Adele didn't give Donald Trump permission to use her music at rallies

The Republican frontrunner has consistently
played Adele’s smash hit "Rolling In The
Deep"Adele has told Donald Trump that he does
not have permission to use her songs at
campaign rallies after fans expressed
their anger that the Presidential hopeful
was using the singer’s hits as his warm-
up music.
The Republican frontrunner has
consistently played Adele’s smash hit
"Rolling In The Deep", with its “we could
have had it all” refrain, to stoke up the
atmosphere at campaign events before
his appearance.

Trump, an Adele fan who attended her New
York concert last year, has also played
Skyfall , the singer’s James Bond theme
(“when it crumbles, we will stand tall, face it
all together”) after delivering his apocalyptic
stump speech about America’s future.
Adele’s fans have expressed anger at
Trump’s appropriation of her music for his
campaign. “Don't suppose he asked for her
endorsement. Hopefully she's objected,”
tweeted one.
Adele has now broken her silence over the
association and made it clear that she does
not endorse Trump’s use of her music.
“Noooooo!! Not Adele!! Must Trump ruin that
too?!,” asked one fan. “I think she's cringing
as much as we are ... wish he would drown
in the deep. The bigot,” wrote another. Others
asked if Adele was being paid for the use of
her music by Trump.
Adele has now broken her silence over the
association and made it clear that she does
not endorse Trump’s use of her music. “Adele
has not given permission for her music to be
used for any political campaigning,” a
spokesman for the singer told The
Independent .


Trump’s rival for the Republican nomination,
Mike Huckabee, has also tried to cash in on
Adele’s popularity. Huckabee, trailing the
field, posted a cover of Adele's “Hello” on
Twitter and YouTube, featuring lyrics about
the Iowa caucus and his rivals. Due to a
claim from the copyright holder of the song,
the audio for the post has been muted.
Adele has preferred to stay out of political
debates, since making a 2011 statement that
she was a “Labour girl.”



Fans noted that her songs were hardly
appropriate for the Trump campaign.
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has ordered
Trump to stop using the power ballad Dream
On at campaign events.
Attorneys for Tyler sent a second cease-and-
desist letter to Trump’s campaign committee.
It said that Trump does “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”.



Adele has yet to go that far. Fans noted that
her songs were hardly appropriate for the
Trump campaign. Some noted the “You're
gonna wish you never had met me” line in
Rolling In The Deep. “This is the end,” quoting
the opening line of Skyfall, wrote one Twitter
user, after the song was played at Trump’s
Iowa event.
Trump previously annoyed Adele fans after
he “cut the line” to get to his seat, when he
attended her exclusive performance at the
Radio City Music Hall last November.
Musicians have frequently had cause to
complain over politicians hijacking their
music. REM frontman Michael Stipe objected
to the use of the band’s 1984 song It’s the
End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel
Fine) by Trump and the Texas senator Ted
Cruz, another 2016 candidate. Bruce
Springsteen objected to Ronald Reagan’s use
of Born in the USA in 1984.
Meanwhile indie band Vampire Weekend have
publicly endorsed the Democrat hopeful
Bernie Sanders. The group joined Sanders on
stage at an Iowa students rally and sang a
cover of Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your
Land with the left-leaning Vermont Senator.