Adele is going through a major career revival right now, after last year's insanely successful "Hello" and the subsequent 25 album, and it seems like everything she says and does turns into gold these days. In the meantime, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has been using her 2010 hit, "Rolling in the Deep," during his campaign rallies -- and it turns out he's not legally allowed to.
According to CNN, one of the singer's spokespeople was asked whether Trump had permission to use Adele's music for his campaign rallies, as he's been playing a few of her songs all over the country.
"Adele has not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning," said one of her reps, and the singer's spokesman Benny Tarantini then added that the team had "no further comment" on the subject.
Besides "Rolling in the Deep," the billionaire-turned-politician has also used Adele's Oscar-winning James Bond theme, "Skyfall," to prep up his supporters.
As the BBC reports, this isn't the first time Trump gets into trouble for his use of music during the campaign. A few months back, Aerosmith frontman and the songwriter for most of the band's tunes, Steven Tyler, said that Trump had been using the 1973 hit "Dream On" without permission, asking the candidate to stop this and even taking legal action through a cease-and-desist letter.
Trump's campaign stopped using the Aerosmith song a while back, and the candidate took advantage of the move to say Tyler had gotten "more publicity on his song request than he's gotten in 10 years."
Steven Tyler got more publicity on his song request than he’s gotten in ten years. Good for him!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2015
According to The Independent, it's also not the first time the controversial candidate annoyed Adele fans. Last November, the Grammy winner gave an exclusive performance at the Radio City Music Hall and Trump apparently "cut the line" to reach his seat quicker, prompting the wrath of many of those non-billionaires who had gone to the famous venue to see Adele.
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