Pharrell Williams knocks celebrities who endorse politicians: 'Nobody asked you'

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

Pharrell Williams might be happier if they had just kept their mouths shut. In an interview published the day after the between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump, the multi-hyphenate musician told the he was often “annoyed” by celebrity political endorsements. “There are celebrities that I respect that have an opinion, but not all of them,” he said.



“I’m one of them people [who says], 'What the heck? Shut up. Nobody asked you.'” Williams’ comments coincided with a week bookended by a pair of noteworthy Tuesdays: the former, the first presidential debate, and the latter, National Voter Registration Day.

During that time, big music industry names, including and Billie Eilish voiced their support for the Democrats' Harris-Walz ticket and urged their fans — Swift subtly, Eilish not so much — to follow suit. “The choice is clear,” Eilish wrote Tuesday on . The public won’t see that kind of messaging from Williams, who said he “doesn’t really do politics.

” (He did concede, though, that he'd never vote “far right.”) “I would rather stay out of the way,” he said, calling himself more 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 founder of two equity-based nonprofit organizations — provides educational technology to marginalized youth while funds and offers mentorship to Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs with the mission to close the wealth gap. “I’m not an activist, but I believe in action,” Williams said.

Despite his comments, the “Get Lucky” singer Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign and alongside Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Politics is not my field of expertise,” he said at 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 sent then-President Trump for playing his song “Happy” at a political event hours after a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. In the letter, Williams’ lawyer said 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.

” But whether Williams publicly endorses a candidate or not, production has wrapped on his Lego-animated biopic he told the Hollywood Reporter, and the movie is slated for an Oct. 11 release. “When it was time to tell my story,” Williams told last week, he chose the Lego format because he “wanted to tell it in a way that, like, the kids could see it as well.

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