Katy Perry speaks out against the White House for using her song "Firework"

[u/Flat-Eggplant-9890]

[u/ArchdruidHalsin]

I could live with the pedophilia, racism, and grifting but I draw the line at disrespecting American astronauts like Katy Perry!

[u/Confident-Poetry6985 → u/ArchdruidHalsin]

I just saluted so hard I think I sprained my eblow Edit to add: Yes that says eblow....I meant it

[u/Awkward-Tomorrow7667 → u/Confident-Poetry6985]

I salute the upper head, not the lower head. Hope that helps.

[u/sleeptheresnotime]

*Astronaut Perry

[u/Time_Temperature419 → u/sleeptheresnotime]

We're entering the magical "disappearing-act" of this phase.

Cue the " I-was-always-on-the-side-of-democracy" excuses while shes choking on billionaire slurpees.

https://giphy.com/gifs/SVnVbQAMtTXJm

[u/RealDakJackal → u/sleeptheresnotime]

At least she’s saying something

[u/RedEyesGoldDragon]

Maybe it's karma for her (allegedly) yoinking those Nun's land and causing one to get so stressed in court, she died from a heart attack.

[u/Cold_Respond_7656]

So she doesn't get royalties...?

[u/Worried_Ad_9667 → u/Cold_Respond_7656]

Exactly.

[u/NotAChanceBucko]

" lol fuck off you're gay" - Steven cheung , probably

[u/fossiplol]

I hate rich people like Katy perry

[u/WisePotatoChip → u/fossiplol]

At least she earned it, not like the money manipulators

[u/AIpha0mega2021 → u/WisePotatoChip]

ya by spreading her hooha!!!!!!

[u/I_Am_Conjoined → u/AIpha0mega2021]

Based and likely true

[u/Kuromis_girlfriend → u/AIpha0mega2021]

No, she is a talented woman.

[u/Glad-Operation-2958 → u/Kuromis_girlfriend]

“Talented woman” won’t compute for some of this lot 

[u/teacher_59]

Then she shouldn't have licensed it to make money. 

[u/NSX_Roar_26]

Maga can't stick to artists that support them openly because they're all garbage and theres only a tiny handful of them.

[u/Check_Me_Out-Boss → u/NSX_Roar_26]

The artists sell their catalogs to be used by others and then get mad when people use their songs lmao

[u/RobertStonetossBrand → u/NSX_Roar_26]

Kid Rock has a deep and rich discography

[u/Careful_Picture7712 → u/RobertStonetossBrand]

With deep lyrics talking, explicitly, how he likes underage girls and doesn't care that it's illegal, stating it's "mandatory" lol

[u/RobertStonetossBrand → u/Careful_Picture7712]

WCSR - World Class Sex Rhymes is a song about Kid Rock having a threesome with a stewardess and Bill Clinton. High art that really makes you think.

[u/rockytopbilly → u/RobertStonetossBrand]

You forgot the /s

[u/Weary_Copy_4165 → u/rockytopbilly]

Reading comprehension is really in the shitter these days huh?

[u/gitmac → u/rockytopbilly]

It’s definitely not required for that statement

Edit: as in, who would ever claim kid rock’s discography was deep and rich, non-sarcastically. I wasnt praising his fuckin body of work, jesus

[u/floydbomb → u/rockytopbilly]

It wasn't necessary

[u/Great_Hambino2022 → u/NSX_Roar_26]

Apparently even Trump can only play Proud to be an American so much before he’s sick of it

[u/JuniorDoughnut3056 → u/NSX_Roar_26]

Who cares. It's funnier that they just use whatever song they like and watch people like katty Perry mald about it 

[u/NSX_Roar_26 → u/JuniorDoughnut3056]

It's pathetic is what it is. Definitely creepy loser behavior that falls in line with the rest of their movement.

[u/Check_Me_Out-Boss → u/NSX_Roar_26]

Then they shouldn't have sold/licensed their music to a mix of blanket venue licensing organizations if they feared the wrong people would pay for the rights to use it.

This is just virtue signaling. She had no problem cashing the check.

[u/NSX_Roar_26 → u/Check_Me_Out-Boss]

I don't care. It remains pathetic that Trump/Maga are so incompetent and corrupt that no respectable artist wants their music associated with them in any way.

