“I feel deeply shocked and outraged to see that they used firework on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as background music for a video of military attacks. “I did not authorize this, they did not consult me and I do not approve of it at all,” the artist wrote in X.
The interpreter condemned the eight-second video published on Thursday, July 23, by the White House on TikTok that shows US bombings in Iran while playing “Boom, boom, boom, even brighter than the Moon”, verse of her 2010 single.
“Iran received warnings,” the White House wrote in the publication, which as of Saturday morning, July 25, still had Katy Perry’s music, accompanied by a fireworks emoticon.
The artist rejected this use of her music, arguing that she wrote “this song to be an anthem of hope, healing and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments.”
“Seeing that a message of self-esteem and improvement is instrumentalized as a soundtrack for destruction and violence is an absolute violation of everything that my song represents. My music is to unite people, not to celebrate war,” he said.
Perry’s complaint joins that of other artists who have criticized President Donald Trump or his political campaign team for using their music without authorization, such as ABBA, Beyoncé, Céline Dion or Sabrina Carpenter, who considered “evil and unpleasant” that her song Juno was used for a video about immigration raids.
The video with the song firework It showed one of the attacks by the United States Army in the midst of the escalation of the war with Iran after Trump terminated the memorandum of understanding that he signed last June for a ceasefire.