Queer pop star Kesha has expressed her utter disgust at the White House for using her song Blow in a TikTok video promoting war and minimizing its seriousness.
The video depicts a series of military planes taking flight, as well as a ship being blown up by a missile. Kesha’s Blow lyrics play in the background.
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“It’s come to my attention that The White House has used one of my songs on TikTok to incite violence and threaten war,” the singer wrote in a March 2 Instagram story. Trying to make light of war is disgusting and inhumane.”
“I absolutely do NOT approve of my music being used to promote violence of any kind. Love always trumps hate. please love yourself and each other in times like this. This show of blatant disregard for human life and quite frankly this attack on all our nervous systems is the opposite of what I stand for.”
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The video did not have a caption or specify what it was referring to, but it likely was taunting Iran and threatening military action against the nation, which the United States ultimately followed through with. On February 28, Trump enraged Americans across the country after the United States joined with Israel to attack Iran, starting a war in the region that critics contend is pointless.
Kesha also brought up a reason many people are pointing to for the president’s decision to go to war: to distract from the Epstein Files.
“Also, don’t let this distract us from the fact that criminal predator Donald Trump appears in the Files over a million times,” she wrote.
That one million figure comes from a claim by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who told Axios in February that Trump’s name came up over a million times when he searched for it in the unredacted files.
Kesha is not the first celebrity to condemn the White House for using her music. In December, Sabrina Carpenter was horrified to discover it used her song Juno in a video promoting ICE actions. Carpenter wrote that the video was “evil and disgusting.”
“Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda,” she said.
A month earlier, Olivia Rodrigo voiced similar horror after the administration used her song All-American B*tch in a video encouraging undocumented immigrants to self-deport. Rodrigo wrote in a comment on the post that was ultimately deleted, “don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda.”
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