Add Adele to the list of musicians who don’t want Donald Trump using their music at his campaign events.
“Adele has not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning,” a representative for the British pop star told Entertainment Weekly Monday.
Trump has regularly blasted Adele’s 2011 hit “Rolling in the Deep” on the campaign trail and used her 2012 James Bond theme song “Skyfall” at a Nov. 23 event in Ohio.
Multiple bands and musicians have publicly forbidden Trump from using their songs for his presidential campaign, including R.E.M., Neil Young and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, who wrote Trump a cease-and-desist letter in August.
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“Trump for President does not have our client’s permission to use ‘Dream On’ or any of our client’s other music in connection with the campaign because it gives the false impression that he is connected with or endorses Mr. Trump’s presidential bid,” reads the letter.
Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider originally gave Trump permission to use his band’s 1984 song “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” but revoked it after the billionaire mogul’s stream of controversial comments about immigrants and Muslims.
“What’s going on now has me questioning allowing the song to be continued to be used,” he told CBC Radio’s Shad in December. “And it’s very upsetting to me because I strongly don’t agree with his extremist positions. I know the man’s not a racist. He’s a friend of mine.”
Earlier this month, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made a campaign video featuring an original song that appropriated the tune to Adele’s recent single “Hello” and changed the main hook from “hello from the other side” to “hello from the caucus night.”
