NEW YORK (AP) — Kenny Loggins is objecting to the usage of his music in a social media put up exhibiting a synthetic intelligence-generated video of President Donald Trump dumping excrement from a fighter jet on final weekend’s “No Kings” protests.
The video, posted Saturday night time on the Republican president’s Reality Social platform, was accompanied by Loggins’ track “Danger Zone,” which seems on the soundtrack of the blockbuster 1986 Tom Cruise fighter pilot film “Top Gun.” Loggins, in an announcement Monday on his web site, stated he was not requested for permission and referred to as for the video to be eliminated.
“I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us,” Loggins wrote. “Too many people are trying to tear us apart, and we need to find new ways to come together. We’re all Americans, and we’re all patriotic.”
As of Tuesday morning, the video remained on Reality Social. Quite a few musicians, together with Adele and Bruce Springsteen, have objected over the previous decade to Trump’s use of their materials at marketing campaign rallies and elsewhere.
Representatives for Loggins responded to The Related Press’ request for extra remark Tuesday by reissuing his assertion from the day earlier than. The White Home responded to a request for remark with a nonetheless from “Top Gun” with the caption “I FEEL THE NEED FOR SPEED,” paraphrasing one of many movie’s well-known traces.
Trump has used music on AI movies at different occasions, together with Blue Oyster Cult’s ”Do not Worry the Reaper” on a put up in early October about Workplace of Administration and Finances Director Russ Vought.
Massive crowds turned out across the nation Saturday for the most recent spherical of “No Kings” rallies, at which individuals denounced what they see because the authoritarian insurance policies of the president. Trump on Sunday dismissed the rallies as a “joke” and informed reporters, “I’m no king.”
