Donald Trump is ringing in his victory within the 2024 Presidential election the anticipated method: by turning into the seventh member of the Village Individuals.

The incoming forty seventh president, who has lengthy used songs from the catalog of the long-lasting ’70s disco band at his rallies and political occasions, introduced the group on stage to shut out the "Make America Nice Once more Victory Rally" on Sunday. Trump shimmied to the group's basic disco hit "Y.M.C.A." alongside new members of the group Javier Perez, James Lee, J.J. Lippold, James Kwong, and Nicholas Manelick and Victor Willis, the one remaining member of the unique Village Individuals lineup and de facto band chief.

This system for Monday's inauguration festivities and the Victory Rally have been launched on Jan. 13. Willis responded to the immediate backlash to their inclusion within the itinerary with a submit on the band's official Fb web page that learn partly, "We all know this received't make a few of you cheerful to listen to nevertheless we imagine that music is to be carried out with out regard to politics."

Although a number of members of the band's authentic lineup recognized as queer, Willis is straight, and has dismissed readings of songs like "Y.M.C.A." and "Macho Man" as "homosexual anthems." Willis wrote on Fb in December,

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"There's been a whole lot of discuss, particularly of late, that 'Y.M.C.A.' is in some way a homosexual anthem. As I've mentioned quite a few occasions previously, that could be a false assumption based mostly on the truth that my writing companion was homosexual, and a few (not all) of Village Individuals have been homosexual, and that the primary Village Individuals album was completely about homosexual life."

After extra backlash following the inauguration efficiency announcement, Willis posted a follow-up to the band's Fb on Jan. 16 that said "our performances aren’t an [endorsement] of the President Elect's insurance policies it doesn’t matter what you say on the contrary."

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Willis additionally clarified that the members of the band "imagine that music ought to be shared throughout political spectrum and never preserved for one political facet. However right here's the unhappy fact, if our most popular candidate (Kamala Harris), had received, Village Individuals would by no means have been invited to carry out at her inauguration. She would have chosen the likes of John Legend and Beyoncé, and so forth."

At his 2021 inauguration, President Joe Biden tapped the likes of Girl Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, and Garth Brooks as performers.

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Village Individuals weren't the one musicians to carry out on the rally. Longtime Trump supporter Child Rock took to the stage to play a number of of his songs, as did Billy Ray Cyrus, and the choir from Liberty College.

Headlining tomorrow's inaugural proceedings is nation star and former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood. In line with a duplicate of the inaugural program obtained by Leisure Weekly, Underwood will carry out "America the Lovely" alongside the Armed Forces Refrain and United States Naval Academy Glee Membership.

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In an announcement to EW, Underwood provided as her purpose for accepting Trump's invitation to carry out, "I like our nation and am honored to have been requested to sing on the inauguration and to be a small a part of this historic occasion. I’m humbled to reply the decision at a time once we should all come collectively within the spirit of unity and trying to the long run."

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