I hope they sue

BREAKING: The Statue of Liberty is seen weeping in the streets. Witnesses say she mumbled, ‘This is NOT what I signed up for in 1886.’ 🗽😢

And they know they can get away with it because they can outlast you in court. Gotta love our judicial system. 😞

They should Sue!!!

has carrie underwood changed her mind yet??

It’s a song about the birth of the lead singers child!!! I hope they can get them to stop.

I think we’re down to Kid Rock, Ted Nugent and the Village People 😂

With all the disapprovals, maybe 1600 Penn can get The Village People again... 😆

Not surprised. This administration lacks a lot of working brain cells

As they always do.

I sure wouldn't let them use mine!!

They might embrace your Schumer song though 😕

True 🙂

I love how the “party of law and order” and capitalism doesn’t respect intellectual property.

Perhaps the issue is intellectual ( a word they don’t truly understand) combined with their genuine belief that they can “grab” anything?

Glad they spoke out!!

And I learned something about what Closing Time really meant today. I thought it was more melancholy.

Call the infamous traitor Carrie Underwood

She's Likely Always Been On Their Side, She's An Evangelical Christian, lol.

Time for Kid Rock to rip off a few more Skynyrd tunes with shitty lyrics to glorify his lord and master, "the First and Foremost Felon In Charge"!

it was the same with Trump's presidential campaigns, it received a few orders from artists to cease using their music at his rallies

They don't have a single original thought in their fucking bloated heads, it's part of why they're so miserable all the time.

The Nugent-KidRock mashups can get you pretty far tho

Trump should just stick with Richard Wagner

Is there anything the White House isn't missing the point on these days?

Please stay on them, I am sure Kid Rock has a song FOTUS can use

Not shut out completely, Team Trump has secured the rights to use Judy Collins version of Send In The Clowns.

Trump and his coconspirators use it anyway to rub it in their faces, like everything else they all do, as it’s the party of forcing themselves on us.

Oh, no. Now I’ve got an irritating earworm.

I think they should be allowed to use the song 'Bring him home', but only if they promise to bring the statue of Liberty back home to France.

Why can't he just have Kid Rock come up with a song about something closing?

I hope they sue.

Don't the always miss the point?

No one who's decent wants to be associated with lies, hate, and cruelty.

"Really says something." It has been astutely noted that the Trump regime does not resemble N@z1 Germany as it does Vichy France: nasty, corrupt, incompetent, feeble, and reeking of decay.

He will use it anyway. He needs to stick to Kid Rock songs! 🤮🤮

They listen to music like they read the bible.

They are already bored with Ted Nugent and Kid Rock ??

They should just stick with Kid Rock and Lee Greenwood

Or…. You know…. The anthem

Don't forget Ted Nugent...and just about every purveyor of Butt Country.

I did forget Ted Nugent. Must’ve been a coping mechanism for my psychological well-being.

I get the necessity of a coping mechanism with respect to Ted Nugent...when I was a teenager, our neighbor, a wealthy burnout, would situate himself next to his pool every morning right after the conclusion of quiet hours, and blast Cat Scratch Fever nonstop for hours...my bedroom was adjacent lol.

And I love that song!!! I sing it all the time at work, when it comes up in my playlist!!!

It's not their music. They didn't write that. They benefitted from public schools, public air waves and the public buying the product. They don't get to decide how we use it.

When can I come round and take your stuff? Dumbest logic ever

Welcome to the right. youtu.be/0AMoBU7lFUA?...

🎶Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.🎵 I don’t know, I think how the White House wanted to use the song is rather appropriate. But that may be my demonic humor.

He’ll….they’ll find ways to use intimidation/extortion as mob bosses do.

they have Ted Nugent and Kid Rock. the problem is, even they don't want to listen to Ted Nugent or Kid Rock

... A convicted felon who grabs women by the pussy believes he can grab anything he wants ...

