New Delhi, July 25 -- Katy Perry has criticised the White House for using her 2010 hit 'Firework' as the soundtrack to a TikTok video depicting military strikes, saying she neither approved nor condoned the use.

The singer addressed the controversy in a post on X after the official White House TikTok account shared a video featuring footage of military strikes. The video reportedly timed the song's lyrics - "boom, boom, boom" - to images of bomb explosions and carried the caption "Iran has been warned".

Perry responded by directly condemning the use of her music, making clear that the video did not represent the meaning she intended for the song or the values associated with it.

In her post on X, she wrote, "I am deeply appalled and an...