Donald Trump’s administration has been slammed by the band Semisonic for utilizing their hit track “Closing Time” in a controversial deportation video shared on social media.
The White Home and Border Patrol’s official Instagram accounts posted a video exhibiting brokers looking undocumented immigrants earlier than deportation, set to the group’s 1998 monitor.
Their submit was captioned with lyrics from the track, studying: “‘You don’t need to go dwelling however you possibly can’t keep right here’ @borderpatrol.”
Minneapolis-based band Semisonic has now responded to using their music in a press release to DailyMail.com.
They stated: “We didn’t authorize or condone the White Home’s use of our track in any manner. And no, they didn’t ask.
“The track is about pleasure and potentialities and hope, and so they have missed the purpose totally.”
The monitor was written by frontman Dan Wilson, 63, who has beforehand spoken about its which means.
In a 2018 interview with Billboard, the musician defined “Closing Time” was partially impressed by the beginning of his daughter, Coco.
He stated: “The blokes needed a brand new track to shut our units with. I assumed ‘Closing Time’ could be a very good title.
“We had spent seven years of our lives at that time, 4 nights every week entertaining individuals. That was our life.
Some bouncers yelling issues, closing time coming, all that imagery – actually, that’s how the track began.
“After which after I was midway accomplished, I began realizing the entire thing was a pun about being born, so I simply made positive that the remainder of the factor might journey with that double which means. However no one bought the joke and I didn’t trouble to elucidate. I assumed everybody would get it.”
Dan has continued a profitable profession in songwriting and co-wrote the Grammy Award-winning 2011 Adele monitor “Somebody Like You.”
“Closing Time” grew to become a significant hit within the late Nineteen Nineties, reaching No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Fashionable Rock Tracks chart and charting within the high 50 in Australia, Eire, New Zealand and the UK.
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