{"id":93572,"date":"2025-08-19T05:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93572\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T05:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:22:07","slug":"sydney-sweeneys-americana-bombs-amid-american-eagle-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93572\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney&#8217;s &#8220;Americana&#8221; bombs amid American Eagle controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/sydney_sweeney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sydney Sweeney<\/a>\u2018s latest movie flopped on opening weekend, mere weeks after starring in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/07\/31\/sydney-sweeney-knows-exactly-what-shes-doing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">controversial ad campaign for American Eagle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericana,\u201d a modern western which also stars singer Halsey and Paul Walter Hauser, opened to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/weapons-box-office-nobody-2-highest-to-lowest-1236346020\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">estimated $500K box office take<\/a> at over 1100 theaters. That\u2019s well behind weeks-old releases like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/07\/03\/jonathan-bailey-is-jurassic-world-rebirths-apex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jurassic World: Rebirth<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/07\/13\/superman-is-super-woke-on-purpose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Superman<\/a>\u201d and the Tamil-language action movie \u201cCoolie.\u201d It\u2019s also far behind the rerelease of 2016\u2019s \u201cShin Godzilla,\u201d a kaiju movie that\u2019s mostly about the horrors of government bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this summer, the blond-haired, blue-eyed \u201cEuphoria\u201d starred in an ad campaign that critics accused of promoting eugenics. The ads for American Eagle\u2019s denim centered around the phrase \u201cSydney Sweeney has great jeans.\u201d American Eagle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/08\/02\/american-eagle-defends-great-jeans-campaign-after-backlash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defended the ads<\/a>, saying that \u201cgreat jeans look good on everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth over whether the mall jeans ad was borderline Nazi propaganda rose to such a level that President <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/donald_trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Donald Trump<\/a> weighed in. Shortly after Sweeney was revealed to be a registered Republican voter in the state of Florida, Trump commended her for having \u201cthe \u2018HOTTEST\u2019 ad out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo get \u2018em, Sydney!\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe tide has seriously turned \u2014 Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be. Thank you for your attention to this matter!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"red_box\">Read more<\/p>\n<p class=\"white_box\">about this topic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney\u2018s latest movie flopped on opening weekend, mere weeks after starring in a controversial ad campaign for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-93572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}