Many musicians have balked after Trump used their music at rallies, threatening to sue and taking legal action to stop their music from being associated with MAGA.
However, one man has not gone along with the madness of the crowd, and he's actually really happy that Trump is using the song. And it's sort of the last musician I'd suspect.
Victor Willis, writer of "Y.M.C.A.," an iconic 70's disco mega-hit and now an anthem for the Trump presidency, with his iconic dance ...
... has come out to tell all the woke losers and lefties to leave him and Trump alone!
This is the top of a long post from Willis' Facebook page:
The writer of "Y.M.C.A." is telling you to leave Trump alone and to STOP CALLING HIS SONG GAY!
Yes, Trump and the straights have reclaimed "Y.M.C.A."
Willis goes on to explain that in 2020 he went along with the mob and asked BMI, the distributor of "Y.M.C.A.," to stop Trump from playing the song at his rallies. But then Willis saw everyone piling on - so many triggered artists stopping Trump from using their music - and he decided not to cancel Trump's favorite jam.
He halted the legal process that would've stopped Trump from using the song at his rallies, and since then Willis has seen nothing but blue skies.
Here's some more of his lengthy Facebook post:
In fact, I started noticing numerous artists withdrawing the President Elect's use of their material. But by the time I said to my wife one day, hey, 'Trump' seems to genuinely like Y.M.C.A. and he's having a lot of fun with it.
As such, I simply didn't have the heart to prevent his continued use of my song in the face of so many artists withdrawing his use of their material. So I told my wife to inform BMI to not withdraw the Trump campaign political use license. My French partners were contemplating legal action out of France. So I had my wife contact our French partners and asked them to stay out of the Trump campaign's use of Y.M.C.A. because it is a U.S. matter, and I will make the decision on his use. Our French partners quickly backed off of their objection to his use.
Y.M.C.A. has benefited greatly from use by the President Elect. For example, Y.M.C.A. was stuck at #2 on the Billboard chart prior to the President Elect's use. However, the song finally made it to #1 on a Billboard chart after over 45 years (and held on to #1 for two weeks) due to the President Elect's use.
The financial benefits have been great as well as Y.M.C.A. is estimated to gross several million dollars since the President Elect's continued use of the song. Therefore, I'm glad I allowed the President Elect's continued use of Y.M.C.A. And I thank him for choosing to use my song.
Trump made the Village People song a billboard #1 hit!
Bigger now than it was during its heyday 45 years ago!
That's called the Trump effect!
Willis also wants to make one thing clear: He wrote YMCA, he's not gay, and so please stop calling the song a "gay anthem."
There's been a lot of talk, especially of late, that Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem. As I've said numerous times in the past, that is a false assumption based on the fact that my writing partner was gay, and some (not all) of Village People were gay, and that the first Village People album was totally about gay life.
This assumption is also based on the fact that the YMCA was apparently being used as some sort of gay hangout and since one of the writers was gay and some of the Village People are gay, the song must be a message to gay people. To that I say once again, get your minds out of the gutter. It is not ...
Therefore, since I wrote the lyrics and ought to know what the lyrics I wrote is really about, come January 2025, my wife will start suing each and every news organization that falsely refers to Y.M.C.A., either in their headlines or alluded to in the base of the story, that Y.M.C.A. is somehow a gay anthem because such notion is based solely on the song's lyrics alluding to elicit activity for which it does not. However, I don't mind that gays think of the song as their anthem.
You hear that, people?
The YMCA song has been delivered!
Hallelujah!
You gotta love the Trump effect!
No way I'm leaving here without giving you this:
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