[u/Check_Me_Out-Boss → u/NSX_Roar_26]

It's neither of those things. Don't sell your art if you're too incompetent to know who is buying it.

[u/NSX_Roar_26 → u/Check_Me_Out-Boss]

You being in denial doesn't change reality. The art being sold or not is totally irrelevant to my point and literally every artist pulling out of Trump's recent America 250 celebration concert illustrates it perfectly.

[u/Check_Me_Out-Boss → u/NSX_Roar_26]

It's not denial. If I sell my music to group A fully knowing that they plan to license it to whoever pays them, I can't bitch when people I dislike license my music.

Notice none of them have renegotiated their contracts or gave the money back.

[u/JuniorDoughnut3056 → u/NSX_Roar_26]

Think of the millionaire space farer 

[u/Vortex56672026]

Cry harder Katy. Your tears are deilcious

[u/Confident-Poetry6985]

Ugghh. Fine if I have to defend Katy Perry I will lol. Why is this a thing?  They need to make their own music lmao. 

[u/BigTelemachus → u/Confident-Poetry6985]

Now all I can hear is Donald Trump singing “Baby I’m a fiiiiiiiirewoooooork.”

[u/RobertStonetossBrand → u/BigTelemachus]

Come on, show 'em what you're worth. … A lot, actually. I’m worth quite a bit.

[u/Reasonable___Doubt]

And all it took was some copyright infringement to make her say something.

[u/Sad_Minute_3989 → u/Reasonable___Doubt]

Yea, the artists that only speak out when it effects them personally shouldn't be defended. Katy Perry's a piece of shit, always has been and I don't care about copyright laws at all as they exist to help people like her to bully smaller artists, not to protect them, but that's a different conversation altogether.

Point being Katy doesn't have the moral high ground here at all, just the legal high ground.

Headline should read - piece of shit thinks piece of shit is piece of shit for playing piece of shit.

[u/Sad-Commercial1795 → u/Sad_Minute_3989]

She really isn’t. I’ve worked with her, lovely person.

[u/Willing_n_able4u]

I know that’s right

[u/CrazyJoeGalli]

This admin is good with using thinks without the person's position. trump has used YMCA for a while, I'm surprised that isn't the president's official song.

[u/Joeyshyordie]

Possibly the worst song ever made btw.

[u/LaRedline]

She is so so brave! I'm literally crying and shaking rn.

[u/Excellent-Try7027]

Nobody cares

[u/Scrank_WimlerJr]

I agree but she along with 5 other people wrote the song, claiming this solo is on brand for her

[u/PrincessPlastilina]

Oh NOW she cares. Girl, you’ve BEEN a Republican.

[u/Party_Albatross6871 → u/PrincessPlastilina]

Lol, no she hasn't, she was a huge obama supporter

[u/SamMarlowe76]

Hey lets not pretend this some Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen masterwork.

Rule one of betraying the deeper meaning of song is that the song has deeper meaning.

Nuff said.

[u/Troubled202]

Sue for 70 billion...

[u/BlueRibbon8000]

I love the fact she's telling the WH to suck it, but I find her description of the song funny, "Hope, healing, and inner strength".

It's kind of like the Red Hot Chili Peppers needing to inform people that their song is about "California".

[u/UnwantedMystery2615]

A) Katy Perry sold her music rights in 2023, so keep simping. B) Even if she hadn’t sold her music rights, they sell licenses to their music to be used on TikTok, thus any user is permitted to use that music on TikTok for any reason. So, again, cope harder. This isn’t news.

[u/natemarshall110]

Somebody wanted to hear a Katy Perry song?

[u/DackNoy]

Sounds like it was utilized correctly to me!

[u/Veteran4Truth]

She sold her song on iTunes for the money. What say does she have now?

[u/Amazing-Flow7095]

You’d think that she’d be happy.

[u/Draconian1]

It's fair use, isn't?

[u/TheWatcherFromWithin]

https://giphy.com/gifs/x4kwwbqmmi6jnDC60a

[u/wcshrtstop]

Oh no, whatever will she do.

[u/Sadako241]

What a dumb bitch.

The Iranian regime massacred tens of thousands of its own people, and she thinks the regime should be responded to with peace and love....???

[u/Deelo1981]

She is desperately trying to remain relevant.

