Representatives for most of the artists have questioned Trump’s unauthorized use of their music in his marketing campaign.
Swedish pop group ABBA has requested US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s marketing campaign to cease enjoying its songs at his marketing campaign occasions, saying they didn’t have permission to make use of the songs.
After enjoying lots of its best-known songs, together with “Dance Queen,” “Cash, Cash, Cash” and “Winner Takes All,” at a Trump rally in Minnesota final month, the band’s file label introduced on Monday 4 issued a press release.
“Along with ABBA members, we’ve got found that movies utilizing ABBA music at Trump occasions have been launched, and we demand the rapid removing of such use,” file label Common Music stated in a information launch.
This is not the primary time outstanding artists have taken difficulty with the unauthorized use of their work in Trump’s political campaigns. Earlier this month, the household of soul and funk artist Isaac Hayes threatened authorized motion in opposition to Trump, accusing him of utilizing the musician’s songs with out authorization.
In July, a reporter for Swedish outlet Svenska Dagbladet reported that “Winner Takes All” was performed throughout a Trump marketing campaign occasion in Minnesota, with a 10-minute clip of ABBA performing their most well-known track proven on a giant display after which .
In March this 12 months, the property of Irish singer Sinead O’Connor additionally requested Trump to cease utilizing the well-known insurgent singer’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” in his marketing campaign.
“It’s no exaggeration to say that Sinead can be disgusted, harm and insulted if her work was misrepresented on this means by somebody she herself referred to as the ‘biblical satan.’ As guardians of her legacy, we ask Donald Trump and his associates instantly stopped utilizing her music.
Well-known singers together with Tom Petty, Adele, Rem and Celine Dion have voiced related complaints through the years.
Earlier this month, Trump additionally shared faux synthetic intelligence photographs on social media claiming that celebrity Taylor Swift supported him.
