White House Starts Battle With Pop Star After Music Meltdown

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The White House has made it personal with a pop superstar who complained that the administration used her music to soundtrack a war video without her permission.

Katy Perry, 41, https://x.com/katyperry/status/2081032309508047136" rel="" target="_self" title="https://x.com/katyperry/status/2081032309508047136">posted on Saturday that she was “deeply appalled and angry” that her 2010 hit “Firework” had been used for a White House montage of military strike clips titled “Iran has been warned.”

The strikes were synced to Perry’s “Boom boom boom” lyrics.

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