Make America Great Again Lyrics Joy Villa
Musicians and Donald Trump accept a fraught relationship. From ordering him to stop playing their music to calling out his politics, some of the highest-contour artists in the earth have aligned themselves against, the US president.
While several prominent singers have been calling out Trump since every bit far back as 1989, when he was a promoter for the Rolling Stones (Keith Richards was non a fan), his fourth dimension as president has prompted many more than to criticise him at shows, write protestation songs near him, or mock him from their social media accounts.
From the end of his entrada to Kanye W coming together Trump in the Oval Office this month, hither's an all-encompassing timeline of some of the most notable moments involving Trump and the music manufacture.
2016
Oct
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After months of statements expressing the Rolling Stone'due south distaste at Trump using their music at his rallies, frontman Mick Jagger explains why they are unable to stop him from doing information technology.
"When you appear in America… if you're in a public identify like Madison Square Garden or a theatre, y'all tin can play whatsoever music you desire, and you tin't be stopped," he says.
November
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Trump struggles to observe artists willing to perform at his inauguration. After a written report that his representatives are looking for LBGT musicians, Elton John – who commented, when Trump used 'Tiny Dancer' in his campaign, "I'm not a Republican in a million years" – swiftly rules himself out. On a potential inauguration performance, he quips: "Why not ask Ted f***ing Nugent?"
Kanye Due west voices support for Trump during a lengthy bluster at one of his own concerts, maxim if he had voted, "I would accept voted for Trump". He is admitted to infirmary presently after the show and diagnosed with exhaustion.
December
Andrea Bocelli reportedly backs out of a functioning subsequently being approached by Trump, who is a huge fan and once booked Bocelli to perform at a private party at his Florida club in 2010. While Bocelli himself did non comment on whether he was ever going to perform, his fans were in uproar at the possibility, claiming he would exist "selling his soul to the devil".
Kanye Due west meets Trump in the anteroom of Trump Tower, New York, and later tweets that he wanted to discuss "multicultural issues".
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"These bug included bullying, supporting teachers, modernising curriculums and violence in Chicago," he wrote in another tweet. "I feel it is important to have a straight line of communication with our future president if nosotros truly want change."
2017
January
With Trump's inauguration looming ever closer, his team become increasingly desperate to book some bodily "names", following his promise of "plenty of pic and entertainment stars".
There are enough of artists who have said no by at present, including Charlotte Church, Rebecca Ferguson, Ice T, Elton John, the Dixie Chicks, Adam Lambert, and a Bruce Springsteen tribute band. Jennifer Holliday pulls out after a backlash from her LGBT fanbase.
Vocalist and role player John Legend has a proposition for why Trump is struggling. "Artistic people tend to decline bigotry and hate," he says. "We tend to be more liberal-minded. When we run into somebody that's preaching division and hate and bigotry, it's unlikely that he'll become a lot of creative people that want to be associated with him."
Charlotte Church building is even more than blunt, criticising Trump'southward squad for even daring to ask her: "A uncomplicated cyberspace search would bear witness I think yous're a tyrant," she writes on Twitter.
Rebecca Ferguson says she volition perform on the status that she sings "Foreign Fruit" – the protest poem against racism that was popularised by Billie Holliday. For some reason, Trump'due south team don't take Ferguson upwardly on the offer.
Trump eventually manages to get the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Jackie Evancho (an America's Got Talent finalist), 3 Doors Downwardly and Jon Voight to appear at the ceremony.
Nancy Sinatra responds to Trump having her male parent'due south song "My Way" performed at the ceremony by commenting: "Merely remember the first line of the vocal". The "Bang Bang" singer is referring to the line: "And now, the end is near."
Past this time, several artists have begun to release protestation songs against Trump. Gorillaz break a six-twelvemonth absence with a new anti-Trump song, "Hallelujah Money". Arcade Fire release "I Give You Power" – a collaboration with gospel singer Mavis Staples, which frontman Win Butler says is about "a feeling of solidarity – to not experience powerless and focus on what we can do as individuals and endeavour to do our part."
Lily Allen makes a playlist for Trump, which includes her own song "F*** You", Rihanna's rail "Russian Roulette", and Green 24-hour interval'southward "American Idiot".
Moby performs a benefit prove on the same night as Trump's inauguration, with all proceeds going to the Downtown Women'southward Heart in Los Angeles, the LGBT Youth Middle, and the Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights.
