Swedish pop star Zara Larsson has condemned the White House for using one of her most recognisable songs in a social media reel.<\/p>\n
The clip used Larsson’s Midnight Sun in a video appearing to show immigration enforcement raids. The song has since been removed from the post, but the video is still visible on the White House’s TikTok feed.<\/p>\n
The video is captioned “never ending deportations”, riffing on Larsson’s lyrics “never-ending midnight sun”. <\/p>\n
In a three-minute reaction video posted on social media, Larsson described the clip as “dehumanising”, joining a growing list of singers, including Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande, who have told the Trump administration to not use their music.<\/p>\n
The BBC has contacted the White House for comment.<\/p>\n
The reel splices together multiple videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, as well as other US law enforcement personnel, handcuffing men and putting them into vehicles.<\/p>\n
Larsson reposted part of the original clip, which then cuts to a selfie video of her using her fingers to hold an ‘L’ shape against her forehead.<\/p>\n
In the reaction video that has already clocked up more than 4.2 million views on TikTok, she tells her followers the White House video is “so dehumanising”.<\/p>\n
Larsson continues: “These people in this video \u2013 they’re real people.”<\/p>\n
“The vast majority of these people who are undocumented are regular people with jobs and they’re just trying to have a better future”. <\/p>\n
“It’s so crazy how everything is so memefied and so ‘ha-ha-ha’,” she says, accusing the White House of using her song to sow “division”, despite the lyrics reflecting a connection between people and nature, according to Larsson.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Larsson condemned a video of President Donald Trump dancing at various events overlayed with her hit Lush Life. <\/p>\n
White House social media accounts have been forced to remove various songs from their feed following interventions from artists.<\/p>\n
Taylor Swift’s seasonal track August disappeared from a reel shared by the Trump administration in August, while one of Olivia Rodrigo’s songs vanished from a video after the singer condemned its use for what she called “hateful propaganda”. <\/p>\n
Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> and Ariana Grande<\/a> have also warned the Trump administration in separate incidents to not use their music in social media content after the White House posted videos featuring their songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swedish pop star Zara Larsson has condemned the White House for using one of her most recognisable songs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}