{"id":2031954,"date":"2025-09-18T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2031954"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:37:25","slug":"jimmy-kimmels-last-music-guest-margo-price-sings-bastards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-kimmels-last-music-guest-margo-price-sings-bastards\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s Last Music Guest: Margo Price Sings &#8216;Bastards&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Country singer Margo Price sang defiant \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Bastards Get You Down\u201d on Tuesday night\u2019s show. Kimmel was later forced off the air by FCC<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/margo-price\/\" id=\"auto-tag_margo-price\" data-tag=\"margo-price\">Margo Price<\/a> performed her defiant anthem \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Bastards Get You Down\u201d on Tuesday night\u2019s <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live!<\/em> \u2014 and it just may turn out to be the late-night show\u2019s last musical performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn Wednesday, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/v\" target=\"_blank\">ABC pulled Kimmel\u2019s show<\/a> from the air over comments the host made surrounding the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during Tuesday night\u2019s monologue. Kimmel said, in part, that some right-wingers were trying to \u201cscore political points\u201d in the aftermath of the shooting, and also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk\">played a clip<\/a> of President Trump responding to a question about Kirk\u2019s death by crowing about a new ballroom he\u2019s constructing at the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tApparently, this was too much for Nexstar, \u201cAmerica\u2019s largest local television broadcasting group,\u201d and ABC and its parent company, Disney, bowed to Nexstar\u2019s pressure. \u201c<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel-live\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel-live\">Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a> <\/em>will be pre-empted indefinitely,\u201d an ABC spokesperson told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. The spokesperson did not clarify the reason behind the decision. (Earlier on Wednesday, Trump\u2019s Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, publicly\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bulwarkonline\/status\/1968392506711613526?s=46\">called on<\/a>\u00a0licensed broadcasters to stop airing Kimmel\u2019s show.)<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Margo Price \u2013 Don\u2019t Let The Bastards Get You Down\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58SJBhyGTHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIf Kimmel doesn\u2019t return \u2014\u00a0Trump, in a TruthSocial post, said the show was \u201ccancelled\u201d \u2014\u00a0that would make Price\u2019s performance an ironic capstone to the series\u2019 22-year run. \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Bastards Get You Down,\u201d off the Nashville country singer\u2019s latest album, <em>Hard Headed Woman,<\/em> was inspired by both <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> author Margaret Atwood and a quote that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kris-kristofferson-activist-causes-farm-workers-1235120247\/\">Kris Kristofferson said<\/a> to comfort Sinead O\u2019Connor in 1992 after the Irish singer was booed after tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on <em>Saturday Night Live.<\/em> Price began her Kimmel performance by tearing up a sheet of paper that read simply \u201cBastards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI wrote this song three years ago, and it was started about my anger at the music industry and the people I was working with,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/nashville-now-podcast-margo-price-1235391452\/\">Price told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> during an appearance on the <em>Nashville Now<\/em> podcast this summer. \u201cIt\u2019s funny how that businessman can very easily be anyone who is in a seat of power and corrupting the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country singer Margo Price sang defiant \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Bastards Get You Down\u201d on Tuesday night\u2019s show. Kimmel was later forced off the air by FCC Margo Price performed her defiant anthem \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Bastards Get You Down\u201d on Tuesday night\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live! \u2014 and it just may turn out to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[23060,345661,339695],"class_list":["post-2031954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-margo-price"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jimmy-Kimmels-Last-Music-Guest-Margo-Price-Sings-Bastards.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}