Donald Trump campaign’s payment for use of Foo Fighters song goes to Kamala Harris
Add Foo Fighters to the growing list list of musicians marked by the presidential campaign for the Republican Party’s nomination Donald Trump. As widely expectedOn Friday, the former president joined the former independent candidate on stage. Robert F. Kennedy, sonpart of their currently shared campaign plan stymie democratic candidate by Kamala Harris White House Ambitions. Less predictable was the Trump campaign’s decision to introduce an accused sexual assaulter (oh, sorry, I should be specified-I about RFK, Jr.) with the song “My Hero,” the Foo Fighters’ song that celebrates the most ordinary things in us.
At an event Friday in Arizona, Kennedy confirmed that he would support Trump as he pauses—but does not end—his campaign and suggested that, Associated Press reportedthat “Trump offered him a job if he returned to the White House.” The son has not lost hope that he can still win the presidential election, saying female Washington Post that thing If “no candidate wins 270 electoral votes, which is entirely possible—in fact, our poll today shows them tied at 269-269—I could still end up in the White House in a freak election.” So far, there has been no news of a quid pro quo offer from a future President Kennedy to Trump.
When Kennedy took the stage Friday to officially sign the deal with Trump, the loudspeakers played the 1998 Foo Fighters song. Was the intent to convey that RFK was Trump’s hero, or vice versa? No one knows, but we do know that the Foo Fighters weren’t happy about it.
Through X (formerly Twitter), Foo Fighters posted a screenshot of an exchange between their account and another user’s account, in which Dave Grohl– The main band has confirmed that the Trump campaign is not allowed to use their songs for campaign purposes.
In a statement reported on via Weekly Entertainment and others, the band confirmed through a spokesperson that they “were not asked for permission, and if they were, they would not have granted it.” Any royalties generated from Trump’s use of the song will be donated to Harris-Tim Walz campaign, the Spokesperson said.
Foo Fighters aren’t the first artists to distance themselves from the Trump campaign, nor are they the first to criticize a campaign for using the song. Two weeks ago, Celine Dion Call out former president for using Titanic theme song “My Heart Will Go On,” said that She “does not approve of this use or any similar use.”
And earlier this week, a Trump campaign spokesman Steven Truong used by Beyonce The song “Freedom”—a hymn widely understood as allowed to use by the Harris campaign—as a background music for the scene of the former president. After Beyonce’s camp reported to be threatened legal action, video removed. According to USA TODAYOther artists who say Trump has appropriated their work include the Village People (Trump frequently uses their 1978 hit “YMCA”) and the estate of Isaac Hayes, which has sought $3 million in royalties for the unauthorized use of Hayes’s Sam & Dave classic, “Hold On, I’m Comin.”
Meanwhile, in 2008, Foo Fighters dealt with a similar issue with the use of the song—this time, in Republican Senator John McCain’s unsuccessful bid for the United States presidency. After McCain’s campaign adopted “My Hero” as its theme song, The band replied, “It is frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to represent the American people has consistently shown such disrespect for creativity and intellectual property.”
“The saddest thing about this is that ‘My Hero’ was written as an ode to the ordinary and their extraordinary potential,” Foo Fighters continued at the time. “The fact that it was appropriated without our knowledge and used in a way that distorts the original sentiment of the lyrics only tarnishes the song.”
