Lara Trump has accused Apple Music of shadowbanning her during the release of her new song “I Won’t Back Down” – and claimed that a Times Square billboard company “discriminated” against her by refusing to do so Place an ad with the “Trump” logo. names on it.
Lara, 40, the wife of former President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump, released a cover of Tom Petty’s 1989 track on Friday – but she claimed that streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify are “largely burying it.” “ and have made it almost impossible to find due to their family history.
“Unfortunately, that’s to be expected with our last name.” “I wish I was surprised, but I’m not,” she told exclusively.
The former television producer explained that shortly after the song was released at midnight, she received a lot of messages from people telling her that they couldn’t find it online.
Lara Trump has accused Apple Music of secretly banning her during the release of her new song “I Won’t Back Down.”
Lara, 40, the wife of former President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump, released a cover of Tom Petty’s 1989 title on Friday
But she has claimed that because of her family, streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify have “largely buried” it and made it nearly impossible to find. She was seen with her father-in-law
“The song was released at midnight and today I’m getting all these messages from people saying they’re looking for my song on Apple Music and they can’t find it or it’s buried way down,” she continued.
If you search for “I Won’t Back Down” on Apple Music, Lara’s rendition of the song won’t appear in the results
“I haven’t contacted Apple because I leave that to my music producer, but it’s obvious to everyone what’s happening.” My song isn’t even listed as an option for [some] People.’
If you search for “I Won’t Back Down” on Apple Music, Lara’s rendition of the song won’t appear in the results.
And when you click on Lara’s name, the tune only appears among eight other songs – including parody tracks like a fake rap battle between her father-in-law and Hillary Clinton and a song called Fake News II.
Additionally, when you enter the track name on Spotify, it will not be listed in the results and will only be accessible if you search for their full name.
has contacted Spotify and Apple Music for comment.
Lara also claimed that she paid for a billboard in Times Square in New York City to promote the new song through a media company called Clear Channel.
But she said she was told by the agency just hours before it was actually published that they didn’t want to publish it with her full pseudonym because “the Trump name is a problem,” which Lara called “discriminatory” and “offensive.” .’
And when you click on Lara’s name, the tune only appears among eight other songs – including parody tracks like a fake rap battle between her father-in-law and Hillary Clinton
Additionally, when you enter the track name on Spotify, it will not be listed in the results and will only be accessible if you search for their full name
“Unfortunately, that’s to be expected with our last name.” “I wish I was surprised, but I’m not,” Lara (seen with her husband Eric in April) told exclusively
“We were supposed to put up a billboard in Times Square today with the song cover and my name on it – the kind of thing you’d expect if you played the song in your car, for example,” she shared.
“We signed the contracts a week ago, we paid for them.” But then [two hours before] The billboard should go live. My producer gets an email from him [Clear Channel] said: “The name Trump is a problem for us.”
“They want to put the billboard with no Trump name on it and just Lara on it.” I said, “No. That’s my name. It’s an insult to me and to be honest it feels a little discriminatory.”
Lara’s music producer shared screenshots of an email exchange between her team and a representative from the marketing agency that designed the billboard, writing, “Hey, so the Trump name on the billboard is a problem.” Is that okay? , without the name Trump?’
Lara (seen recording the song) also claimed that a Times Square billboard company “discriminated” against her by refusing to place an ad with the name “Trump.”
A follow-up message sent by the billboard’s organizers just minutes before it was due to go live then informed Lara’s team that her ad had been “rejected” because it promoted a song that “conveys a political message.”
“Upon reviewing your submitted promotional poster, we noticed that it was rejected due to the inclusion of a cover song that conveys a political message,” reads the text, shared with .
“Please note that such content is not permitted on our platform.”
Addressing the billboard company’s rejection, Lara told : “The same billboard company was happy to host ads for Black Lives Matter, Planned Parenthood and Teachers Union… But my song cover is kind of problematic. ‘Disgusting.’
Lara — who previously worked as a story coordinator and producer for Inside Edition from 2012 to 2016 and briefly landed a job as a Fox News contributor from 2021 to 2022 — announced earlier that she would be releasing a cover of the song via her Instagram this month .
At the time, she shared a video of herself recording it with the caption: “I did something crazy today. You can hear it on September 29th.”
While chatting with about her newfound music career, Lara stressed that she’s “not trying to be a professional singer,” but that she just wants to share her “love for music.”
“I love music, I have played the piano my whole life, my kids love listening to me play the piano,” Lara gushed.
