Trump is in the Music News… Again
Today’s Artist of the Day: Aaron Parks
Trump is in the music news again, that wiley guy. We'll talk about it.
So I'm sure if you clicked this link, you're probably wondering what did Trump do this time, and this one's kind of blatant one, honestly. just recently at the Republican National Convention, he used two versions of the song Hallelujah, which he did not adhere to the request of the Cohen family and not using their song. So let's take it back for just one moment, previously I covered him not obtaining the sync license to use some of Neil Young's material, and his lawyers took action against Trump, and I'm pretty sure that's still being worked out. This time around, he decides to ask the Cohen family for the use of Hallelujah or his people do, and of course, Leonard Cohen's family said, Oh, hell no.
And then Trump or the convention or whoever decided it was okay, just decided to say, oh well, they probably won't do anything, right, let's just go ahead and use the song anyway, and so they did... Not once, but twice.
So now the Cohen family is very upset and they are not liking the fact that their song that was written by Leonard Cohen was used in such a manner to prop up Trump, so now they're gonna sue them. The legal representative from Cuenca State had a really interesting little dig though at Trump to this whole thing. And I'll tell you about it, she said that they were very surprised and dismayed that he went ahead and used the song, but had another song that they would have probably approved, that they would have just asked for it. That song is called You Want It Darker. And I had to go look up the lyrics to this song because I was kind of curious about this hidden message they were trying to send, check this out:
If you are the dealer, I'm out of the game.
If you are the healer, it means I'm broken and lame
if thine is the glory, mine must be the shame
You want it darker… We kill the flame.
Listen, there's no reason why Trump should have used this song. I mean, there's plenty of other songs he could have used, he was just kind of being a bully on this one, there's plenty of people out there that support him that write music that I'm sure he could have used a song and it would have been great. And it would have been allowed and all the things, but he just chose to push forward with this song, and if you ask somebody and they say No, and then you wanna go ahead and do it again. Anyway, that's kind of dumb.