'...And really, THAT song?': Celine Dion criticizes Trump campaign for unauthorized use of her music

Singer Celine Dion connected Saturday issued a connection that some criticized erstwhile President Donald Trump's run for the "unauthorized" usage of her euphony astatine a caller rally and poked amusive astatine the opus choice.

The Trump run has played Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" astatine aggregate run rallies passim 2023 and 2024, though Dion's connection said she and her absorption squad had lone precocious go alert of its use, specifically pointing to it being played astatine Trump's rally successful Bozeman, Montana, connected Friday.

"Today, Celine Dion's absorption squad and her grounds label, Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., became alert of the unauthorized usage of the video, recording, philharmonic performance, and likeness of Celine Dion singing 'My Heart Will Go On' astatine a Donald Trump / JD Vance run rally successful Montana," Dion said successful a connection posted to her X and Instagram accounts.

"In nary mode is this usage authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this oregon immoderate akin use. ... And really, THAT song?"

"My Heart Will Go On" is simply a romanticist ballad that served arsenic the taxable opus to James Cameron's "Titanic." Released successful 1997, it is 1 of the best-selling singles of each time.

CNN has reached retired to the Trump run regarding whether they volition cease playing the opus astatine aboriginal events.

Rihanna, the Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, and the property of George Harrison, among different musicians, person each antecedently objected to Donald Trump's statesmanlike campaigns utilizing their music, dating backmost to his archetypal tally successful 2016.

Dion made headlines past period aft returning to the signifier successful expansive manner with a show of Edith Piaf's "L'Hymne à l'amour" astatine the Olympics opening ceremony. It was her archetypal performance show since revealing that she is surviving with stiff idiosyncratic syndrome, "a rare, progressive syndrome that affects the tense system, specifically the encephalon and spinal cord," according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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