It’s about the birth of his child :)

I think they still have Vanilla Ice, Village People, and Berlin. Real A-list lineup, there.

He just likes to take and take. No giving.

Dear Artists, Get your attorney on speed dial. Be ready.

Most artists are rightly against their music being associated with fascism.

Trump not paying people or asking permission is pretty on brand.

The ones that do are total nutters!

When TayTay and the Stallion endorse or even twerk for you and you still lose. Really says something

That's what the village people used to say, too.

The original village people do not have the rights to YMCA. It is owned by one original member and the other original members have repeatedly denounced and spoken out against 47. They aren’t affiliated anymore, just the one guy. The other members lost the rights and therefor can’t have a legal say.

The tRUmp administration is just stealing from you, like the rest of us!

@semisonicband.bsky.social 's 'Closing Time' is my nightly reminder to take my meds & get ready to close down the day. Ick that tfg is using it.

Like Reagan and Born In the USA.

Why don’t they sue?

They no longer own the rights to their own music. They sold their catalogue. Probably prevents them from doing so.

Even dead artists said “No!” (Prince)

If they ask nicely, Motörhead would probably let them use "Traitor"

Republicans are tone deaf.

Did they use Closing Time in reference to all the government departments they are shutting down?

They _never_ ask.

Who wants to be associated with the orange turd, besides the maggots

Do they have any recourse? Or, if music has been published, is it available to all as long as the ASCAP fees are paid?

I think Benny Mardones- Into the Night, would be fitting..

I suspect one needs to possess a range of emotions not just hate to understand the song. That is my guess

They got the Snoop Doggy D-O-Uncle-T, though

Snoop dogg becoming lap dogg has to be one of the biggest disappointments of the century

There's always Cat Scratch Fever!!

Sue the shit out of them!

Who the hail is going to perform at the Kennedy Center? Dead Russians like Tchaikovsky?

Tchaikovsky would never.

You’re right

Good to hear!

They’ll always have YMCA I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

Well, nobody in their right mind would want their music to be associated with them, after all, plenty presidents have used songs without permission so often, especially when they don't get what the songs were written about or for...

Theme song for Trumps last day? Tesla bankruptcy?

Trump's last day? Easy. David Bowie's Dancing in the streets.

I heard some 1933 -1945 Germany singers have Somes songs perfect for Trump

Because they're too cheap to pay for it🤬

I love this song 🥰

Plus they don’t bother to ask shows their morals and respect for others. Theft is their modus operandi.

I was reading your constitution and was comparing it to the real world. The only thing that is still valid is your right to carry weapons to kill each other. Other than that, you can throw your constitution in the toilet. The voters allowed a Nazi Party to control everything. Congratulations!!

Unless you were born darker than white. In that case, no weapons either.

Geez thanks for telling us something we don't know. What purpose do you think this comment serves? We have 330 million people in the US, 77 million voted for Trump. Many of them clueless & indoctrinated. [We can talk about the non-voters but there aren't enough characters here to speak on that].

I guess there's always Three Blind Mice as an option. Or Mary Had a Little Lamb if they really want to keep with theme.

I wonder if those that performed at the inauguration are still feeling good about that decision.

Even though the possibility is slim, I think it would be very very very funny if somehow MAGA got their hands on Druschba Kollectiv's music. The response the band would give as left-leaning anarchists would be biblical.

Meet the village people. A Band that never made a hymn for Queer people. And if you say that they'll Sue you.

HMM... *Begins plotting*

Trump regime doctrine: what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine, too.

ya 4real,,👍💙🌏🖐🖤🐾🐾🖤🪶🐕

So they will just move on to the next artist. No punishment.

Even if you gave Trump and musk a spear they still wouldn't get the point XD

Missing the Point Entirely - The Trump Years

I’m sure they could allow them to use “get a grip”… #iykyk

Also, the line "time to go back to where you are from"....seems to be their tuning fork. No wonder they wanted to use it.

