Zara Larsson criticises White House for using her song in deportation video

Swedish pop star Zara Larsson has condemned the White House for using one of her most recognisable songs in a social media reel.

Key points

• Earlier this year, Larsson condemned a video of President Donald Trump dancing at various events overlayed with her hit Lush Life.
• In a three-minute reaction video posted on social media, Larsson described the clip as "dehumanising", joining a growing list of singers, including Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande.
• The clip applied Larsson's Midnight Sun in a video appearing to show immigration enforcement raids.
• In the reaction video that has already clocked up more than 4.2 million views on TikTok, she tells her followers the White House video is "so dehumanising".
• The video is captioned "never ending deportations", riffing on Larsson's lyrics "never-ending midnight sun".

Meanwhile, the clip applied Larsson's Midnight Sun in a video appearing to show immigration enforcement raids. The song has since been removed from the post, but the video is still visible on the White House's TikTok feed.

For context, the video is captioned "never ending deportations", riffing on Larsson's lyrics "never-ending midnight sun".

In a three-minute reaction video posted on social media, Larsson described the clip as "dehumanising", joining a growing list of singers, including Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande. This person have informed the Trump administration to not apply their music. The BBC has contacted the White House for comment.

As well as other US law enforcement personnel, handcuffing men and putting them into vehicles, the reel splices together multiple videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Larsson reposted part of the original clip. It then cuts to a selfie video of her using her fingers to hold an 'L' shape against her forehead.

In the reaction video that has already clocked up more than 4.2 million views on TikTok, she tells her followers the White House video is "so dehumanising". Larsson continues: "These people in this video – they're real people."

"The vast majority of these people who are undocumented are regular people with jobs and they're just trying to have a better future".

"It's so crazy how everything is so memefied and so 'ha-ha-ha', " she notes, accusing the White House of using her song to sow "division", despite the lyrics reflecting a connection between residents and nature, according to Larsson.

White House social media accounts have been forced to remove various songs from their feed after interventions from artists.

While one of Olivia Rodrigo's songs vanished from a video after the singer condemned its employ for what she called "hateful propaganda", taylor Swift's seasonal track August disappeared from a reel shared by the Trump administration in August.

Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande have additionally cautioned the Trump administration in separate incidents to not employ their music in social media content after the White House posted videos featuring their songs.

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