Feb
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Depeche Fashion return with their first new music in 4 years: a politically charged track titled "Where'south the Revolution" that appears to criticise the US for electing Trump equally president. Vocalizer Dave Gahan performs baking lyrics including the line: "Who'southward making your decisions? You or your religion? / Your government, your countries? Yous patriotic junkies."
The 59th Grammy awards is ane of the well-nigh political in the music award ceremony's history, and features anti-Trump statements from the likes of Highly Suspect, Jennifer Lopez, Paris Jackson, Beyonce, A Tribe Chosen Quest and Katy Perry.
Singer Joy Villa is criticised for wearing a red, white and blueish clothes with "Make America Great Once more" on the front and "Trump" on the dorsum on the Grammys ruddy carpet.
Kanye Due west deletes his tweets about coming together with Donald Trump in December, and is reportedly unhappy with the president'due south first two weeks in the White House.
March
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Snoop Dogg causes uproar with his music video for "Lavender", which shows an actor dressed as Trump with a clown confront.
At the video's climax, the clown Trump is held at gunpoint, and Snoop pulls the trigger to reveal a red flag with the give-and-take "Blindside" written on it.
The rapper says of the video: "The whole earth is clownin' effectually, and [the] concept is then right on betoken with the fine art management and the reality, because if you really await at some of these female parent***ers, they are clowns."
Trump responds by suggesting Snoop should be arrested for pretending to shoot him and asks what the reaction would exist if it had been a caricature of Obama.
The president'southward lawyer says he is "shocked" past the video and demands an apology from Snoop: "There's admittedly nothing funny about an assassination effort on a president, and I'chiliad really shocked at him, because I idea he [Snoop] was better than that," he says.
Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon defends Trump, claiming he's definitely not racist and could even exist a "possible friend".
"What I dislike is the left-wing media in America are trying to smear the gars every bit racist and that's completely not truthful," he says.
"There are many, many issues with him equally a human but he's non that, and there might exist a chance something expert will come out of that situation considering he terrifies politicians."
April
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In an interview with The Contained, John Fable speaks about Trump's election and suggests an interesting reason for why artists are less vocal about politics than they were in previous decades.
"In the Sixties and Seventies information technology was much more mutual," he observes. "I think there was no sense of urgency until he [Trump] got elected, and now people are genuinely worried about the future of the state."
He likewise says he believes Trump volition be impeached – "now information technology's just a thing of when Congress has the guys to practise it".
Bruce Springsteen releases a new protest vocal "That's What Makes Us Dandy" that brands Trump as a "con man". The song includes the lyrics: "Don't tell me a lie, and sell it as fact / I've been down that road before, and I own't going back."
May
It is announced that Toby Keith, celebrated in Middle America for his songs almost communal drinking and patriotism, will perform a free, male person-only concert in Saudi arabia to mark Trump'due south visit.
The Oklahoma-born vocalist oft raises eyebrows for his nationalist sentiments, which some critics have branded jingoistic. He seems a peculiar option to perform in Saudi arabia, which enforces a strict estimation of Islam including a full prohibition of alcohol. Keith'southward songs include "I Love This Bar", "Whiskey Girl", "Get Boozer and Be Somebody", "Drinks After Piece of work" and "Boozer Americans".
June
Rapper Nas writes an emotional open up letter to Trump which says, "We all know a racist is in part."
"Whatever president may exist in office doesn't affect my work directly," he continues. "The way he affects people is what affects me. I observe what'due south going on and that goes into my creative process. The person himself, I'yard not caught up with. I don't even accept time for Trump or Pence. I don't give a f***."
July
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Russian singer Emin Agalarov is caught upward in the centre of a huge political controversy subsequently his publicist, Rob Goldstone, is revealed to accept offered to set upwards a call between Agalarov and Donald Trump Jr, purportedly on behalf of Emin, to discuss information confronting Hillary Clinton that would assist Trump in his presidential campaign.
Trump's relationship with Agalarov's billionaire father Aras, who has ties with Russian president Vladimir Putin, has been under scrutiny because Trump inked a multi-meg dollar bargain with the Agalarovs to bring his Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013. On the red carpet at Miss Us 2013, Trump called the family unit "the almost powerful people in all of Russian federation".
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A British singer claims he was deported from the U.s. for impersonating Trump onstage. Peter Bywaters, pb vocalizer of Peter & the Test Tube Babies, alleges he was interrogated for half-dozen hours by border command afterwards flying into San Francisco for a music festival, where he was shown photos of himself dressed every bit Trump at a festival in Germany. His merits is denied by border control officials, who say he was deported because he had the incorrect visa.
