A White House TikTok video, celebrating ICE-led deportations went silent on Friday after singer Zara Larsson tore into the administration for using her song \u201cMidnight Sun\u201d in the post.<\/p>\n
The Swedish artist took to TikTok, flashed an \u201cL\u201d sign with her thumb and index finger and called the White House \u201closers\u201d for borrowing a tune that celebrates the joy of Scandinavian nature <\/a>to soundtrack a celebration of mass deportations.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just so f—ing uncool,\u201d she told 12.5 million TikTok followers <\/a>on Thursday. \u201cYou guys are such f—ing losers.\u201d <\/p>\n By Friday morning, that video had gone silent <\/a>displaying the message: \u201cThis sound is unavailable.\u201d <\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if TikTok had acted to protect Larsson\u2019s work or whether the White House muted the video itself. Representatives for the platform and administration could not be immediately reached for comment on Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you want to talk about politics and immigration politics, fine,\u201d Larsson said. \u201cBut that\u2019s really not what this is. This video is so dehumanizing.\u201d <\/p>\n The White House video appeared to show agents arresting men, implying that they were undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n Larsson said she was struck that many of the detained appeared to be wearing neon-colored protective work clothes, the kind common on construction sites or on the highway.<\/p>\n \u201cThese people in this video, they\u2019re real people. There\u2019s a f—ing guy in there with construction wear,\u201d Larsson said. \u201cHe\u2019s working and a vast majority of these people who are undocumented are regular people with jobs. They\u2019re just trying to have a better future. I don\u2019t understand. I don\u2019t understand why you would do this video. \u201d<\/p>\n The 28-year-old Stockholm native said she\u2019s keenly aware of the opportunities afforded to her growing up in Sweden.<\/p>\n \u201cI consider myself so lucky with the life that I\u2019ve been dealt. The fact that I\u2019m born in Sweden, I have healthcare, I\u2019ve had an education, I\u2019ve had all these opportunities just laid out in front of me,\u201d the artist said.<\/p>\n \u201cI can travel, I get to do all of these amazing things-that\u2019s luck. That\u2019s luck. So much of that is luck, and there, there\u2019s people out there who are who are not that lucky, and they want to have a better life for their families or for themselves and their children.\u201d <\/p>\n Larrson has rarely shied away from using her platform to express any number of views. <\/p>\n She\u2019s been, for years,<\/a> highly critical of Chris Brown and his past incidents of domestic violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are so many artists I have blocked on Spotify, and all of them are, like, abusers,\u201d Larsson told Cosmopolitan earlier this year<\/a>. \u201cYou certainly wouldn\u2019t find, like, a Chris Brown song.\u201d<\/p>\n Also this year, Larsson said she lost a $3 million brand deal <\/a>over a dark joke she made to support a fan who revealed she\u2019d gotten an abortion after one of the singer-songwriter\u2019s shows.<\/p>\n