Kesha is slamming President Trump for unauthorized use of her track “Blow” in a TikTok posted to the White Home‘s account final month.
In a Monday (March 2) Instagram Story and X submit, Kesha accuses the administration of utilizing her track to “incite violence and threaten struggle.” She goes on to say that she doesn’t approve of her music “getting used to advertise violence of any sort” and that that is “the other of what I stand for.”
Kesha’s submit concludes by calling Trump a “felony predator” and saying that this could not distract us from Trump being named within the Epstein Recordsdata greater than one million occasions. (Based on The New York Instances, there have been 38,000 mentions of Trump’s title within the public paperwork launched in January associated to late baby intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.)
Kesha is simply the most recent in a listing of artists who’ve referred to as out the White Home and the Trump administration for unauthorized use of their music in promotional movies, social media posts and rallies.
In December, the White Home quietly deleted an ICE video shared to X that includes Sabrina Carpenter’s track “Juno” after the pop star responded calling the video “evil and disgusting.” Carpenter then mentioned to the administration to not contain her or her music “to profit your inhumane agenda.”
This was not the tip of the Carpenter-White Home saga: Simply days later, the White Home doubled down with an edited video clipped from the Grammy winner’s Saturday Evening Stay promo. Within the submit, Carpenter seems to be saying “I believe I’d have to arrest somebody for being too unlawful,” nonetheless, the phrase “unlawful” is clearly falsified. Within the authentic promo, Carpenter says to SNL’s Marcello Hernandez that she’s arresting him for being too sizzling. Very similar to the ICE footage, the edited video has since been taken down as properly.
Different artists who’ve fought again in opposition to the Trump administration utilizing their music embrace Olivia Rodrigo, Celine Dion and Foo Fighters. SZA additionally referred to as out the administration for his or her sample of utilizing in style music as a distraction, saying, “White Home rage baiting artists at no cost promo is PEAK DARK,” in a December submit to X.
On the time of publication, the White Home has not eliminated the “Blow” TikTok — which has 1.8 million likes and practically 17 thousand feedback — nor responded to Kesha’s Instagram Story.
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