be used for any means without approvals,” they added.
Neil Younger Sues Trump
The singer Neil Younger went as far as to file a lawsuit in opposition to Trump for copyright infringement for utilizing his music in 2020.
“This is NOT ok with me…,” Younger wrote on social media in response to his songs “Rockin’ in the Free World” and “Devil’s Sidewalk” being performed at a Trump rally in Tampa, Florida. In his preliminary criticism, Younger acknowledged that he “cannot allow his music to be used as a ‘theme song’ for a divisive, un-American campaign of ignorance and hate,” in accordance with The New York Submit.
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Younger had beforehand stated that he had “nothing against” Trump utilizing his music legally.
“He actually got a license to use it,” he stated. “I mean, he said he did and I believe him … But if the artist who made it is saying you never spoke to them, if that means something to you, you probably will stop playing it. And it meant something to Donald and he stopped.”
Regardless of submitting this lawsuit, Younger went on to quietly and voluntarily dismiss the case in New York courts.
Trump sometimes ignores singers once they demand he cease utilizing his music. It stays to be seen whether or not he’ll heed Marr’s calls for, or proceed utilizing The Smiths’ songs throughout his rallies.
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