Audible Aids Band From the 90s Is Mad That Trump Sampled Their Song

A band from yesteryear is seizing the PR opportunity to whine about their music being featured in a video posted on social media by the White House.

Yesterday the White House posted a video showing around 200 Tren de Aragua and MS-13 members boarding two planes before being flown back to El Salvador in the dead of Saturday night.

The music in the video is “Closing Time” by a 90s band called Semisonic, a band comprised of stringy-haired whiny one-hit-wonders whose song is about closing time at the bar. I am not linking it here because it is audible AIDS and I care about your health.

“The song,” they write with an appropriated air of snobbery, is about “joy and possibilities and hope.” Oh, get real. It’s about the lights coming up, tabs closing out, last calls, and beer goggles. Such banger lyrics:

“Closing time, time for you to go out
To the places you will be from …”

Yes, because you see, the places people go to are the places from whence they came — SOMEONE CALL THE PULITZER COMMITTEE, for we have among us some undiscovered bards who’ve revolutionized rhyme and meter. Perhaps they can share the grave with Shakespeare some day whenever they shuffle off of this mortal coil.

Don’t forget the melodramatic chorus where Whatshisface McLeadsinger tinnily brays “I know who I want to take me home” eleventy hundred times. By the end of the first chorus we all were pleading with anyone in the song’s bar to please, for the love of all things holy, take him home so he shuts up. This song was the plague of my coming-to-age phase. It was everywhere, and not even at closing time most of the time — although bars did take to playing it at closing time due to the song’s wonderful effect of clearing out rooms.

I suppose pretending as though there’s deeper meaning beyond “Yo, bar’s closing, GTFO” justifies, in the band’s mind, their overreacting to the song’s use in the video. It’s amusing how so many of these artists sign deals to license out their music to ASCAP/BMI, et al., but then complain about the usage afterwards. Just dry your tears with your new cash, you whingers.

Why couldn’t the band not say anything at all — or if they must, just say “ha ha while we don’t endorse Trump’s views it is closing time for Tren de Aragua and MS-13?” Are they sad that violent, repeat offending illegal aliens were let to freely run our streets while El Salvador greeted them with multiple SWAT teams and a military escort? Are they sad that these violent offenders were forced to leave?

This is the problem with the left. Their tribalism is so great that they will refuse to acknowledge the merit of something we all agreed on just ten years ago merely out of protest to Trump. I wouldn’t even call that tribalism at this point, it’s just lunacy.

I get that Semisonic is eager to absence-of-virtue signal as a grab for publicity, but this isn’t the flex they think it is.

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