Céline Dion Slams Donald Trump's 'Unauthorized' Use of 'My Heart Will Go On' at Montana Rally: 'Really, That Song?'

Celine Dion’s team is speaking out against Donald Trump using one of her most famous songs at a campaign rally in Montana.

During a rally for Trump and his running mate JD Vance in Bozeman on Friday, Aug. 9, event organizers played a video of Dion performing “My Heart Will Go On,” her 1997 hit song. Titanic soundtrack, according to NBC News.

In a message shared on Dion’s X (formerly Twitter) account on Saturday, August 10, the singer’s team responded to the campaign’s use of the song.

“Today, Celine Dion’s management team and her record label, Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., became aware of the unauthorized use of the video, recording, musical performance and likeness of Celine Dion singing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ at the Donald Trump / JD Vance campaign rally in Montana,” the statement said.

“This use is in no way authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use,” the statement added, ending with a question for the Trump campaign: “…And really, THAT song?”

Dion previously declined Trump’s request to perform at his 2017 presidential inauguration.

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This is not the first time a music artist has rejected Trump’s use of their music. During the former president’s 2020 re-election campaign, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty issued a cease-and-desist letter to Trump after he used the band’s song “Fortunate Son” at campaign events, according to Rolling Stone.

Céline Dion performs at the Eiffel Tower during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, 2024.

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“I wrote this song because, as a veteran, I was appalled that some people were allowed to be excluded from serving our country because they had access to political and financial privilege. I also wrote about rich people not paying their fair share of taxes,” Fogerty said. wrote then.

“Mr. Trump is a prime example of both of these problems. The fact that Mr. Trump is also fanning the flames of hatred, racism and fear while rewriting recent history is all the more reason to be concerned about his use of my song.”

Donald Trump speaks at a press conference on August 8, 2024.

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the same year, A consequence of the sound reported that Phil Collins’ team also sent the Trump campaign a request to stop using “In the Air Tonight” after it was played at a rally in Iowa.

The use of the song was “particularly inappropriate because it was clearly intended as a satirical reference to Covid-19,” Collins’ lawyer wrote at the time. “That reference was made at a time when Iowa was suffering from an acceleration of the Covid-19 infection. Mr. Collins disapproves of the apparent trivialization of Covid-19.”

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The Associated Press previously reported that even more artists — and the estates of several dead musicians — have objected to Trump’s use of their music, including Bruce Springsteen, who rejected his use of “Born in the USA” in 2016, Neil Young, Tom Petty’s family, estate of Leonard Cohen and The Rolling Stones.

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