September
John Legend argues that Trump's attacks on other public figures is an case of psychological projection and blame shifting.
The outspoken artist brands the United states of america president an "embarrassment" to America and lambasts his approval rating, which has dropped to 34 per cent, equally a prestigious polling site also deems him more unpopular than any other president in the history of modern polling.
Oct
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Snoop Dogg takes aim at Trump in a new track titled "Brand America Crip Again", an obvious have on Trump's trademark entrada slogan "Make America Peachy Once more".
In the opening lines Snoop says: "The president says he wants to make America great once more. F*** that due south**t, we're going to make America crip once more."
Macklemore leads chants of "F*** Donald Trump" at a concert in Arizona and performs his YG collaboration, "F*** Donald Trump Part 2", which features the lyric: "How did he make information technology this far? How the f*** did it brainstorm? / A Trump rally sounds like Hitler and Berlin."
Frank Sinatra's former manager releases a book revealing the legendary singer once told Trump to "go f*** yourself" in 1990 after existence told by the old business magnate, who was opening his casino in Atlantic City, that his performance costs were "a fiddling rich".
Nov
Snoop posts, so deletes, an image on Instagram in the way of Ice Cube's 1991 record cover for Death Certificate, showing him continuing over a dead body covered with the American flag, and a proper name tag attached to the foot reading "Trump".
Dec
Morrissey causes controversy in an interview with German paper Der Spiegel with his comments on Trump. Asked whether he would push a push that would crusade the president to "driblet dead", he answers: "I would, for the safety of the human race… I think he's a terrible, terrible scourge." The former Smiths singer and then attempts to deny making the remark, which prompts Der Spiegel to reveal the full audio of the interview, revealing he did in fact make the comment.
2018
January
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Chance the Rapper is amidst the musicians boycotting Trump'due south commencement Land of the Marriage address.
February
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Hillary Clinton appears aslope Cardi B, DJ Khaled, Snoop Dogg, Cher and John Legend in a comedy skit broadcast at the Grammy Awards.
The onetime presidential candidate and Secretary of State performs a dramatic reading of the book Fire & Fury, in order to win side by side year's award for Best Spoken Word Album.
March
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Eagles of Death Metal frontman and Bataclan attack survivor Jesse Hughes brands the March for our Lives protest in the U.s. "pathetic" and shares an image with the caption: "Donald Trump will be your president for 7 more years". He later deletes the posts.
Apr
Shania Twain performing alive in 2018
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Shania Twain apologises over comments made in a Guardian interview, where she unsaid that she would have voted for Trump in the 2016 election.
The Canadian singer says the question caught her "off guard" and regrets not adding more than context to her answer, explaining that she does not hold "any common moral beliefs" with the current president.
Trump cheers Kanye Due west for calling him "my brother", proverb the bulletin is "very cool".
May
Trump travels to Tennessee to boost the Senate candidacy of Marsha Blackburn and takes aim at Jay Z over his support for Hillary Clinton: "The just style she [Clinton] filled upwards the arena was to get Jay Z, and his lanuage was so filthy that it made me like the most clean-cut human existence on earth."
June
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend make a $288,000 donation to ACLU to "Make Trump's Birthday Groovy Again", amid backlash over the Trump assistants policy of separating parents and children crossing the US border from United mexican states.
Bruce Springsteen condemns Trump's border policy in a interruption from script during a show at New York's Walter Kerr Theatre, branding the treatment of families "inhumane" and performing his 1995 protest song "The Ghost of Tom Joad".
July
Selena Gomez speaks out over the US-Mexico edge situation. The singer and actress, who is Mexican-American and was born in Texas, says Trump's "aught tolerance" policy is "extremely disheartening" and that it "definitely has been affecting then many people who are shut to me".
Ahead of Trump'due south visit to the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, "American Idiot" hits the charts, condign the No.i unmarried on Amazon and also actualization on the iTunes Summit 10, following a fan campaign.
Trump'southward 4 July celebrations are something of a disaster. Where Obama hosted arena acts including Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and The Killers, Trump manages to get two American Idol finalists, and classical pianist Lola Astanova.
The 1975 reference Trump in their new song "Love Information technology If We Made It" by quoting his infamous comments in the lyrics: "Immigration liberal kitsch, kneeling on a pitch, 'I moved on her like a bowwow!!'" and "Excited to exist indicted, unrequited, firm with seven pools, 'thanks Kanye, very cool'."
