You probably haven’t thought about Semisonic for ooh, over 20 years, have you (if ever)? But all of a sudden the agreeably melodic post-grunge group - best known in the UK for their 1999 hit Secret Smile - are in the headlines again.
The reason? They’ve become the latest group whose music has been purloined by Donald Trump. Their late '90s hit Closing Time has been used to accompany footage of United States Customs and Border Protection officials handcuffing and searching detainees, which has been posted by the White House’s official Twitter account. Semisonic have confirmed that they did not “authorise or condone” the use of the track.
