Posted on 11/05/2018 9:44:10 PM PST by Jyotishi
After Pharrell, Rihanna has objected to US President Donald Trump using her music at his campaign rallies ahead of the midterms.
The singer took to Twitter to protest after she learnt that her hit track "Don't Stop the Music" was reportedly played at a campaign rally Sunday for Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Rihanna was tipped off by Washington Post White House bureau chief Philip Rucker.
"(Neither) me nor my people would ever be at or around one of those tragic rallies. Thanks for the heads up Philip (sic)!" she tweeted her reply to Rucker.
The development comes after Rihanna endorsed Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum on Instagram.
Last week, Pharrell Williams sent a cease-and-desist notice to Trump after his popular track "Happy" was played at the US president's political rally, the same day of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
Other artistes who have forbidden the POTUS to using their music include Neil Young, Adele, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Queen, George Harrison, Luciano Pavarotti, Steven Tyler and Prince.
Why not play music by the artists who support him? (Or, at least, the artists who aren’t complaining?)
Mr. President, please play their music! Let’s support them in return.
“Rihanna was tipped off by Washington Post White House bureau chief Philip Rucker.”
The RAT is a rat.
O solo Mio! non Pavarroti??
they did a
ton of songs riffing on “keep on rocking in the free world” just to mess with him LOL
O Rly?
Why is it then that I hear ‘You can’t always get what you want’ as the closing song at a Trump rally?
Speak for yourself.
I don’t like either of them.
Well, I’ll never buy her albums!
I heard them playing Streisand. Gave me a chuckle.
My understanding is that if you pay the standard royalty they cant stop you.
Trump coordinators can avoid this by searching out artists of like minds and leave these fake phony frauds of so called music these days to the snowflake crybabies and the brain dead.
these fools have no say-so over who rents their songs whenever they have a standard contract with ASCAP ...
Prince is pretty dead too last time anyone checked.
If her songs were for sale and Trump bought a license to play them, nothing she can do but stomp her feet.
I love it. I love that he plays music by Leftists against their wishes.
I hope he keeps doing it until they turn purple in hatred and frustration and their eyes bug out.
Trump knows how to troll them!
You can play copyrighted music in the public domain as long as you secure permission from the artist and pay appropriate royalty fees.””’
I don’t think anyone needs permission from the artist.
Once the artist puts the product out, the fees have to be paid....nothing else.
Otherwise, an ‘artist’ could hold up the use for as long as they wanted.
I saw in another article that it was "the estate of Prince" that complained (after taking the money, of course). I'm sure it's that same with the others.
If you can make a song from that crap that people will buy, there has to be some type of genius in there.
You no longer need to sell any product to have a “hit”.
75% of the industry is streaming now.
Drake got a platinum ranking with NO sales.
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