White House Used Katy Perry's Song for Video of Strikes on Iran. She Didn't Like It
The White House published a video featuring footage of military strikes set to the song Fireworks with the caption "Iran has been warned."
Singer Katy Perry criticized the White House for using her song Fireworks in a video about American military strikes on Iran, reports USA Today.
On July 23, the official TikTok account of the White House published a video featuring footage of military strikes, using Perry's song as the soundtrack and playing on the lines "boom boom boom" — with the caption "Iran has been warned."
Iran has been warned.
After this, Perry wrote on X that she was "deeply shocked and outraged" and that she had not given permission and emphatically did not approve of such use.
The singer explained that she wrote the song as an anthem of hope and inner strength for people going through difficult times, and turning it into a soundtrack for destruction and violence is "a complete twisting into a totally distorted meaning."
I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.
I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and…
Trump's deputy assistant, Kayleigh Door, responded to Perry's post by publishing an excerpt from her 2012 music video 'Part of Me,' where she is in a military training camp, with the caption "Is this you?"
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