August
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Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler orders Trump to stop using the band'south music, and sends a cease and desist letter via his lawyers telling him non to utilize their song "Livin' on the Edge" at campaign rallies.
"This is not almost Democrats vs. Republicans," Tyler says in a statement. "I practise not let anyone use my songs without my permission. My music is for causes, non for political campaigns or rallies. Protecting copyright and songwriters is what I've been fighting for even earlier this current assistants took office."
Kanye W appears on Jimmy Kimmel's chat prove and appears to exist stumped after the Television receiver host asks him, referring to W's famous 2005 merits that President George Westward Bush "doesn't care nigh black people"… "What makes you lot call up that Donald Trump does?"
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Show all 10A calendar week after the appearance, West tells radio station 107.WGCI Chicago: "I feel that [Trump] cares about the fashion black people experience near him, and he would similar for black people to like him like they did when he was cool in the rap songs and all this."
Eminem attacks Trump on his surprise anthology Kamikaze, rapping on "The Ringer": "[Trump] sent the Hugger-mugger Service to meet in person / To see if I really think of hurtin' him" and: "I sympathise with the people this evil serpent sold the dream to that he's deserted."
September
Snoop Dogg launches an expletive-ridden attack on Trump and his "racist" supporters and besides criticises Kanye West for his political views.
Speaking on Sirius XM he says: "I don't give a f***, I tell 'em direct up female parent***er. If y'all like that n***a you mother***ing racist."
"N***a, he drew the lines. He drew the female parent***ing lines," he connected. "Earlier him there were no lines. Everybody was everybody, we respected everything, nosotros didn't trip, but n***a when you drew the line and outset pointing mother***ers out and singling them out n***a, f*** y'all then n***a. You and them."
Turning his ire to W, he added: "Kanye too. Don't forget about him too. F*** you as well. Throw him in the bag, he right in with them mother***ers."
Paul McCartney uses a song on his new album to attack Trump. "Despite repeated warnings of dangers up ahead," he sings on "Despite Repeated Warnings" from his 18th solo album Egypt Station, "the captain won't be listening to what's been said." Later, he adds, "Those who shout the loudest, may not always exist the smartest."
Kanye Westward goes on SNL and delivers a full-blown bluster to the live audience, despite no longer being on-air, where he claimed ninety per cent of rappers are liberal and that it is easy for things to seem ane-sided.
Pete Davidson criticises Kanye West 'Beingness mentally ill is not an alibi to human action like a jack*ss'
October
Taylor Swift breaks her long-held political silence to denounce Tennessee Republican candidate Marsha Blackburn and endorse two Democrats.
In a powerful post on Instagram she writes: "I have and ever volition cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the homo rights I believe we all deserve in this land.
"I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any class of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism nosotros nevertheless see in this land towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent."
Trump responds past challenge he likes Swift'southward music "25 per cent less" after her Democrat endorsement – an unusually tame response that suggests he is very aware of the popular star'south enormous, and increasingly registered-to-vote, fanbase.
Lana Del Rey tells Kanye West his back up for Trump is "a loss for the civilisation" and accuses him of having "delusions of grandeur" and "extreme issues with narcissism" which she suggests he shares with the president.
Due west meets with Trump at the Oval Office and goes on several uninterrupted rants, including 1 where he suggests he may run for president after Trump departs from the White House.
Melania Trump is offended past TI'southward new video, which features a lookalike of the First Lady stripping in the Oval Part.
November
Pharrell Williams sends a legal warning to Trump afterwards he uses the song "Happy" on the 24-hour interval of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. Pharrell's lawyer noted that at that place was nothing "happy" most "the tragedy inflicted upon our country on Saturday" and said "no permission was granted for your [Trump'south] use of this vocal for this purpose".
According to the letter of the alphabet, Williams will "non allow" Trump to use music from his back catalogue at any future issue.
Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose slammed the Trump campaign, calling them "s—-numberless" for using the legendary rock band'south music during the president'south political rallies.
In a Twitter rant, Rose says that the ring, "similar a lot of artists opposed to the unauthorised use of their music at political events", has formally asked that their music not be used "at Trump rallies or Trump associated events", but claims that, despite the asking, the campaign "is using loopholes in the various venues' blanket performance licenses" and playing music without the artists' permission.
RIhanna also calls out Trump for using her song "Don't Stop the Music" at a rally alee of the midterm elections. She brands the rallies "tragic" and later sends a stop and desist letter ordering him to stop using her music at political events.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/trump-music-rihanna-pharrell-songs-us-midterms-2018-rallies-latest-a8619566.html
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