She said she paid for the ad, but the agency told her just hours before it was scheduled to go live that it didn’t want to run it with her full pseudonym because “the Trump name is a problem.”
A screenshot of an email from the marketing agency that designed the billboard showed a representative telling Lara’s team that the “Trump name was a problem.”
“I love making music that you can sing along to.” But I’m not trying to be a professional singer.
“There are so many professional singers with so much talent and I don’t consider myself one of them.”
On how the recording came about, she added: “I posted a few videos of myself playing piano on Instagram and these guys reached out to me and asked me if I wanted to play piano on a song.”
“Then they said, ‘Wait, you’re not singing, are you?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, in the car or at karaoke.’
“I don’t have any great ambitions to be a singer, but this was just so much fun, I mean, what a cool experience.” And it’s a great song, Tom Petty did an incredible job.
“I also feel like it really reflects what our country is feeling right now.” So many people are struggling, so many people are frustrated with the direction our country is moving in, and they feel like they’re just told them to lie down and accept things. “This felt like a perfect solution for the moment.”
Since its release, Lara X, formerly known as Twitter, took to Twitter to share her frustration over it not showing up in Apple Music searches.
Since its release, Lara X, formerly known as Twitter, took to Twitter to share her frustration over it not showing up in Apple Music searches
Her husband Eric also called out the company, accusing Apple of imposing a “viscous shadow ban” on his wife in a scathing tweet
While chatting with about her newfound music career, Lara stressed that she’s “not trying to be a professional singer,” but that she just wants to share her “love for music.”
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!['I feel like [the song] “This really reflects what our country feels like right now,” she added. “So many people are frustrated with the direction our country is heading, so this felt like a perfect solution.”](https://www.spamchronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1696014178_765_EXCLUSIVE-Lara-Trump-accuses-Apple-Music-and-Spotify-of-banning.jpg "EXCLUSIVE: Lara Trump accuses Apple Music and Spotify of banning her new country song \"in the shadows\" — and says the Times Square billboard company refused to use her last name in paid advertising for the Tom Petty cover because “that’s a problem” 17")
‘I feel like [the song] “This really reflects what our country feels like right now,” she added. “So many people are frustrated with the direction our country is heading, so this felt like a perfect solution.”
“Hey @Apple – where’s my song?” she posted alongside a screen capture that showed she couldn’t find it. “Why doesn’t my song appear when you search for “I Won’t Back Down”?”
Her husband Eric also called out the company, accusing Apple of imposing a “viscous shadow ban” on his wife in a scathing tweet.
“Breaking: @Apple appears to be severely banning @LaraLeaTrump’s new song, which peaked at #31 on the ITunes charts immediately upon its release,” he wrote.
“Lara’s name, fully typed, is hardly usable and can only be found under Fake News II.” “The song itself is unsearchable.”
When asked if her father-in-law had heard her new song yet, Lara told that she wasn’t sure.
‘I don’t know. “I said to Eric this morning, ‘Do you think I should text your dad?’ And he said he’ll definitely call me later because he’ll hear about it through word of mouth,” she said.
In 2020, Donald was hit with a cease and desist letter from the family of late musician Tom, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017 at the age of 66, after “I Won’t Back Down” was played at one of his rallys held in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
In 2020, Donald received a cease and desist letter from the family of late musician Tom (pictured) after “I Won’t Back Down” was played at one of his rallies in Tulsa, Oklahoma
“Trump had no authority in any way to use this song to promote a campaign that is failing too many Americans and common sense,” they wrote in a statement
Lara (pictured with the Trump family, second from left) previously told Political Flare of her admission: “I didn’t get a message for the Petty family because I don’t even think about them.”
“Trump had no authority in any way to use this song to advance a campaign that is leaving too many Americans and common sense behind,” they wrote in a statement that was subsequently shared on Tom’s Twitter account.
“Both the late Tom Petty and his family stand firmly against racism and discrimination of any kind.”
“Tom Petty would never want a song of his to be used in a hate campaign.” He loved bringing people together.
“Tom wrote this song for the underdog, for the common man and for everyone.” We want to make it clear that we believe everyone is free to choose as they please and think as they please, but the family Petty doesn’t stand for that.
“We believe in America and we believe in democracy.” But Donald Trump does not represent the noble ideals of either.
“We would hate for fans marginalized by this government to think we were complicit in its use.”
“At the same time, we issued an official cease and desist letter to the Trump campaign.”
When asked by Political Flare what the Petty family would think about her doing a cover of his song, Lara replied, “I didn’t get a message for the Petty family because I don’t even think about them.”