On Jan. 30, the documentary Melania, focused on First Lady Melania Trump, was released, and since then, the controversial film has proven to be quite divisive for a variety of reasons. Adding to the controversy, a prominent musician is now demanding that a piece of music he composed be removed from the film.
Jonny Greenwood, of the rock bands Radiohead and The Smile, and director Paul Thomas Anderson requested that a part of the score from Anderson's 2017 film, Phantom Thread, be removed from Melania after discovering that it was used in the film.
Greenwood and Anderson said in a statement to Variety, "It has come to our attention that a piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used in the Melania documentary."
Going on, the statement explained why they are making the request, saying, "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.”
As of writing, there's no news of a response from Melania or the team behind the documentary.
Phantom Thread is a period drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, and Lesley Manville, focusing on a successful dressmaker, played by Day-Lewis, in 1950s London. Greenwood composed all of the music for the film. He also composed the score for Anderson's previous films, The Master, Inherent Vice, and There Will Be Blood.
The Radiohead guitarist most recently worked with Anderson on his award-winning 2025 filmOne Battle After Another.
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In a 2018 interview with Adam Buxton on his podcast, Greenwood shared a little insight into the process of making the score for Phantom Thread, saying that he wanted it to be relatively simple, but "Paul just kept asking for bigger and bigger string section sounds. The romance, the big lush thing."
"He basically likes to take the piss out of me, and was joking about how unromantic Radiohead is," Greenwood said of the director. "And [he] said, ‘Come on, you must have some romance in you. Give me more strings.’ And he wanted the music to be really English and really romantic and be written by me, which feels like a big three-way contradiction now I’ve said that.”
Phantom Thread ended up being nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, although it didn't win.
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