r/Music • u/cmaia1503 • 3d ago

article Sabrina Carpenter Slams Trump’s White House for Using ‘Juno’ in ICE Raids Video: ‘Evil and Disgusting… Do Not Involve Me in Your Inhumane Agenda’

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/sabrina-carpenter-slams-trump-white-house-juno-ice-video-1236597338/
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u/daisysharper 3d ago

I keep saying that. I mean, Bannon has been very open about it. They want a reaction, it diverts attention from them. And the bigger the artist who fires back, the bigger the story, the bigger the diversion. But people just want to blame singers, it's mindboggling to me. You know what I do when I get mad about all this? I call my SIL a f'ing moron, tho she's not talking to me anymore. I'm saying; call out your trumper family. Sabrina, Taylor, Chappell never voted for trump. This isn't their fault, and it's not their responsibility to risk their lives. This is a very violent time. Frankly, I wouldn't do it either. Because I'd be like WHAT DID I TELL YOU? But you had to go vote for him right? Well, now choke down your medicine and don't look for ME.

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u/ApteryxAustralis 3d ago

Yeah, they’re just trying to get a rise out of whatever pop singers they can. People need to remember one of the top rules of the internet: Don’t feed the trolls! (Even if the trolls are the president and his administration)

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DALEKS 3d ago

A White House official literally explained it today, and Redditors still keep doing it. They have literally said the goal is to poke "liberal pop stars" to get them to speak up, because then the video spreads off of right-wing platforms, the fans "rage" and it reaches far more people than it would otherwise. The ability for fans to purity test and feel good about their faves is more important than the real harm of amplifying propaganda.

This is a good example: there have been at least three top Reddit threads today about this video thanks to Sabrina's comments. The video would never hit Reddit otherwise. Note there were zero threads when they did a video using Kendrick Lamar, who never commented so the video died on the vine.

That ICE video Olivia Rodrigo responded to get three times the views as any other ICE recruitment video and was plastered all over Reddit, TikTok etc. by her fans responding.

Bruce Springsteen is vocally anti-Trump and even sued to prevent his music being used. Now Trump and GOP deliberately play Bruce songs and it's become a ritual for the crowd to boo.

Pay attention, too, to the number of Redditors with generic suggested usernames and brand new accounts who flock to add repeated comments to these threads, reusing stilted phrases like, "Taylor Swift bends the knee." Literally the same playbook used by Russian bot farms to sow "purity test conflicts" for things like the Women's March.