Not everyone likes to have intercourse with the divisive ex-president of the USA, especially not when they don’t even know they are having intercourse with him. Donald Trump has already kicked the dust with so many musicians, as he unknowingly used their songs in his campaigns, that a festival is slowly coming out of the list, in which the band The Smiths has now joined.
If you happen to wander into a rally in support of Donald Trump in South Dakota, it’s easy to hear the band. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want his composition entitled. At least that’s how it was until now.
However, the situation has changed now, as the news of the song’s “Trump tour” reached the guitarist’s ears, which surprised the musician, to say the least.
He surprised everyone
ABC journalist Soorin Kim was covering the scene when he was also affected by the ringing number as usual. As he saw that the situation was not an isolated incident, he was forced to express his dismay. THE Mirror this is how he quotes one of the journalist’s social media posts:
In practice, hearing The Simths at Trump rallies so often in 2024 that you absolutely do not expect it.
Kim even posted a video for the post, in which the song can already be heard at an event in August 2023. However, news of this spread on the Internet, and it didn’t take long for the information to reach the band itself. Johnny Marr, the band’s former guitarist, was a little freaked out. The Mirror quotes the musician as:
Er… okay… Okay. I never thought in a million years that this would ever happen. This bullshit needs to be stopped right now.
It’s not an isolated case
The piquancy of the story is that Johnny Marr and The Smiths are not the first “victims” of the rather mixed musical taste of the Trump campaign team. In 2018, Steven Tyler also sent a harsh message to the president at the time to stop the illegal use of Aerosmith’s music. The two parties already had a falling out in 2015, when the band’s mega-hit, Dream On Trump’s campaign team played the song. In the post, the singer said that
on his part, this is not a political issue, only his music was not written for parties.
It was a similar situation with Rihanna, whose Don’t Stop the Music was used by the former president at an event in Tennessee. The singer did not escape having to correspond with the politician either.
After this, it is perhaps not surprising that there are also a few examples of inheritance battles. Such were the cases of Prince and Tom Petty, who could no longer fight for their own songs, so the legal heirs tried to prevent Donald Trump from taking the tracks of the legendary musicians.
Although there are musicians who like to lend their faces, names and art to politicians’ campaigns, not everyone wants to be involved in politics, at least not in this way.
Of course, Donald Trump is not the only one who has had similar cases, just think back to the Twisted Sister lawsuit – when an Australian politician copied and used one of the band’s songs without permission.
This case is also funny because the band’s singer even let Donald Trump, at the beginning of his political career, use the We’re Not Gonna Take It song – which he later withdrew.
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