Sinéad O’Connor’s heirs demand that Donald Trump stop using her music at rallies

Music

By Jack Hobbs

Sinéad O’Connor’s estate is demanding that former President Donald Trump stop playing the late singer’s music during his political rallies.

“Throughout her life, it is well known that Sinéad O’Connor lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, justice and decency towards her fellow human beings,” the late singer’s estate and Chrysalis Records said. in a joint statement to the Associated Press. “Therefore, we learn with outrage that Donald Trump has been using his iconic rendition of ‘Nothing compares to 2 U‘ at their political rallies.

“It is no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted if her work was misrepresented in this way by someone she herself referred to as a ‘biblical devil,’” the statement continued. “As guardians of his legacy, we demand that Donald Trump and his associates immediately desist from using his music.”

The Post has contacted O’Connor’s estate for comment.

Trump, 77, received the cease-and-desist letter after the estate learned that the former president had been using the singer’s 1990 hit at several rallies.

The former “The Apprentice” host, who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, is currently running for re-election in the 2024 presidential race.

O’Connor, who died of natural causes in July 2023 at the age of 56, was an outspoken critic of Trump.

“I actually think Donald Trump is the biblical devil, the damn one,” O’Connor. told the hot press in 2020. “He’s not playing. No one should think they are doing this just to get elected. He is diabolical enough to believe in these things.

“He should have been dragged out of the White House the moment he separated his first child from his parents at the Mexican border,” she continued. “They should remove him from the office non-violently. They should go up to him, like they did with Nixon, and say, ‘You’re not fit for the damn job, get out.’

“Pretend like you’ve had a heart attack, a series of mini-strokes, whatever you want, but get out!”

At one point, O’Connor even claimed that he actually believed Trump was “a Satanist.”

“I know this may sound extreme; I really don’t give a damn what other people think, but I am convinced that the man is actually a Satanist,” she told the outlet.

The “Drink Before the War” singer’s estate has become the latest in a series of artists to send cease-and-desist letters to the former president.

In 2018, Pharrell Williams started when he asked Trump to stop playing his song “Happy.” Tom Petty’s family also criticized the business mogul for using “I will not back down” at a 2020 rally.

Johnny Marr, leader of the Smiths, also publicly condemned Trump on X (formerly Twitter) for using his 1984 hit, “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want,” for an event in South Dakota.

Other artists who have banned Trump from using their songs include Adele, Guns N’ Roses, Aerosmith, Neil Young, Rihanna and Ozzy Osbourne.

Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber also issued Trump a cease and desist letter after continuously playing “Memory” from their infamous musical “Cats.”