Pelican 212 - Concert from the 2016 W.C. Fair
All eyes were onDonald Trumpat hisinaugural Freedom Ball, but all ears were on The Piano Guys cover songs.
Country artistRachel Plattencalled out the musical act after they performedan unauthorized cover of herpopular singleFight Song.
While I respect the office of the President and the peaceful transfer of power, Platten said in a series of two tweets, I want to make clear that at no point did the Piano Guys ask for permission, nor did I or anyone on my team know of, approve or endorse their decision to play Fight Song tonight.
At the event, the Utah-based music group played a mash-up of Amazing Grace and Fight Song which was the anthem at many Hillary Clinton campaign rallies last year, including atthe Democratic National Convention.
But Platten wasnt the only one who was frustrated withThe Piano Guys.
Savan Kotecha,the songwriter of One Directions What Makes You Beautiful, threatened to sue after his song wasplayed by the foursome at the same inaugural ball.
They were absolutely NOT given permission to use WMYB at the inaugural ball. I will be looking into taking action, Kotecha tweeted.
Theres nothing I can do re WMYB now, but the song was written out of love for my wife. Its just heartbreaking that it was used tocelebrated (sic) a man who stands for divisiveness, he concluded his series of tweets.
The Piano Guysalso performed Kotechas What Makes You Beautiful at Trumps Make America Great Again inaugural concert on Thursday.
Following their inaugural ball performance, The Piano Guys released a statement via Twitter. Our performance tonight, which combined Fight Song and Amazing Grace had nothing to do with Hillary Clinton or politics, the group wrote in one tweet.
Concluding, We chose to perform our version of Fight Song/Amazing Grace it was not endorsed by Rachel Platten. We love Rachel and we love her song.
Thecollection of performers at Fridays soires included singer Sam Moore, Silhouettes, the rockettes, pelican 212, the Piano Guys, Circus 1903, Cache Olson, Lexi Walker and Erin Boheme.
The Trumps slow danced to a live cover of My Way famously first recorded by Frank Sinatra at the Freedom and Liberty b***s, and danced to a rendition ofWhitney Houstons I Will Always Love You at the Armed Services Ball.
Source: http://people.com/music/donald-trumps-inaugural-ball-music-act-the-piano-guys-face-backlash/
