All posts tagged "Katy Perry"

A pop star is furious her song appeared in a White House video about military strikes in Iran.

Katy Perry took to X Saturday to condemn the Trump administration for using her 2010 hit "Firework" in a White House video posted on TikTok earlier this week.

"I am deeply appalled and angry to see 'Firework' used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes," Perry wrote. "I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it."...

Pop star Katy Perry turned down an invite to perform at President Donald Trump's America250 celebrations in Brussels — and his MAGA ally had a public meltdown over the snub, The Daily Beast reported on Monday.

Ambassador Bill White lashed out at Perry after she declined to appear at the MAGA event at Cinquantenaire Park in Belgium, which featured performances from Zac Brown Band and Alexis Wilkins — FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend — at the invite-only celebration. The singer was already scheduled to headline Belgium’s Werchter Boutique festival that weekend, which ended up getting canceled due to bad weather.

"So we were gonna have Katy Perry. Who cares?" White told the crowd. "Karma is a b----. You know the joke? She was gonna perform last night. She got rained out."...

Singer Katy Perry denied allegations that she had sexually assaulted actress Ruby Rose, according to reports on Monday.

The "Orange is the New Black" actor accused the pop singer of sexually assaulting her at a nightclub in Melbourne, Australia, while Rose was in her early 20s, TMZ reported. She made the graphic comment in a post on Threads on Sunday.

Perry's representative released a statement in response to the allegation: ...

Recently news broke of an 11-year-old who was raped in England, and the most shocking part of the story was that the 21-year-old perpetrator was sentenced to absolutely no prison time. The age of consent is 16 in England, meaning that there was no way the act was legal. So how could something so egregious not result in deserved punishment?

It was 50 years ago next week that Sgt. Pepper taught the world to twerk.