{"id":256178,"date":"2024-08-22T02:55:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/beyonce-warns-trump-campaign-over-freedom-video-report\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:56","slug":"beyonce-warns-trump-campaign-over-freedom-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/beyonce-warns-trump-campaign-over-freedom-video-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 Warns Trump Campaign Over \u201cFreedom\u201d Video: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4910-beyonce\/\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>\u2019s team has threatened to hit former President Donald J. Trump\u2019s campaign with an official cease-and-desist order over the use of her 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/21867-lemonade\/\"><em>Lemonade<\/em><\/a> hit \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/18214-beyonce-freedom-ft-kendrick-lamar\/\">Freedom<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-threatens-cease-and-desist-trump-campaign-freedom-video-1235084830\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> reports. On Tuesday (August 20), a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, posted a 13-second video on <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheStevenCheung\/status\/1825948172495237263\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/TheStevenCheung\/status\/1825948172495237263\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheStevenCheung\/status\/1825948172495237263\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> that depicts Trump deplaning onto a tarmac in Michigan. The clip was scored by \u201cFreedom,\u201d reportedly without Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom\u201d has recently been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kamala-harris-beyonce-freedom-campaign-speech-1235065661\/\">adopted<\/a> by Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign, and it\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sHky_Xopyrw?si=lQvfHjm3aS6G_X0P\">featured in ads<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/23\/style\/beyonce-kamala-harris-freedom.html\">the artist\u2019s blessing<\/a>. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/19\/us\/politics\/dnc-highlights-biden-harris.html\">played proudly<\/a> at the Democratic National Convention, too.<\/p>\n<p>Pitchfork has reached out to Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s representatives for comment and additional information.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ContentCardEmbedWrapper-kULtsE kNltym content-card-embed content-card-embed--side-by-side\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedWrapper\"><a class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ContentCardEmbedImageLink-eUhtno iUEiRd ibNgQE lijBeg ftklIl content-card-embed__image\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedImage\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/musicians-might-be-able-to-finally-stop-trump-from-using-their-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa responsive-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donald Trump shrugging at a rally in Tulsa\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/5f0769b2197c383b13eebcfb\/master\/w_775%2Cc_limit\/Trump.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/5f0769b2197c383b13eebcfb\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/Trump.jpg 120w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/5f0769b2197c383b13eebcfb\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/Trump.jpg 240w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/5f0769b2197c383b13eebcfb\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/Trump.jpg 320w, https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/5f0769b2197c383b13eebcfb\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/Trump.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/picture><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/beyonce-warns-trump-campaign-over-freedom-video\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s team has threatened to hit former President Donald J. Trump\u2019s campaign with an official cease-and-desist order over the use of her 2016 Lemonade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}