Celine Dion’s management team and her record label Sony Music Canada said the use of her world-famous song “My Heart Will Go On” at a Donald Trump rally in Montana on Friday was “unauthorized.”
A video of Dion performing the 1997 song was broadcast 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 that they were aware of the Republican campaign’s use of “the video, recording, musical performance and image” of Celine Dion singing the song.
The statement read: “Under no circumstances should this be used, nor does Celine Dion endorse this or any similar use… And really, that song?”
This powerful song was the theme song to the 1997 hit movie 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 his music.
After the Trump campaign used “Start Me Up” at a rally in 2016, the Rolling Stones issued a statement saying they had not given permission to do so and asked that “all use cease immediately.”
Rihanna did the same thing in 2018 after playing “Don’t Stop the Music” at another rally.
“I or my people would never be in or near one of those tragic gatherings,” the musician said at the time.
The list continues with Neil Young, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Everlast (former House of Pain frontman), and British singer Adele They also criticized Trump for using their songs at rallies over the years.
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