Pop star Ariana Grande is calling out the White House, and she did not mince words.
The singer told the Trump administration to stop using her music after her 2024 single "Bye" showed up in an official White House TikTok video promoting Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, arrests.
"Please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense," Grande wrote in a comment on the post.
What happened
According to reports from BBC News, Variety, The Guardian and People Magazine that went viral on Instagram on June 11-12, the White House posted a TikTok earlier this week showing ICE officers handcuffing a person and escorting them to a vehicle, set to Grande's "Bye" from her album "eternal sunshine"
Grande replied directly in the comments. First with "FCK ICE", then with the full statement asking them never to use her music again for what she called barbaric and inhumane content
A source close to the singer told outlets her team moved to have the audio pulled. The White House later muted the song and removed Grande's comment from the TikTok, according to the BBC report
White House response
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson pushed back. In the BBC's package, she redirected the moral charge toward "criminal illegal aliens"
The administration has not issued a formal copyright statement. A commenter on the Variety post summed up what a lot of fans were asking: "Don't they have to clear the use of it? And pay a license fee?"
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