\n\tThe Trump administration has drawn fire recently for its unauthorized use of music by A-listers including Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, Taylor Swift<\/a>, Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> and Kenny Loggins<\/a> and others in videos promoting its agenda. And while the use of recognizable hits by chart-toppers appears to be a feature, not a bug, of the White House\u2019s attempt to keep attention focused on the president\u2019s top priorities, on Wednesday (Dec. 3) the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a video promoting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruitment set to the tune of a song most music lovers are probably unfamiliar with.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n <\/p>\n \t<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n\tThe results, however, were the same: anger from the artist who said he was furious about what he deemed the wholly unauthorized, inappropriate use of his music in a government propaganda video.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m disgusted to see our music was used without our knowledge or consent to promote I.C.E.,\u201d wrote indie producer\/rapper Joey Valence<\/a> of the Philadelphia hip-hop duo Joey Valence and Brae on X. \u201cTo be clear this video does NOT represent my OR JVB\u2019s thoughts or beliefs in any form and we are actively working to have it taken down.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe DHS promo video<\/a> in question that dropped on Wednesday evening is cued to the group\u2019s 2023 single \u201cHooligang,\u201d and it opens with the track\u2019s spoken word intro, \u201cYo, you wanna see something cool?\u2026 Well, I\u2019m a do it anyway,\u201d over video of the sign outside the Buffalo, N.Y. ICE detention facility. It then cuts to a series of shots of snow-covered ICE military vehicles and groups of masked, long-gun-toting ICE agents in full combat gear aiming their rifles and tooling around in aimless circles on the running boards of the trucks in the recruitment clip that ends with the message \u201cJoin ICE.GOV.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe video\u2019s caption reads: \u201cThis winter, the forecast calls for ICE.\u201d The clip is the latest example of the Trump White House using popular music to advance its domestic agenda in meme-seeking clips that mix lighthearted captions with visuals intended to feel ominous or edgy.<\/p>\n \n\tAt press time a spokesperson for ICE\/DHS had not returned Billboard<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n \n\tEarlier this week, Carpenter lambasted the White House for posting a compilation of ICE officers chasing, tackling and handcuffing people on the streets set to her Short n\u2019 Sweet\u00a0<\/em>song \u201cJuno.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis video is evil and disgusting,\u201d Carpenter wrote on\u00a0X<\/a>. \u201cDo not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.\u201d In keeping with its edgelord-style responses to pushback from the peeved artists, Trump spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Newsweek<\/a><\/em>, \u201cHere\u2019s a Short n\u2019 Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: We won\u2019t apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country. Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCarpenter joins a long list of musicians who have expressed their anger and disgust with the administration for hijacking their songs without authorization to promote its agenda. Last month, Rodrigo condemned the White House for pairing a video encouraging self-deportations with her song \u201cAll-American Bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cdon\u2019t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda,\u201d\u00a0she wrote<\/a>. In addition, Loggins lashed out<\/a>\u00a0at POTUS for using his Top Gun<\/em> hit \u201cDanger Zone\u201d in an AI-generated video in which Trump appeared to spray fecal matter on \u201cNo Kings\u201d protestors. And\u00a0Swifties called out<\/a>\u00a0the White House for a TikTok<\/a> that used the lyrics to Swift\u2019s Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d in a bizarre promotional video mixing footage of military hardware with images of twice-impeached Trump\u2019s mugshot and pictures of his cabinet.<\/p>\n\n
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