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Gay Musician Woodkid Demands Trump Stop Using His Music
metroweekly.compreviously criticized the campaign in December for releasing a two-minute video, featuring images of soldiers and anti-vaccine demonstrators alongside clips of Trump’s speeches, as the artist’s 2012 single plays in the background.According to Euro News, the Trump campaign has played that video featuring Woodkid’s song, or sometimes just the song alone, at Trump’s rallies.
And despite the artist’s objections, the Trump campaign re-released the video from December on Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social.On August 7, Woodkid took to X to protest the campaign’s use of his music.“Once again, I never authorized the use of my music on this @realDonaldTrump film,” he wrote.Once again, I never gave permission for the use of my music on that @realDonaldTrump film.
Run Boy Run is a LGBT+ anthem wrote by me, a proud LGBT+ musician. How ironic. Please react and don’t be complicit @UMusicFrance— WOODKID (@Woodkid) August 6, 2024Woodkid also urged his label, Universal Music France, to “react and don’t be complicit” by allowing Trump’s use of the song to go unchallenged. “Run Boy Run” is an anthem about transformation and the pursuit of personal freedom.
It is about a misfit who must break free from rigid societal norms. Woodkid has previously said the song is inspired by his experiences as a gay man.
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