Céline Dion’s management and record company Sony Music Canada said the use of her world-famous hit “My Heart Will Go On” at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Montana on Friday was “unauthorized.”
A video of Dion performing the 1997 song was released at a Trump and JD Vance rally in Bozeman, Montana on Friday night. In a statement to X, the Canadian musician’s team said Saturday they were aware of the Republican campaign’s use of “video, audio, musical performance and likeness of Celine Dion” singing the song.
“This use is not permitted under any circumstances and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use,” he said. “…And really, THAT song?”
The power ballad was the theme song to the 1997 hit film Titanic, a love story set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic.
Dion is not the first artist to reject the Trump campaign’s use of her music.
After Trump’s campaign used “Start Me Up” at a rally in 2016, The Rolling Stones It issued a statement saying they never authorized it and demanded an “immediate cessation of all use”.
Rihanna In 2018, he did the same after “Don’t Stop the Music” was played at another rally.
“I and my people will never be in or around one of these tragic rallies,” the musician said at the time.
The list goes on Neil YoungAerosmith’s Steven TylerEverlast (former House of Pain frontman) and British singer Adele also criticizes Trump for using his songs at rallies over the years.