I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.
I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.
My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.
MAGA will be remembered as the most embarrassing political phenomenon ever to stain the history of America, just a gutter movement that elevated the worst, dumbest, most vile among us
I go to this mosque every Friday. There’s an older gentleman in his 70s who walks around handing everyone a piece of candy with the warmest smile on his face, followed by a quiet prayer he whispers for the person receiving it.
He doesn’t want anyone dead. I don’t want anyone dead. And nobody I’ve met there wants anyone dead.
Yet based on your tweets, I’d bet you’d rather see every person in that mosque erased for simply being Muslim.
Funny how the people constantly accusing others of hate are usually the ones consumed by it themselves.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.