Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood want Phantom Thread track removed from Melania

The Radiohead guitarist says he wasn't asked for permission to have his composition featured in the doc.

Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood want Phantom Thread track removed from Melania

Perhaps there is a person out there who is a fan of Phantom Thread who also paid money to see Melania, the documentary about President Trump’s wife. Perhaps this hypothetical person, sitting in a dark and maybe mostly-empty theater, noticed that a segment of Jonny Greenwood’s score for Phantom Thread appears in a scene of the documentary. Greenwood and Paul Thomas Anderson have noticed, albeit about ten days after the doc premiered, and they aren’t particularly happy to see the Oscar-nominated score featured in a propaganda piece.  

“It has come to our attention that a piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used in the ‘Melania‘ documentary,” said Anderson and Greenwood in a statement obtained by Variety. “While Jonny Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, Universal failed to consult Jonny on this third-party use which is a breach of his composer agreement. As a result Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary.”

There are many reasons why someone might not want their work associated with Melania, from its water-carrying for the regime to its direction from an accused sexual predator. From the looks of it, both Anderson and Greenwood have mostly managed to not have any kind of public association with Trump throughout the years, though Greenwood’s Radiohead bandmate Thom Yorke has spoken out against him a handful of times through the years.

 
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