{"id":563861,"date":"2026-07-01T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/563861\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:46:13","slug":"bryan-adams-takes-swipe-at-donald-trump-on-51st-state-protest-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/563861\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Adams Takes Swipe at Donald Trump On ’51st State’ Protest Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBryan Adams<\/a> has a very clear message for anyone down South who thinks his home country of Canada is on the market: \u201cWe\u2019ll never be the 51st state.\u201d The Ontario-bred rocker released a pointed protest<\/a> song aimed at an audience of one on Wednesday (July 1), just in time for Canada Day, which this year celebrates the 159th anniversary of Confederation for our neighbors to the North.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201c51st State,\u201d was released on YouTube and other social media platforms as a spicy rejoinder to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s repeated musings about absorbing the sovereign nation into the fold and making it, well, just refer back to the song\u2019s title.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re way better hand in hand\/ But the 49th parallel\/ Has become a line drawn in the sand\/ Let me give it to you straight\/ When you\u2019re talking about my home\/ You better show some respect\/ Cuz up here we take care of our own,\u201d Adams sings on the energetic rock tune preaching national unity in the face of threats of a hostile takeover.<\/p>\n

\n\tWithout specifically naming Trump, but leaving little doubt as to his target, Adams also takes a swing at another one of Trump\u2019s favorite economic warfare cudgels when he warns, \u201cSo let me give you some advice mister\/ You might have too much on your plate\/ Go\u2019n load us up with tari\ufb00s\/ But we\u2019ll never be the 51st State.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor much of his second term, Trump has made repeated threats about annexing Canada, while imposing a series of on-and-off again tariffs. That unprovoked saber-rattling has resulted in an upsurge of Canadian unity and national pride, as well as retaliatory tariffs on energy exports, consumer boycotts of U.S. products and the pulling of American liquor from store shelves in some regions.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cSummer of \u201969\u201d star also includes a pointed reminder of the mutually beneficial, century-plus relationship between the two nations that share the longest (5,525 miles) international land boundary in the world. \u201cMaybe you\u2019ve forgotten\/ Maybe you just don\u2019t care\/ But we always stood beside you\/ For that liberty we share,\u201d he says, warning in the most Canadian way that if pushed to the brink, his legendarily polite fellow citizens might not be so nice this time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou can push us to the brink\/ But where the open road divides\/ You\u2019ll find a wall of maple\/ With us on the other side,\u201d he sings. Adams, who released his 16th studio album, Roll With the Punches, last August on his own Bad Records label \u2014\u00a0which also issued \u201c51st State\u201d \u2014\u00a0is scheduled to hit the road in the U.S. this summer beginning with a July 24 show at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

\n\tListen to \u201c51st State\u201d below.<\/p>\n


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