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Another music powerhouse has clapped back at the Trump administration's use of their music, with Kesha Rose Sebert slamming the White House and delivering a pretty brutal response. While the likes of the Village People and Kid Rock are more than happy for the President of the United States to be associated with their tracks, the artist known as Ke$ha has made her feelings clear.
Having come a long way from being featured on Flo Rida's "Right Round" in 2009, Kesha's solo career has seen her carve an impressive legacy with tracks like "We R Who We R", "Praying", and "Tik Tok" (not the app). Away from earning two number-one albums on the US Billboard 200, Kesha briefly had her career placed on hold due to legal disputes with her former producer, Dr. Luke.
Although that's since been settled out of court in 2023, Kesha is back from seemingly throwing shade at Katy Perry, and is again showing why she's not a woman to be messed with. This time, she's put Donald Trump and White House in her crosshairs.
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A February 10 clip was shared on TikTok, showing a fighter jet firing a missile at a naval ship and using the caption 'lethality' while accompanied by Kesha's 2011 song, "Blow".
The video has since been liked over two million times, although we know someone who's definitely not a fan.
Posting on Instagram, the artist vented: "It’s come to my attention that The White House has used one of my songs on TikTok to incite violence and threaten war. 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 of our nervous systems is the opposite of what I stand for."
Kesha then mentioned the coveted Epstein files, claiming that videos like this are trying to distract us and concluding: "Also, don’t let this distract us from the fact that criminal predator Donald Trump appears in the Files over a million times."
Kesha’s response landed on the radar of White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung, who quoted her post and added: "All these ‘singers’ keep falling for this. This just gives us more attention and more view counts to our videos because people want to see what they’re bitching about. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
Kesha then shared a more concise retort over on X, when she simply wrote: "Stop using my music, p*rverts @WhiteHouse."
Like the recent backlash from the likes of Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito, Billie Eilish, Bad Bunny, and Marvel's Mark Ruffalo, this isn't the first time the Trump administration has come under fire for using someone's music without authorization. Jess Glynne branded the White House as 'sick' when it jumped on the Jet2 holiday trend with "Hold My Hand." Sabrina Carpenter similarly called out an 'evil and disgusting' pro-ICE post that used "Juno". Elsewhere, Prince's estate reportedly blocked the Melania movie from using the late artist's music, while Adele, Beyoncé, and Celine Dion are among just some of the divas who've demanded their songs aren’t associated with the POTUS.
