No one wants to provide music for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. After Beyoncé and Celine Dion banned the Republican nominee from using their songs, it’s time for the Foo Fighters to announce that Trump has remixed their songs. My hero At a rally in Arizona without the band’s permission. A band representative said the group would seek copyright protection and that the money raised would be donated to the campaigns of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
In the video circulating on social media, the rock band’s song can be heard at Trump’s rally last Friday in Arizona, just as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the stage to announce his support for the Republican candidate, after he had dropped his own bid for the White House.
Questions began to arise on X (formerly Twitter) about whether the Foo Fighters had given permission for the song to be used. It didn’t take long for the band to give a short answer: “No.”
Let’s be clear. pic.twitter.com/gexHWjPMYh
– Foo Fighters (@foofighters) August 24, 2024
Two days later, a representative for the group said they were unaware the song was being used by Republicans. “The Foo Fighters were not asked for permission, and if they had, they would not have granted it,” the statement said. Sent to CNN.
As such, the band said it would donate all “property royalties resulting from the use” of the 1997 song to Kamala Harris’ campaign. Donald Trump has yet to respond to the incident.
During an appearance at a rally for Donald Trump on Friday night, failed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the stage to the Foo Fighters’ song “My Hero.”@FooFighters Say Trump and Kennedy used the song without their permission.pic.twitter.com/7ASGsPtcsY
— Consequences (@consequences) August 24, 2024
The Foo Fighters join Beyoncé and Celine Dion who have already banned Donald Trump from using their songs again at presidential campaign rallies. The former president used freedomone of Kamala Harris’ official campaign songs that was licensed by Beyoncé.
Celine Dion announced, in a statement published on social media, that she did not allow it to be used. My heart will go on He made a joke about using that particular song, which was part of the soundtrack for Titanic. “seriously, who “Song?” the Canadian singer wrote.
Earlier this year, The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr reacted in the same way to a video that went viral on social media in which he was heard saying: please, please, please, let me have what I want At a Trump rally. “I never in a million years would have thought this would happen. Think about this shit now,” he wrote on social media.
This is not the first time Donald Trump has faced similar problems regarding the use of songs. In 2018, when Rihanna, Aerosmith and the Prince family were also president of the United States, they banned him from reproducing the artists’ works.
Later in the 2020 presidential race, Tom Petty’s family issued a statement barring Republicans from playing again. I won’t go back downEnsuring that the singer would never support a “campaign of hate”. That same year, they were joined by the Rolling Stones, Linkin Park and Neil Young.
Unlike Donald Trump, several artists expressed their support for Kamala Harris last week during the Democratic convention, including John Legend, Patti La Belle, and Stevie Wonder. The event closed with Pink and her daughter Willow performing. What about us?The national anthem was performed by the Chick Girls, who also performed at the last conference in 2020, which was held online, due to the pandemic.
