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Gang Of Four build song out of Ivanka Trump quotes
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 17 April 2018
Gang Of Four have released the first single from their upcoming EP, ‘Complicit’. Titled ‘Ivanka (Things You Can’t Have)’, the song discusses Donald Trump’s daughter and White House colleague.
The song’s lyrics stitch together quotes from Ivanka Trump about herself and her father. The band’s Andy Gill explains: “It would’ve been easy to be extremely damning about Donald Trump and of course, like everyone else, I could have called him all kinds of names. What drew me to this subject at all was the running commentary from Ivanka in the earlier stages of this administration”.
“It was fascinating to get a kind of explanation or justification from the daughter who had already been given an official position within the White House”, he continues. “And frankly, a lot of it was pretty funny. But although the characters in the Trump family are interesting, it’s more the ideologies and politics which they represent and enable which need describing”.
Although the band reports that some US distributors have been “a little nervous” about handling the EP – the artwork of which features a photo of Ivanka Trump and the word “complicit” – it is still set for release this Friday.
Listen to ‘Ivanka (Things You Can’t Have)’ here.
