{"id":488851,"date":"2026-02-25T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488851\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:38:10","slug":"melania-producer-reveals-which-artists-refused-to-allow-their-songs-to-be-included-in-the-film-globe-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/488851\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Melania\u2019 Producer Reveals Which Artists Refused to Allow Their Songs to Be Included in the Film \u2013 Globe Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" MPI34\/Capital Pictures \/ MEGA<\/p>\n

There has been no shortage of controversy surrounding Melania Trump\u2019s<\/a> self-titled documentary. Now, a producer and close advisor to the First Lady is speaking candidly about some of the artists who denied allowing their work to be featured in the movie and its soundtrack.<\/p>\n

In a story published by Variety<\/a> on Monday, Feburary 23, Marc Beckman mentioned a slew of artists who he believes let their opposing views get in the way of allowing their music in the doc, in addition to Radiohead\u2019s Jonny Greenwood and film director Paul Thomas Anderson, who were upset at the team behind Melania for using a soundtrack cue from the movie The Phantom Thread. (Anderson directed the 2017 film, while Greenwood composed the score.)<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere was music that we tried to get, but sadly, there were politics to it,\u201d the producer said. \u201cFor example, the guys from Guns N\u2019 Roses split down the middle politically. There was a beautiful song we wanted to use, and one of the guys \u2014 I don\u2019t want to name, it\u2019s not fair \u2014said, \u2018You got it. Go.\u2019 And the other one was basically like, \u2018There\u2019s just no way.’\u201d<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t the only ones to turn down Melania producers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a song that we wanted to use from Grace Jones; obviously, also a tremendous amount of respect for her,\u201d Beckman said. \u201cShe apparently couldn\u2019t get over the political hurdle, notwithstanding the fact that the film is not a political film. So that was disappointing, too. It\u2019s disappointing when people put politics so far ahead, and that happened a little bit with the film, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also revealed they were close to getting a Prince track on the film, but his estate stopped them.<\/p>\n

\"\" MPI34\/Capital Pictures \/ MEGA<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were ready to go, and this lawyer that manages the estate was like, \u2018Prince would never want his song associated with Donald Trump<\/a>,’\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd we\u2019re like, \u2018But it\u2019s not a Donald Trump film! He comes into the movie once in a while, but this is all about Melania. It\u2019s not political.\u2019 And that guy blocked it. It\u2019s so ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Beckman\u2019s assertion that the movie is apolitical, the documentary follows the First Lady in a very political time \u2014 the 20 days leading up to her husband\u2019s second inauguration in early 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MPI34\/Capital Pictures \/ MEGA There has been no shortage of controversy surrounding Melania Trump\u2019s self-titled documentary. Now, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,91,88],"class_list":["post-488851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}