Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood wants his music removed from Melania Trump’s new documentary
Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood wants his music removed from the new Melania Trump documentary, and claims he was never consulted on its use.
The documentary was released at the end of January and centres around Melania’s life in the days leading up to her husband’s January 2025 inauguration. The doc uses a section of music from the score that Greenwood wrote for the 2017 film Phantom Thread, and both he and its director, Paul Thomas, are reportedly unhappy.
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Greenwood has composed music for a number of films, including We Need To Talk About Kevin, Inherent Vice and more. In a statement from the pair given to Variety, it says that Greenwood was not made aware of the use of his work in the new doc, and alleges this breaches his composer agreement.
It reads, “It has come to our attention that a piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used in the Melania documentary. While Jonny Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, Universal failed to consult Jonny on this third-party use which is a breach of his composer agreement. As a result Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary.”
Greenwood is not the only artist who doesn’t want his music associated with the Trump name, as a number of others have spoken out against the US President using their work at his rallies and within campaign videos. Trump has previously used Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Fortunate Son to soundtrack his rallies, causing the band’s guitarist and prime songwriter John Fogerty to issue a cease and desist order to put a stop to its use.
In an interview with Vulture, Fogerty chose the song as the most misunderstood in his catalogue: “That’s misunderstood by a small percentage of people – people who seem to be conservative, right-wing, and probably Republican or some other ‘ism’ in that category, and most notably by Mr Trump.
“It’s happened before where people thought it was a patriotic ditty to wave the flag and all that, not really understanding the cynicism and absolute defiance I had in the song. I mean, even if you don’t hear the rest of it, you should at least hear, ‘It ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate son’. But if you don’t, then I guess you’re able to see the song in a different way,” he said.
Guitar.com has reached out to Universal Music Group for comment.
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