The record-breaking star joins long list of musicians including Neil Young, REM and Aerosmith who have asked the presidential hopeful to leave their songs alone. Donald may be a fan of Adele, but the pop star is no fan of the Republican presidential frontrunner. The
outspoken candidate, who is facing his first electoral test in the Iowa
caucus, has been using Adele’s hits Rolling in the Deep and Skyfall,
the singer’s James Bond theme, at his political rallies.
Trump’s
appropriation of Adele’s music has perplexed some of her fans. One fan
tweeted she was “offended on Adele’s behalf”, while another asked: “Does
Adele know that Donald Trump plays her songs at his rallies? I have a
feeling she would not be pleased.”
The property tycoon, who is
known to millions of Americans through the US version of The Apprentice,
annoyed many Adele fans when he jumped the queue at a concert she gave
at the Radio City Music Hall in November. Now the singer has become the latest pop star to tell Trump to stop pinching her tunes for his campaign.
“Adele has not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning,” her spokesman said.
That
should come as no surprise to the Trump campaign. In 2011, Adele called
David Cameron “a wally”, describing herself as a “Labour girl through
and through”.
Attorneys for Steven Tyler(Aerosmith)
had earlier sent a cease and desist letter to Trump’s campaign
committee, which said Trump did “not have our client’s permission to use
Dream On” or any of Tyler’s other songs and that it “gives the false
impression that he is connected with, or endorses, Mr Trump’s
presidential bid”.
