Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” is on the verge of having no live music at all.
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Donald Trump’s “ Great American State Fair ” is on the verge of having no live music at all.
As of Friday, six of the nine original headliners have dropped out of the concert series intended to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary. Martina McBride, Young MC, Milli Vanilli, The Commodores, Morris Day & The Time, and Bret Michaels have all withdrawn their names.
Their absence leaves just three booked artists on the widely advertised docket: Vanilla Ice, Flo Rida, and C+C Music Factory. But even the dwindled remainders seem on rocky ground.
Robert Clivillés, one of the co-founders of C+C Music Factory, revealed on Thursday that the group’s potential participation in the event was highly contentious and possibly illegal.
Clivillés claimed that Freedom Williams—who provided rap vocals on the hit track “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” and whose picture appears on the Freedom 250 event page—had no right to use the group’s name for his own tour, since he was only ever a featured guest artist and never a contractual component of the band.
“C&C Music Factory in-fact means Clivlles [ sic ] & Cole Music Factory,” Clivillés posted on his Facebook page. “Freedom Williams should not be using it to tour, nor represent what this group stands for in anyway! He should address himself as Freedom Williams formerly a guest featured artist on C&C Music Factory.
“Any comment that Freedom Williams makes or any event that he participates in regarding any Political or Religious views or opinions, he makes as Freedom Williams an individual solely, it has nothing to do with C&C Music Factories music or viewpoints in anyway,” Clivillés added, urging fans to go haunt Williams’s social media pages in order to change his mind.
Other artists on the original advert for the Great American State Fair claimed that the booking process was misleading and that they were not previously made aware of the event’s highly partisan flair.
“I asked lots of questions and was assured this was a nonpartisan event that was meant to celebrate ALL 50 states,” wrote McBride, a multi-platinum country music singer, on her Instagram page Thursday night. “Yesterday things started changing and what we were told is, in fact, not what is happening.”
McBride added that she has spent her “entire career singing songs about real people with real issues,” and was “greatly upset” by the prospect that her fans might think she’s “abandoning the meaning behind those songs” by way of her participation in the Trump-backed event.
“I assure you, that is not the case,” McBride wrote.
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I've always liked Martina Mc Bride and am pleased to see she knows what time it is.
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I have a lot of respect for her
I dont about that , Kid Rock could always do a seven hour show.
Recordings could be a blessing, lol.
Lee Greenwood's one hit over and over again
7 hours? I doubt he has the stamina to do 7 minutes
If it was anything remotely physical, I'd agree. But in this case, he can run a marathon of metaphorically blowing himself on stage and not tire out. To the rest of the world, who don't have their heads shoved up his ass while he does it, it feels like watching that Black Mirror episode where they broadcast the Prime Minister fucking a pig.
This has been giving me the giggles all day. When you can't even get Vanilli to lip synch for you, you've gone past the bottom of the barrel.
I've always like Martina McBride, too. She has an awesome voice.
I heard MAGA have been insulting her all day on twitter.
They have on Facebook.
Pretty much all of the artists who backed out said they'd been misled about the nature of the show. They were told it would be non-partisan.
Well, except Milli Vanilli. They (or he, as one of the duo died in 1998) said he had never agreed to do it in the first place.
Lets face it, Donald Trump is ruining America's 250th birthday for tens of millions of people. And we dont get a do-over.
I've seen a few blurbs about kid suck being snubbed by the event, but I don't know or care enough to look at what's left of his tour date schedule. I guess it's lee greenwood or nobody. wait, I know, trump's DJ can play his cease and desist playlist ...
Does he even have another song in his repertoire besides "God Bless the USA"?
he'll join milli on stage to lip sync ymca ...
trump is a career killer in showbiz circles now. the entertainers thought they were going to america's birthday party, not trump's ...
but of course
Well, this doesn't look deranged or anything.
He is a dangerous lunatic.
How can even Trump supporters not be offended by this?
oops, all the great american patriots will already be at the counter protest concert ... bummer ...
He says it "will be wild". That sounds ominous given his experience holding "wild" events.
If it looks like a low turnout though he wont show up. Book it.
Yeah, I figure he was humiliated enough by the poor showing at his vanity military parade last year.
He believes he can change reality with his lies.
All he can do is change the perception of weak minds.
he can't risk another one of those now ...
80 year old fruit cake.
...if fruit cake were a convicted felon and accused pedophile.
Is he going to talk for 7 hours?
About himself? Of course he can, he'd talk about himself twice that long. And I'm sure he'll even mention how America is turning 250 but I'm sure he'll tell everyone that, without him, it wouldn't be.
How come they don't schedule Ted Nugent? Oh, that's right, they want musicians.
trump's handlers seem a bit more concerned with his optics now for some strange reason ... too late, bummer
he's already been busted trying to fill the stands at his MMA event with military personnel that have to meet strict appearance guidelines ...
They also have to pay for their own travel and lodging. I'm surprised they're not charging them for admission.
Actually, they could let the military show up in civilian clothes then it wouldn't look like they filled the stands with unwilling soldiers
I think dev asked yesterday, but what about Kid Rock? I doubt his touring schedule is too busy.
Not a musician. If they want a clown he's the guy.
Gene Simmons still likes him, doesn;t he?
it's pretty bad when trump can't even convince the cowboy hat wearing maga shit-kickers to show up ...
Was he going to announce the winner of the 51st state lottery?
I think it's pretty clear that the 51st State already exists. It's that putrid rightwing religious conservative hellscape inside Trumps colon where the MAGAverse was born and his ardent sycophants continue to reside.
the maga birth canal ...
Maybe Elon can provide some robots that can play some AI generated music.
a robot jerk-off drill team would be more appropriate for that audience ...
Trump is probably praying for bad weather, so he can …
yeah, but he did that interview in one take ... /s