{"id":440773,"date":"2025-12-11T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440773\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:32:14","slug":"sza-slams-rage-baiting-ice-ad-featuring-her-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440773\/","title":{"rendered":"SZA Slams &#8216;Rage Baiting&#8217; ICE Ad Featuring Her Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        SZA&#8217;s viral &#8220;cuffing season&#8221; anthem just got pulled into an immigration fight she wants no part of. The singer denounced the White House after it used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B9Z5YtWOJBM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Big Boys&#8221;<\/a>\u2014the spoof track she performed in a 2022 Saturday Night Live sketch\u2014in a social media post praising Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The video, shared earlier this week, showed ICE agents arresting immigrants and was captioned, &#8220;We heard it&#8217;s cuffing szn. Bad news for criminal illegal aliens. Great news for America,&#8221; per <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/sza-blasts-white-house-for-using-her-snl-song-pro-ice-post-1236605926\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sza\/status\/1998864507855319376\">post on X<\/a>, SZA accused the administration of &#8220;rage baiting artists for free promo,&#8221; calling the tactic &#8220;PEAK DARK &#8230; inhumanity + shock and aw tactics&#8221; and summing it up as &#8220;Evil n Boring.&#8221; Her manager, Punch, also weighed in, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iamstillpunch\/status\/1998492647472955683\">writing<\/a> that trying to provoke artists &#8220;to help spread propaganda and political agendas is nasty business. Knock it off.&#8221; The White House isn&#8217;t backing down. In a statement, a spokeswoman thanked SZA &#8220;for drawing even more attention to the tremendous work America&#8217;s ICE officers are doing by arresting dangerous criminal illegal aliens from American communities.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        SZA&#8217;s complaint follows similar objections from other pop stars. Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/379700\/sabrina-carpenter-blasts-white-house-over-song-in-ice-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sabrina Carpenter condemned<\/a> the Trump administration for using her hit &#8220;Juno&#8221; over a montage of ICE raids, calling the clip &#8220;evil and disgusting&#8221; and telling officials not to &#8220;ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.&#8221; After deleting that post, the White House later shared another video featuring a Carpenter SNL commercial, this time edited so the audio seemed to label cast member Marcello Hernandez as &#8220;illegal&#8221; instead of &#8220;hot.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; SZA&#8217;s viral &#8220;cuffing season&#8221; anthem just got pulled into an immigration fight she wants no part of.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":440774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,5410,6501,67673,15164,137824,18241,1933,19514,47840,67,132,68,5223],"class_list":{"0":"post-440773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ice","11":"tag-immigrants","12":"tag-propaganda","13":"tag-singer","14":"tag-singer-songwriter","15":"tag-singers","16":"tag-snl","17":"tag-song","18":"tag-sza","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115702605060216410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}