Céline Dion’s team has criticized Donald Trump’s use of her song at a campaign event in Montana.
During a campaign event for Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, in Bozeman on Friday, Aug. 9, event organizers played a video of Dion singing “My Heart Will Go On,” her hit song from the soundtrack of the 1997 film Titanic, according to NBC News.
In a message shared to Dion’s X (formerly Twitter) account on Saturday, August 10, the singer’s team responded to the campaign’s use of the song.
“Today, Céline Dion’s management team and her record label, Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., became aware of the unauthorized use of video, recordings, musical performances and imagery of Céline Dion singing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ at a Donald Trump/JD Vance campaign event in Montana,” the statement read.
“This use is completely unauthorized, and Céline Dion does not endorse this or any similar use,” the statement added, ending with a question for the Trump campaign: “…And really, the SONG?”
Dion previously turned down Trump’s request to perform at the 2017 presidential inauguration.
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This isn’t the first time a musical artist has objected to 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 order to Trump after he used the band’s song, “Fortunate Son,” at a campaign event, according to Rolling Stone.
“I wrote this song because, as a veteran, I find it disgusting that some people are allowed to be excluded from serving our country simply because they have access to political and financial power. I also wrote about the wealthy who don’t pay their fair share of taxes,” Fogerty wrote at the time.
“Mr. Trump is a prime example of both of these issues. The fact that Mr. Trump is also stoking hatred, racism and fear while rewriting recent history is all the more reason to be concerned about the use of my song.”
That same year, Consequence of Sound reported that Phil Collins’ team also sent a request to the Trump campaign to stop using “In the Air Tonight” after the song was played at a campaign event in Iowa.
The use of the song was “particularly inappropriate because it appears to be intended as a satirical reference to COVID-19,” Collins’ attorney wrote at the time. “The reference was made at a time when Iowa is experiencing an acceleration of COVID-19 infections. Mr. Collins does not approve of the apparent triviality of COVID-19.” (People/Z-3)
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