After addressing the unauthorized use of her music, Sabrina Carpenter received a trolling response from the White House.
Having applied her music in a montage of clips showing raids by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE,) The White House told Entertainment Weekly “Here’s a Short n’ Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: we won’t apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country” adding “Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?,” as a reference from lyrics of Carpenter’s hit song ‘Manchild.’
On Tuesday (12.02,), the superstar singer/songwriter took the White House’s official X account to task after they layered Carpenter’s lyric over people being handcuffed, tackled, and more by ICE agents. “Have you ever tried this one?” sings Sabrina on repeat as people in the video are chased down and slammed to the ground.
The two-time Grammy award winner responded to the video with “This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
Not the first time a mega-musician has pushed back against the Trump administration for co-opting hit songs for their social media posts, Pharrell, Adele, Guns N’ Roses, Aerosmith, Neil Young, Rihanna, Ozzy Osbourne, Nickelback, Linkin Park, the Rolling Stones, Village People, Panic! at the Disco, Queen, REM, and the estates and families of Tom Petty, Laura Branigan, Prince and George Harrison have all spoken out against Trump for using their repertoire.
Most recently, the White House featured the music of Taylor Swift in a patriotic TikTok video celebrating Trump. Swift has yet to comment.
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Author: Al Dente
Photo: Matt H. Wade