Village Individuals have addressed their upcoming efficiency at Donald Trump‘s inauguration as President of the US – see what they needed to say beneath.
Yesterday (January 13), Village Individuals introduced that they are going to be acting at Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC on January 20, 2025. Additionally performing on the ceremony is Grammy-winning singer Carrie Underwood.
In keeping with the Related Press, different performers billed to seem on the inauguration embody Trump-favourites nation singer Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio.
Whereas asserting their participation within the inauguration ceremony, Village Individuals addressed their determination on Fb. They wrote: “We’re asserting right this moment that VILLAGE PEOPLE have accepted an invite from President Elect Trump’s marketing campaign to take part in inaugural actions, together with at the very least one occasion with President Elect Trump. We all know this wont make a few of you content to listen to nevertheless we consider that music is to be carried out with out regard to politics.”
The continued, alluding to favouriting Kamala Harris as President: “Our music ‘Y.M.C.A.’ is a worldwide anthem that hopefully helps carry the nation collectively after a tumultuous and divided marketing campaign the place our most well-liked candidate misplaced. Due to this fact, we consider it’s now time to carry the nation along with music which is why VILLAGE PEOPLE might be acting at varied occasions as a part of the 2025 Inauguration of Donald J. Trump.”
TO VILLAGE PEOPLE FANS AND THE MEDIA.We’re asserting right this moment that VILLAGE PEOPLE have accepted an invite from…
Posted by Village Individuals on Monday, January 13, 2025
Main as much as Trump’s inauguration, he regularly used two Village Individuals songs throughout his election campaigns – each in 2020 and once more final 12 months – ‘Macho Man’ and ‘Y.M.C.A.’. Regardless of initially asking Trump to not use ‘Y.M.C.A.’ in 2020 after the President seemingly threatened to shoot Black Lives Matter protestors in Minneapolis, Village Individuals frontman Victor Willis retracted his disapproval in 2021.
On the time, Willis revealed that the music had “benefited enormously from use by the President Elect”, citing its re-emergence on the Billboard charts at #1. “The monetary advantages have been nice in addition to ‘Y.M.C.A.’ is estimated to gross a number of million {dollars} because the President Elect’s continued use of the music,” Willis defined. “Due to this fact, I’m glad I allowed the President Elect’s continued use of ‘Y.M.C.A.’ And I thank him for selecting to make use of my music.”
Willis has additionally regularly denied that ‘Y.M.C.A.’ is a homosexual anthem. He stated in December final 12 months: “As I’ve stated quite a few occasions prior to now, that could be a false assumption primarily based on the truth that my writing associate was homosexual, and a few (not all) of Village Individuals had been homosexual, and that the primary Village Individuals album was completely about homosexual life.”
Trump’s 2017 inauguration featured performances from Rockettes, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and America’s Bought Expertise singer Jackie Evancho. Obama’s first inauguration in 2009 noticed Aretha Franklin carry out, whereas Beyonce and Kelly Clarkson sang at his second inauguration in 2013.