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Topics: Melania Trump, Music, Donald Trump, Entertainment, Film and TV, Documentaries
Niamh Shackleton
Topics: Melania Trump, Music, Donald Trump, Entertainment, Film and TV, Documentaries
Prince's estate reportedly blocked those involved in the creation of Melania Trump's documentary from using his music, a producer on the project has alleged.
Melania's doc, imaginatively called Melania, was released last month and is expected to eventually make its way to Prime Video later this year.
The film follows the first lady in the 20 days leading up to her husband Donald Trump's second term in office.
It completely tanked with movie critics across the globe, but the general public loved it. At the time of writing Melania has a pitiful 11 percent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, but a much more impressive 99 percent audience score.
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While the hard work of those who made the almost two-hour documentary paid off in terms of reviews from the audience, that doesn't mean there weren't bumps in the road during filming.
See the trailer here:
One of the biggest issues they faced was music as a lot of musicians refuse to have their work associated with anything Trump-related, even his wife.
Somebody who requested that his music be taken out of Melania was Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood — and reportedly he wasn't the only one.
According to Melania producer Marc Beckman, Prince's estate blocked the late singer's songs being used as well.
He told Variety: "I think Prince sold the rights to Primary Wave. And the Primary Wave guys were like, 'Oh yeah, we’d be happy to go ahead and give you guys the rights to this Prince song'.
"But in that instance, it’s my understanding that the deal was such that the estate now needs to approve what Primary Wave does with it. Literally we were ready to go, and and this lawyer that manages the estate was like, 'Prince would never want his song associated with Donald Trump.'"
Beckman said they explained that it wasn't a film about Donald Trump and that he only appeared in the documentary here and there, but Prince's estate still wouldn't budge.
"It's so ridiculous," Beckman said of the ordeal.
UNILAD have approached Primary Wave, who owns part of Prince's music catalog, for comment.
Beckman's claims come just weeks after pop icon Sabrina Carpenter blasted the Trump administation for using her song 'Juno' in a video of ICE officers arresting people.
"This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda," she wrote on Twitter.
The White House responded by saying that it wouldn't apologize for 'deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country'.