Lara Trump’s music career continues to meet unkind reviews after she released a new single on Monday.
The daughter-in-law of the former president and current co-chair of the Republican National Committee has faced harsh criticism, especially from liberals, of her forays into singing in the past.
The outrage reached a new level after she dropped ‘Hero’ on Monday, a collaboration with songwriter Madeline Jaymes that pays tribute to firefighters and first responders.
On social media, Trump was ridiculed by liberals and anti-Trump Republicans, with Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson saying she sounded ‘like a wild hog and a sack of rusty cans being thrown into an industrial wood chipper’.
The song’s lyrics seem to deride taking credit from social media, with Trump singing: ‘It takes a lot to put you last and everybody first. No, this can’t be for likes. With your heart, they can make gold.’
Lara Trump’s music career continues to meet unkind reviews after she released a new single on Monday
One social media user wrote: ‘It is HEAVILY auto tuned, yet it is still clear that she is a no talent attention w***e’.
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‘What did our eardrums do to deserve this?’ asked another.
Both Trump and Jaymes were slammed by one poster, writing: ‘Watching the Hero music video by Lara Trump and Madeline Jaymes is like witnessing two AI clones being thrown down a flight of stairs desperately trying to harmonize on the way down.’
Actor and That Thing You Do star Ethan Embry added: ‘It’s not fair to criticize Lara Trump’s new song if you haven’t primed yourself with the pain of not just truly listening to the computerized tone of her voice, but also seen her miming of playing the piano, and suffered the poetry of her ghost writers lyrics’.
One other X user compared her to the likes of Yoko Ono, Sanjaya, ‘crying babies & a pack of feral dogs’.
The RNC co-chair, who is married to Eric Trump, posted her first original single in April, which she called: ‘A little something I had fun with over the winter (and a few more too that I’ll save for a future date, special for my YUGE fans in the liberal media).’
The ballad is available on multiple platforms including Spotify, iTunes and YouTube and includes lyrics like ‘you can’t give up, know that anything is possible’ and ‘I’ve had my ups and downs, cried when no one’s around, still I got to put my game face on, even when I’m not feeling strong.’
Last September, Trump, 41, released a cover and acoustic version of Tom Petty’s 1989 song ‘I Won’t Back Down.’
The daughter-in-law of the former president and current co-chair of the Republican National Committee has faced harsh criticism, especially from liberals, of her foray into singing in the past
At the time, Trump accused Apple Music of shadow banning her during the release of her song, claiming the company ‘discriminated’ against her by refusing to put up an ad with the ‘Trump’ name on it.
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The former TV producer said that soon after the song came out last September, she received a slew of messages from people who told her they were unable to locate it online.
Lara also alleged that she had paid for a billboard in New York City’s Times Square to promote the new song through media company Clear Channel.
But she said she was told by the agency just hours before it was meant to go live that they didn’t want to run it with her full moniker because ‘the Trump name is a problem,’ which Lara slammed as ‘discriminatory’ and ‘insulting.’
Both versions of ‘I Won’t Back Down’ as well as her new single ‘Anything is Possible’ do currently come up when Lara Trump is searched on iTunes, and it is listed when the song titles are searched.
Trump’s first original song is getting mixed reviews online.
One X user praised it as a ‘beautiful song’ and another called it ‘Really great.’
But others were not so welcoming of the new content.
The outrage reached a new level after she dropped ‘Hero’ on Monday, a collaboration with songwriter Madeline Jaymes that pays tribute to firefighters and first responders
One user wrote ‘Are you threatening to sing until we donate?’ While another suggested she needs to concentrate on winning elections.
While chatting with DailyMail.com about her newfound music career, Lara insisted that she’s ‘not trying to be a professional singer,’ but that she just wants to share her ‘love of music.’
‘I love music, I’ve played the piano my whole life, my kids love listening to me play the piano,’ Lara gushed.
‘I love playing music that you can sing along to. But I’m not trying to be a professional singer.
‘There are so many professional singers out there with so much talent and I don’t consider myself to be one of them.’
As for how the recording came to be, 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 were like, “Wait you don’t sing, do you?” And I was like, “Yeah in the car, or at karaoke.'”
‘I don’t have any grand aspirations to be a singer, but this just seemed so fun, I mean what a cool experience. And it’s a great song, Tom Petty did an incredible job.
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‘I also feel like it really represents what our country feels right now. So many people are struggling, so many people are frustrated with the direction our country is going, and they feel like they’re just being told to lie down and take it. So this felt like a perfect fit for the moment.’
Back in 2020, Donald was hit with a cease-and-desist letter from the family of the late musician Tom – who passed away from an accidental drug overdose at age 66 in 2017 – after I Won’t Back Down was played at one of his rallies in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
When asked previously by Political Flare about what the Petty family might think of her doing a cover of his song, Lara stated, ‘I got no message for the Petty family because I don’t even think about them.’