The Smiths added to Trump rally music (January 23, 2024)

Not sure if this is a joke: tweet says Trump added Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want to his pre-rally music in Laconia, New Hampshire.

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UPDATE 12:34PM PT:

Surface posted the link:

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Media coverage:

• The Hill: Smiths guitarist rips Trump for using band’s music: ‘Consider this s‑‑‑ shut right down’. Link from shoplifterromo.
• Billboard: Johnny Marr Rips Donald Trump For Playing Smiths Songs at Rallies. Link from shoplifterromo.
• The Guardian: Johnny Marr blasts Donald Trump for playing the Smiths song at rally. Link posted by goinghome.
• From shoplifterromo:
  
  
  
  Stephen Colbert mentions Trump playing The Smiths at his rallies during his Late Show opening monologue Thursday on CBS - YouTube.
  
  Scroll to 5:32-7:01 to watch Colbert discuss Trump “treating his folks to an unlikely warmup act” before playing a snippet of “Please, please, please, let me get what I want” at a rally and then ending with Johnny Marr’s response.
• Spectator: "Why Trump loves The Smiths" (February 9, 2024)
• Vanity Fair: Why Is Donald Trump Playing the Smiths at His Rallies? Link posted by NealCassady.

 

[Young And Alive]

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of his album, You Are The Quarry, Morrissey will perform the album in its entirety plus fan favorites at Honda Center.

Fan favourites or Morrissey's favourites? lol.

 

[Mosserray]

Dear Donald, now can we have Moz for Vice-President?
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You know he tried to hang his last VP Mike Pence

 

[Mozzypaws]

He's actually the one candidate that will try and avoid that.

RFK Jr and the Greens as well.

Part of me wonders if Moz supports RFK Jr, considering his environmental activism and the Kennedy's being prominent in the 1960s civil rights struggle. He announced his support of Bernie Sanders in 2016..

 

[gashonthenail]

Do you doubt he will?

No. Do you? You are the one who said - or not.
He will 'perform' Quarry from first song to last. I have no doubt of that.
I would love to hear Suspicious Minds - but I'm probably clutching at straws with that hope.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Has he ever done that live? Or any other Quarry song that he’s never done live? Camden?

 

[Seymour Glass]

Who cares? It's a free country and he can play whatever he wants, doesn't mean that the artist endorses his campaign.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

No. Do you? You are the one who said - or not.
He will 'perform' Quarry from first song to last. I have no doubt of that.
I would love to hear Suspicious Minds - but I'm probably clutching at straws with that hope.

‘Or not’ referring to lyric change in that particular song.

 

[Thewlis]

No. Do you? You are the one who said - or not.
He will 'perform' Quarry from first song to last. I have no doubt of that.
I would love to hear Suspicious Minds - but I'm probably clutching at straws with that hope.

I doubt he’ll play it in order, but we’ll see.
Looking very much forward to Friday!

 

[gashonthenail]

Who cares? It's a free country and he can play whatever he wants, doesn't mean that the artist endorses his campaign.

Totally agree. Johnny needs to chill. He will just give Trump more publicity.

 

[gashonthenail]

‘Or not’ referring to lyric change in that particular song.

oh, I'm with you

 

[Thewlis]

Totally agree. Johnny needs to chill. He will just give Trump more publicity.

And himself, over 1 million views in just 2 hours.

 

[gashonthenail]

I doubt he’ll play it in order, but we’ll see.
Looking very much forward to Friday!

Yes, I was wondering if Quarry will be performed in order?
it would make sense to in many ways
some artists do it that way

 

[Ashley_TakeABow]

Who cares? It's a free country and he can play whatever he wants, doesn't mean that the artist endorses his campaign.

This. A million times this. Too much drama on this forum. I get why Morrissey calls it toxic.

 

[goinghome]

Sorry, but my first reaction was to laugh with bemusement at the thought this is the most emotionally sweet experience that gathering - mothers, fathers, citizens, human beings, after all - will be treated to during the rallies.

And there's JM taking the unilateral, full-spectrum dominance approach. A grand chap. Sure let him, for a while, after his belated glory. Since somehow JM alone is now The Smiths, for as long as that lasts, Moz is off the hook.

Nutty world though. No hope in either heavy-hitter, only as Juan D says, in third parties. Thankfully, hAmerica is not the world.

 

[Thewlis]

Yes, I was wondering if Quarry will be performed in order?
it would make sense to in many ways
some artists do it that way

Most do I think.
But it doesn’t seem very much like Morrissey to be dictated what to perform, or in what order.

 

[Mimi Ramone]

Totally agree. Johnny needs to chill. He will just give Trump more publicity.

No he doesn't? Since when is speaking up against shit something you need to chill about? And I thought, you were totally for free speech and freedom of expression and to stand behind your opinion etc etc ...it's the same like saying Morrissey should stop talking about animal abuse, because it gives it more publicity for example...

 

[bhops]

In making us pay even more for our protection. Yes, he is the business man that will make the BIG DEAL.

Actually the first President in decades that actually got other NATO members to start paying what they were supposed to for America's protection.

 

[gashonthenail]

No he doesn't? Since when is speaking up against shit something you need to chill about? And I thought, you were totally for free speech and freedom of expression and to stand behind your opinion etc etc ...it's the same like saying Morrissey should stop talking about animal abuse, because it gives it more publicity for example...

I think speaking up against animal torture or abuse is a tad different. This is just a politician holding a rally.

 

[bhops]

By appeasement?

That strategy was used in another conflict once. It didn't work.

Go back and actually study World War Two in depth before making this ludicrous comparison.

 

[Phranc & Open]

Actually the first President in decades that actually got other NATO members to start paying what they were supposed to for America's protection.

Western Europe is the last bastion before the US Eastcoast. It's in their own interest too. But he will find ways to make us pay. Fear is a factor. Always.