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Pharrell Williams knocks celebrities who endorse politicians: ‘Nobody asked you’

Editorial Board Published September 19, 2024
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By Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Occasions

This week, Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, marked Nationwide Voter Registration Day within the U.S. with a public service announcement declaring that “every voice matters” within the upcoming presidential election.

Pharrell Williams is perhaps happier if that they had simply stored their mouths shut.

In an interview revealed the day after the Sept. 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, the multi-hyphenate musician informed the Hollywood Reporter he was typically “annoyed” by celeb political endorsements.

“There are celebrities that I respect that have an opinion, but not all of them,” he stated. “I’m one of them people [who says], ‘What the heck? Shut up. Nobody asked you.’”

Williams’ feedback coincided with per week bookended by a pair of noteworthy Tuesdays: the previous, the primary presidential debate, and the latter, Nationwide Voter Registration Day.

Throughout that point, large music trade names, together with Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish voiced their help for the Democrats’ Harris-Walz ticket and urged their followers — Swift subtly, Eilish not a lot — to observe swimsuit.

“The choice is clear,” Eilish wrote Tuesday on Instagram.

The general public received’t see that form of messaging from Williams, who stated he “doesn’t really do politics.” (He did concede, although, that he’d by no means vote “far right.”)

“I would rather stay out of the way,” he stated, calling himself extra of a “humanitarian” than an “activist.”

“I’m going to vote how I’m going to vote. I care about my people and I care about the country, but I feel there’s a lot of work that needs to be done, and I’m really about the action,” he added.

Williams is the founding father of two equity-based nonprofit organizations — Yellow offers instructional know-how to marginalized youth whereas Black Ambition funds and gives mentorship to Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs with the mission to shut the wealth hole.

“I’m not an activist, but I believe in action,” Williams stated.

Regardless of his feedback, the “Get Lucky” singer overtly supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton throughout the 2016 presidential marketing campaign and appeared at one in all her rallies alongside Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“Politics is not my field of expertise,” he stated on the time. “But I’m a human. I’m a human being with a family, a human being that shares this Earth with other human beings. This election is just too important. I couldn’t sit on the sidelines and just be quiet.”

Two years later, in 2018, Williams despatched then-President Trump a cease-and-desist letter for taking part in his music “Happy” at a political occasion hours after a mass capturing at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Within the letter, Williams’ lawyer stated there was “nothing ‘happy’ about the tragedy inflicted upon our country on Saturday and no permission was granted for your use of this song for this purpose.”

However whether or not Williams publicly endorses a candidate or not, manufacturing has wrapped on his Lego-animated biopic “Piece by Piece,” he informed the Hollywood Reporter, and the film is slated for an Oct. 11 launch.

“When it was time to tell my story,” Williams informed The Occasions final week, he selected the Lego format as a result of he “wanted to tell it in a way that, like, the kids could see it as well.”

©2024 Los Angeles Occasions. Go to latimes.com. Distributed by Tribune Content material Company, LLC.

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