{"id":53651,"date":"2025-12-11T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/sza-slams-white-house-for-using-her-snl-song-in-ice-post\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:33:30","slug":"sza-slams-white-house-for-using-her-snl-song-in-ice-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/sza-slams-white-house-for-using-her-snl-song-in-ice-post\/","title":{"rendered":"SZA Slams White House for Using Her &#8216;SNL&#8217; Song in ICE Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sza\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sza\" data-tag=\"sza\">SZA<\/a> has become the latest musician to blast the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/white-house\/\" id=\"auto-tag_white-house\" data-tag=\"white-house\">White House<\/a> for their use of her music in a pro-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ice\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ice\" data-tag=\"ice\">ICE<\/a> ad, calling their post \u201cevil and boring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe White House posted <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1998222925866889283?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">a video <\/a>on X using SZA\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B9Z5YtWOJBM&amp;t=32s\" target=\"_blank\">Big Boys<\/a>,\u201d her song from an <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\">SNL<\/a> <\/em>sketch that aired in Dec. 2022 (SZA was the musical guest, while Keke Palmer served as host). While \u201cBig Boys\u201d is about how larger men can provide warmth in the winter, the White House took the line \u201cIt\u2019s cuffing season\u201d for immigration enforcement. \u201cWE HEARD IT\u2019S CUFFING SZN,\u201d the White House\u2019s ad reads, across footage of arrests. \u201cBad news for criminal illegal aliens. Great news for America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SZA\u2019s former manager, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sza-manager-tde-punch-split-1235218087\/\">Terrence \u201cPunch\u201d Henderson<\/a>, first addressed the post on X, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iamstillpunch\/status\/1998492647472955683?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">writing<\/a>, \u201cTrying to provoke artist to respond in order to help spread propaganda and political agendas is nasty business. Knock it off.\u201d SZA then made her own comments: \u201cWhite House rage baiting artists for free promo is PEAK DARK ..inhumanity +shock and aw tactics ..Evil n Boring.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSZA follows several musicians who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/all-the-artists-who-dont-want-donald-trump-using-their-music-1235080043\/\">spoken out <\/a>about the Donald Trump administration\u2019s use of their music, particularly with ICE propaganda. Just last week, Sabrina Carpenter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sabrina-carpenter-slams-white-house-juno-ice-raid-video-1235475843\/\">slammed <\/a>the White House\u2019s use of \u201cJuno\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/white-house-sabrina-carpenter-juno-ice-arrests-video-1235475656\/\">social media video<\/a>\u00a0that featured ICE agents making arrests. \u201cThis video is evil and disgusting,\u201d she said. \u201cDo not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.\u201d <\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDespite Carpenter\u2019s response, the White House followed that up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/white-house-sabrina-carpenter-snl-ice-video-1235479504\/\">another video<\/a> using her material. Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement to\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, \u201cHere\u2019s a Short n\u2019 Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: We won\u2019t apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country. Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLast month, Olivia Rodrigo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/olivia-rodrigo-slams-ice-using-song-hateful-propaganda-1235462106\/\">called out Trump <\/a>and the Department of Homeland Security for using \u201cAll-American Bitch\u201d in an ICE deportation video. \u201cDon\u2019t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda,\u201d she said in a since-deleted post. In response to\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment, a DHS spokesperson said, \u201cAmerica is grateful all the time for our federal law enforcement officers who keep us safe. We suggest Ms. Rodrigo thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sza-blasts-white-house-snl-song-ad-1235482423\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SZA has become the latest musician to blast the White House for their use of her music in a pro-ICE ad, calling their post&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":53652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}