The video is soundtracked bySemisonics Closing Time, the 1998 song written by future pop hitmakerDan Wilson.
And no, they didnt ask.
The song is about joy and possibilities and hope, and they have missed the point entirely.
Dan Wilson performing with Semisonic in 2024. The band says, “We did not authorize or condone the White House’s use of our song in any way,”Medios y Media/Getty Images
The White Houses video depicts a young, tattooed, brown-skinned man being led onto a plane in handcuffs.
Closing Time was Semisonics biggest hit, toppingBillboards Alternative Airplay chart and airing regularly on MTV.
The song was inspired by both a defunct Minneapolisbaras well as thebirthof Wilsons daughter.
The song still gets played on the actual radio, Wilson recentlysaidof the song.
And people talk about it like its one of those things that everybody knows.
Closing Time is the song that never fell off the radar.
I have no idea how that happened, but thats what happened.