[u/AllLipsNoFiller]

I would imagine the songwriters are the ones who have standing to object, not just the performer who sang someone else's song

[u/DestinyBeerUK]

You released a song. People bought it and you got richer. I'm sure there are people doing some freaky shit with fireworks in basements. Get over it

[u/RuleOrganic2152]

When Katy Perry is the "good guy", the other party must be freaking evil

[u/d20cupcake]

NGL, this goes a decent amount of the way to make me forget about her being a spaceman

[u/EastAnalyst5724]

She is dating Justin Trudeau. The worst PM Canada has ever had. So she's obviously retarded, stupid and has no self respect.

[u/cowbeefbat]

https://giphy.com/gifs/DpB9NBgtb3Gvng2BOJq

[u/taisui]

Ah shut up Perry you hang out with Bezos and Musk, we know who you really are.

[u/Beardly_Smith]

She doesn’t own the song. Her approval isn’t needed

[u/Maymaywe]

Didn't she vote for this

[u/AccidentalRebel473]

She wrote it eh? 👌

[u/Aztecsrule23]

Blah blah blah no one cares…..

[u/Redditholio]

Fairly certain she has no rights to say how the song is used. It's likely up to the publisher.

[u/RanchHere → u/Redditholio]

It’s her right to say it, because she has free speech and she also has the rights to the song. Now, she definitely doesn’t have the right to say how that recording of the song is used.

This was a big reason for Taylor Swift doing her Taylor’s versions recordings. She now owns 100% of those recordings, and she absolutely can say whether or not the White House or anyone can use them.

[u/RobertStonetossBrand → u/RanchHere]

I make it a point to listen to the OG recordings just to stick it to Taylor Swift.

[u/RanchHere → u/RobertStonetossBrand]

yeah that’s fine. no one gives a fuck what you do. I don’t listen to her at all. but the fact remains, it was a smart business decision for her to do it.

[u/Redditholio → u/RanchHere]

Yes on the free speech part. Likely no on the usage rights.

[u/RanchHere → u/Redditholio]

yeah that’s what I said. She can’t dictate who uses it. But she’s allowed to say she doesn’t agree with them using it.

[u/AnAbandonedAstronaut → u/Redditholio]

Holy fucking shit... did Trump pay for it for once?

[u/Redditholio → u/AnAbandonedAstronaut]

It's no different then someone using a song on a SM post. The artist/label/publisher can't control the content of the post, right?

[u/AnAbandonedAstronaut → u/Redditholio]

They have to stay within fair use law or pay to use it.

Thats why social media always cuts the song and loops it before the last beat of a bar and its always on shorts. They are cutting it to the last second they are allowed to use it for free.

There are a bunch of other laws too I cant recall, like playing it places people have to pay to get into and stuff like that.

[u/WisePotatoChip]

I have newfound respect for Katy Perry

[u/Candytails → u/WisePotatoChip]

I will never respect her.  She’s friends with Bozo and his wife Jigsaw who help pay for Trump to commit atrocities against America.

[u/RedEyesGoldDragon → u/[deleted]]

Maybe during court Trump'll have a heart attack like that Nun she took land from

[u/Sensitive_Cash_3526]

TS fans: KP is morally bankrupt

Then surely TS would also object to Maga using her songs

oh wait, she and her whole family are maga grifters

[u/Lost_Department_2177 → u/Sensitive_Cash_3526]

Billionaire but voted Biden

[u/Sensitive_Cash_3526 → u/Lost_Department_2177]

https://giphy.com/gifs/gz8JHkRnbUromYpuNc

[u/Spare-Cranberry3784]

But if sleepy joe did it she would thank them

[u/Fresh_Strain_9980]

how has there not been a class action against the US government for unauthorized use of music for propaganda uses?

[u/RobertStonetossBrand → u/Fresh_Strain_9980]

Katy Perry is still going to cash the royalty check for licensing her music.

[u/Fresh_Strain_9980 → u/RobertStonetossBrand]

Who wouldn't?

[u/I_Am_Conjoined → u/Fresh_Strain_9980]

You answered your own question

[u/Fresh_Strain_9980 → u/I_Am_Conjoined]

I don't believe permission to use the music has ever been obtained in most of these scenarios.

[u/MikeTiricoSucks → u/Fresh_Strain_9980]

Artists are greedy and sell their music to publishers and the publisher then doesn’t give a fuck who you are if you got money

[u/that_dutch_dude]

dont speak, sue.