{"id":482685,"date":"2019-02-25T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=799924"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:46:17","slug":"watch-clean-bandit-ellie-goulding-parody-trump-in-mama-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-clean-bandit-ellie-goulding-parody-trump-in-mama-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Clean Bandit, Ellie Goulding Parody Trump in \u2018Mama\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/clean-bandit-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clean Bandit and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ellie-goulding\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ellie-goulding\" data-tag=\"ellie-goulding\">Ellie Goulding<\/a> parody Donald Trump in their new \u201cMama\u201d video, ruminating on how one destructive father-son relationship can negatively impact the whole planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The electro-pop band wrote and directed the intriguing clip, which examines a Trump-like character from childhood through a military stint to, eventually, a surprise presidential win. The band follows a trail of toxicity through several key episodes in the man\u2019s life: Being laughed at in elementary school, his dad pushing him in a swimming pool and groping a mad, smiling as one soldier beats up another and\u2014in what seems like a reference to Trump\u2019s proposed border initiative\u2014building a wall out of blocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As the election results pour in, the politician eats fast food in his bedroom and makes a panicked phone call to an advisor. During the song\u2019s acoustic epilogue, the character slow-dances with his wife on a floor boasting the slogan \u201cDamaging Our Children Can Damage the Entire World.\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">The band didn\u2019t specify Trump by name in the clip or in an accompanying statement, noting they wrote the script \u201cabout a boy whose power was taken away from him as a child and he grew up determined to take that power back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMama\u201d is the latest single from Clean Bandit\u2019s second LP, 2018\u2019s <em>What Is Love?<\/em> The album also features guest spots from Demi Lovato (\u201cSolo\u201d), Marina and Luis Fonsi (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-clean-bandit-feat-marina-and-luis-fonsi-baby-757547\/\">\u201cBaby\u201d<\/a>), Rita Ora (\u201cNowhere\u201d), Big Boi (\u201cOut at Night\u201d) and Julia Michaels (\u201cI Miss You\u201d), among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/clean-bandit-ellie-goulding-donald-trump-mama-video-799924\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean Bandit and Ellie Goulding parody Donald Trump in their new \u201cMama\u201d video, ruminating on how one destructive father-son relationship can negatively impact the whole planet. The electro-pop band wrote and directed the intriguing clip, which examines a Trump-like character from childhood through a military stint to, eventually, a surprise presidential win. 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