They get Kid Rock at all their rally's but they never use his music. That speaks volumes

They should just stick to Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and Toby Keith.

And yet all these artists do nothing to stop it from happening

What do you suggest they do?

Trump has bought licenses for ASCAP and BMI, like what bars and restaurants use, so he can use any song he wants. Artists can request single customer exceptions from their union against Trump and would then have legal grounds to sue. So far no artist to my knowledge has taken those steps.

Doesn't matter. Even WITH a license you can't use music in this way. www.ascap.com/help/ascap-l...

Right, but the artist has to claim the endorsement or political exception. ASCAP and BMI won’t automatically flag those.

I hope they sue.

And most people don’t like kid rock

It does, I agree - but still we allow them to burn this country down

Aww. I saw @semisonicband.bsky.social at 7th Street Entry way back in the day when they were called Pleasure and I'm so glad they're still stand-up guys.

I had the honor of exchanging messages in the old days of Twitter with Semisonic’s drummer, Professor Jacob Slichter. He is an amazing, kind person. That song is so life affirming. I’m sorry it was stolen this way. Glad they spoke up!

Semisonic, go get a lawyer and hit them with unlawful and unauthorized use of your music.

Unfortunately the lead singer sold away their catalogue to a music publishing group years ago..no legal action but a moral outrage nonetheless

Artists need to start putting pre-emptive injunctions (whatever the equivalent would be) on the government using their work. And sue like crazy when ignored.

I guess they have to stick to YMCA, Carrie Underwood, or Kid Rock! 🤣

Don’t forget that Eric Clapton . He’s no liberal .

Even he'd complain. He's old and needs the listen time for his pension

Eric Clapton, didn't know. Never listening to him again!

Most artists are not hate filled fascists. So they oppose Trump.

Can't they sue or send a cease & desist order?

Kid Rock and Ted Nugent are their entire repertoire...

Carrie Underwood

Par for the course with their plastic tastes in feminine beauty.

And also crappy overproduced music...

Maybe ask snoop For his back catalog he needs the money

The problem is often if artist is bound to a label they often times have no say in who gets to use it. Not sure at all about semisonic's contract but sometimes all they can do is whine because their label approved it.

The program at the Kennedy Center under Trump should be truly amazing... not!

I think the song writer for the Horst Wessels song is fine with them using his song though…

Semisonic is still a thing?

Many artists don’t want their music / songs used, because liars like 🍊🤡 distort the messages & he also thinks he doesn’t have to ask permission!

They never ask and don’t care about the real message. They bastardize it like they do everything else they touch.

Aww come on... they have... "checks notes* Tex Nugent

All they do is steal left and right.

Closing time 🎶Time for Trump to go back to the places he will be from (jail)🎶

We know you didn’t! ☮️💙💔

No one wants their music associated with that Old Orange Mussolini acting dumbass.

Yet they keep playing them.

Why didn't they get a lawyer?

I hat to say it but that song is cringe. Not MAGA cringe but cringe.

So when is Dropkick Murphys doing a “Closing Time” cover? 🤣

What? They can’t get a good Kid Rock ballad? What about Sboop dog? No Ted Nugent? Kanye?

Just sue them.

Hasn’t *Putain* sent over his Best of Russian hits-playlist yet?!

IT BLOWS MY MIND when artists SUPPORT fascism! Because fascism DOES NOT support Art! Good for @semisonicband.bsky.social

Can we all play that song on his last day?

We should just play it every day...as a manifestation tactic.

Or “You Ain’t Leaving (Thank God Are Ya)” by Toby Keith.

Well George, Ned Ungent & Rid Kock couldn't play for longer than 20 mins each! And would anyone pay to hear Lara Lips?

There is a radio program in Canada that talks about marketing (Under the influence) . They did an episode on campaign songs. One of the bits of trivia they threw in is that Trump is the president that has had the most bands tell him to stop using their music.

The orange stain is now, and always has been, a thief, a coward, and a liar. And those are his best traits.