The Prince estate isn’t the first to rain, purple or otherwise, on Trump’s parade.
In fact, there’s a long history of musicians fighting with politicians over their rights to use songs on the campaign trail. President Trump, though, has been deemed notably discordant with the images many artists wish to portray.
Mick Jagger learned this the hard way after the Rolling Stones repeatedly asked Trump to “cease all use” of their songs. Jagger conceded artists “can’t stop” people from playing their songs during a Twitter Q&A a month before the 2016 presidential election. “They can play what they want,” he said. R.E.M., Adele, Ozzy Osbourne, Rihanna and Pharrell Williams are among the ranks of artists unhappy about being played at Trump events. But politicians on both sides of the aisle have been called out by performers for using their songs.
— Cyndi Lauper January 12, 2012 A majority of these cases, though, do center on artist complaints against Republicans.
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