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Celine Dion mocks Donald Trump for playing her “Titanic” ballad amid his sinking campaign

“Because when your campaign’s headed for an iceberg, you might as well set it to music.”
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Canadian pop superstar Celine Dion brought her Courage World Tour to Cincinnati's U.S. Bank Arena on Oct. 24, 2019.
Canadian pop superstar Celine Dion brought her Courage World Tour to Cincinnati's U.S. Bank Arena on Oct. 24, 2019. Photo: Joe Simon for the Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN

Canadian singer Celine Dion and social media commenters have mocked former President Donald Trump for playing her song “My Heart Will Go On” — from the iconic from the 1997 shipwreck drama Titanic — at a rally in Bozeman, Montana last Friday. Trump played the song without the authorization of Dion or her licensing company, Sony Music Entertainment Canada.

A statement issued by Dion via X on Saturday stated, “In no way is this use authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use.”

“…And really, that song?” the statement added, possibly drawing attention to how the song was made famous by a movie about a sinking ship.

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Social media commenters also mocked Trump’s use of the song, especially as his campaign has begun to sink with poorly received speeches and sagging poll numbers amid the rise of the new Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Is Trump’s campaign being trolled from within?” wrote X user Mike Sington. “Someone on his staff decided to play Celine Dion singing ‘My Heart Will Go On’ from Titanic at his Montana rally. Many consider Titanic a metaphor for Trump’s sinking campaign.”

Marc Broklawski, a self-described member of the Democratic Party of Virginia, wrote that the song was perfect “because when your campaign’s headed for an iceberg, you might as well set it to music.”

Dion has become more prominent recently for her performance concluding the Opening Ceremonies for the 2024 Olympic Games. The performance, done on the viewing platform of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, was her first since she announced her diagnosis of “stiff-person syndrome — a muscular condition that creates stiffness and violent spasms in the torso and limbs — in 2022.

This isn’t the first time that musicians have publicly objected to Trump playing their music at rallies.

Other artists like Neil Young, Adele, Aerosmith, Rihanna, and Pharrell Williams have all asked Trump to stop playing their music at his events, The Washington Post reported.

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