The members of Semisonic should not supporters of Donald Trump, or not less than of the way in which he's utilizing their signature track.

On Monday, the band publicly objected to the President utilizing their hit "Closing Time" in a video shared on the White Home's official social media accounts. The tune performed within the background, as males have been shackled and loaded onto an airplane behind an indication that learn, "Border Patrol." It was captioned with lyrics from the track: "You don't must go residence however you possibly can't keep right here." U.S. Customs and Border Safety have been tagged.

See the total response from Semisonic under.

"We didn’t authorize or condone the White Home’s use of our track 'Closing Time' in any approach," the band — Dan Wilson, Jacob Slichter, and John Munson — mentioned in an announcement posted to social media. "And no, they didn't ask. The track is about pleasure and potentialities and hope, they usually have missed the purpose completely."

The track was the breakout hit on the band's 1998 album Feeling Unusually Tremendous, and it cemented their inclusion on playlists of '90s hits and membership lists, typically blasting by way of the audio system because the lights got here up.

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Songwriter Wilson defined its origins to Billboard in November 2018, and it's truly far more complicated than getting somebody shooing others away.

"The blokes needed a brand new track to shut our units with," Wilson mentioned. "I believed 'Closing Time' can be a great title. We had spent seven years of our lives at that time, 4 nights per week entertaining folks. That was our life. Some bouncers yelling issues, closing time coming, all that imagery, actually, that's how the track began after which after I was midway achieved, I began realizing the entire thing was a pun about being born, so I simply made positive that the remainder of the factor might trip with that double that means, however no person acquired the joke and I didn't trouble to clarify. I believed everybody would get it."

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Semisonic are hardly the primary artists to take difficulty with Trump's use of their music. Queen, Nickelback, Rihanna, R.E.M., Steven Tyler, the Village Individuals, the property of Tom Petty, and lots of extra have known as for him to cease utilizing their songs at his rallies and different occasions. Neil Younger, for one, went so far as taking authorized motion.

In August, Celine Dion known as out Trump for utilizing her Titanic love track "My Coronary heart Will Go On" at a rally throughout the presidential marketing campaign. "On no account is that this use licensed and Celine Dion doesn’t endorse this or any related use," she wrote in an announcement. "…And actually, THAT track?"

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