By Laura Italiano, Business Insider | Donald Trump’s lawyers asked Eddy Grant to “explain” his 1980s dance hit, “Electric Avenue,” a bizarre, newly public deposition transcript shows. It didn’t go well.
The singer-songwriter bristled when asked about the disco-reggae song’s meaning, according to the transcript, filed Friday as part of his $300,000 federal copyright lawsuit over the song’s use in a 2020 Trump campaign tweet.
“Do I have to?” Grant answered when asked: “So can you please explain what the song is about?”
“We can stay here all day,” Grant told two lawyers for Trump, “And I can go round and round with this,” Grant continued.
“But the bottom line of it is that — sorry. The bottom line of the song is that it is a protest against social conditions, and then I can pick out the words to — I mean, obviously you’ve got those words there, I suppose,” he told the former president’s lawyers.
At this point in the transcript, Grant recites his lyrics: “Now in the street there is violence, and there’s lots of work to be done.”
Then he interrupted himself, the transcript shows.
“Well,” he said. “You know, I could go a long — you know, I mean, do we have to?”
Grant sued Trump and his 2020 campaign three years ago after a 40-second snippet of “Electric Avenue” was used without authorization in an animation mocking then-candidate Joe Biden. The animation shows Biden puttering along on a slow-moving hand-car as Trump zooms past him in a high-speed train.
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[COMBO Editor’s note: To me, it doesn’t matter what the lyrics are. If someone tells you not to use their song for any reason, then you should honor that request and not use the song, especially in politics where the use may be construed by the public as the writer(s) “endorsing” a candidate. For the lyrics to “Electric Avenue,” see our Lyrics category.]
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