This was predicted last night the nanosecond that the image of Celine Dion singing “My Heart Will Go On” appeared on the big video screen at the Trump/Vance rally in Bozeman, Montana. I don’t know what it is with those people. They don’t bother to get authorizations from artists and this has come back to bite them again. In the past Team Trump has gotten nasty grams from the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Adele, Rihanna, Johnny Marr of The Smiths, and others. Marr minced no words telling Team Trump how he felt about them using his music.
“Ahh…right…OK. I never in a million years would’ve thought this could come to pass. Consider this shit shut right down right now,” the musician wrote.
And I know you remember when Tom Petty’s family sent a cease and desist letter to both Team Trum and Lara Trump.
“Trump was in no way authorized to use this song to further a campaign that leaves too many Americans and common sense behind,” the family wrote in their statement.
So now it’s Celine Dion — who not only tells Trump to stop but openly mocks him for using the theme from Titanic.
Celine Dion won the internet today in the clap back to Donald using “My Heart Will Go On” at his sad little Montana rally last night.
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 pic.twitter.com/ZHp90bd90H
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) August 10, 2024
HAHAHAHAHAHA! And now this part you’re going to love.
People speculate that someone on Donald's team is trolling him with the music selections. (They also played "Send in the Clowns" before he got on stage.)
But given Donald's love of Broadway-style tunes, I wouldn't be surprised to find these selections were at his request. And,…
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) August 10, 2024
the tweet ends, “let’s face it, he lacks the self-awareness to see the irony.” But you have to admit, these coincidences do make one think there’s a troll in Team Trump. Either that, or Trump just picks these songs because he likes the sound of them and doesn’t see how he’s setting himself up for ridicule. He could be that far gone. Now this next one is supposedly from last night but I can’t verify it independently. This is the only source I can find. So it was either last night or some night or it’s doctored video. But this account is credible.
Did his teleprompter break down and he's waiting for it to be fixed? That, or he's in a trance waiting for the voices in his head to tell him what to do next.
— CHEERS! 🍻 🥂💙 (@BrandyKody) August 10, 2024
And I would kill to have the audio in the Fox News control room while they’re counting the seconds and trying to figure out what to do.
86 days and it’s going to get a lot crazier. As I said, chill the brewskies, lay in the popcorn. If you’re a young person you’ll be able to tell your grandchildren about the spectacular flame out of the Republican party in the year 2024. If you’re older, hey, we’re not going to see another shitshow like this the rest of our lives, God willing.
Sue him for one million dollars per copyright infringement since that seems to be the only thing these FN morons understand.
The theme from ‘The Titanic’ and ‘Send In The Clowns’?
How perfectly apt.
And Trump unaware of the meanings?
Soooo believable.
To be fair, the piece colloquially known as ‘Send in the Clowns’ is actually titled “Entrance of the Gladiators” and was written in 1897 by Czech composer Julius Fučík.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance_of_the_Gladiators
That doesn’t mean trolling wasn’t involved. Someone on Team Turnip probably just saw the title on paper and went “Hell yeah, he’ll love it!”
If the referenced song was “Send in the Clowns,” that is most definitely NOT “Entrance of the Gladiators.”
“Send in the Clowns” is a song written by the legendary Stephen Sondheim for the musical “A Little Night Music” and originally written specifically for the show’s leading lady, Glynis Johns*, who, as Sondheim has noted, didn’t really have a “theatre voice” but she was capable of singing short phrases to great effect. The song has since been recorded by hundreds of artists including Frank Sinatra, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand (who even got an extra verse written for her by Sondheim) and Judy Collins (whose version got Sondheim a Grammy for Song of the Year).
The “Entrance of the Gladiators” is a wholly different piece of music–more in line with a “march” (the kind so connected with John Philip Sousa). And I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone call it “Send in the Clowns.” As your Wiki article notes, the song IS connected to clowns, specifically for their entrance to a circus performance, but there’s nothing to suggest it’s ever been called “Send in the Clowns.” (And Mrs Betty Bowers would NOT describe it as a “Broadway-style tune” if that were the song that was played.)
You are correct on Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns”. I was today years old when I found out there was an actual piece of music called by that title.
One listen and almost anyone would know Sondheim’s song would never have been played at a Trump rally. Fučík’s march has been.
Most of us over 30 in my area (53 here) hear “Entrance of the Gladiators” and think it’s called “Send in the Clowns” because that’s what we were told in our youth, compliments of a combination of the Barnum and Bailey circus advertisements, people repeating misinformation, and the Mandela Effect. I played a rendition of “Entrance of the Gladiators” for my wife (51) and she instantly and erroneously identified it as “Send in the Clowns.”
This isn’t an ‘agree to disagree’. Some of us have heard Fučík’s piece by that incorrect name, and clearly some of us haven’t. But now we’re all up to speed. And we can all agree that to refer to DJT as a clown is to insult all those who spent time honing an art form, waiting in the makeup chair, being slathered in grease paint, and tolerating the recent rounds of coulrophobia just to entertain audiences for sub-subsistence pay.
Well, ummm, it is MT and let’s face it they throw cow pies better than they maintain electronic equipment. As for the Titanic and Send in the Clowns bit-most Montanans, and I would not be far off in saying ALL the folks at his Bozone Klan rally, wouldn’t know either song. When I say MT has the extras cast from Deliverance, I’m not kidding.
These people are DUMB. How dumb are they? They’re so dumb they might just replace a senator who has brought home a lot of funds, helped veterans BOO-COO, and supports the 2nd-A a lot more than von shitzinpants does, with some yahoo carpetbagger who got jersey gianforte and the magat legislature to lower the property taxes on his Big Sky ski home (among others) while raising them on the rest of us, and is licking his chops at the possibility of taking public lands out of public hands and giving it to the wealthy. THAT my friends is how fucking dumb these stoopie fucks are.
Oh yeah and that “swamp” the dumb-fuck magats are always talking about “draining”? Shitty sheehy HIRES the fuckers to get legislation he wants in D.C.
I would make book that the dumb-fuck supervisor I used to have who called von shitzi, now get this, a “businessman” was probably in that audience. Folks, they don’t get much dumber than Montanans.
He really should have had someone singing ‘My Fart will go on’