Tori Brazier
Published March 3, 2026 7:14pm
Updated March 3, 2026 7:14pm
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Pop star Kesha has been forced to cancel the kick-off of the European leg of her tour (Picture: Getty)
Kesha has said she is ‘devastated’ to be forced to cancel a concert the day before she was due to perform.
The news came just hours after she had blasted US President Donald Trump’s ‘inhumane’ White House for using her music in a TikTok that shows jets dropping a bomb, accusing the administration of ‘making light of war’.
Your Love is My Drug hitmaker Kesha, 39, took to Instagram to apologise to fans after her and her crew’s intended flights were cancelled, with no time to spare.
‘To my Berlin animals,’ she wrote in a statement shared on her Strories. ‘Me and my crews flights have been cancelled from Australia to Europe [sic].’
‘I sat at the airport praying. There is just no way we will make it there in time. I am devastated,’ she added.
However, the 39-year-old vowed to ‘make it up to you all when I can get back there’, signing off with: ‘I love you all so much and please stay safe.’
The 39-year-old was due to perform in Berlin tomorrow night but her flights were cancelled (Picture: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Her update, which she said she was ‘devastated’ about, came after a war of words with Donald Trump’s White House (Picture: @kesha/Instagram)
She was due to kick off the European leg of her Tits Out Tour with a sold-out show in Berlin on Wednesday March 4, before shows in Paris on March 6, Amsterdam on March 7 and Antwerp on March 9.
A fan account for the music star on X posted a photo of a plane wing, tweeting: ‘I was right here when Kesha cancelled her show, it’s gonna be the saddest 3 hours to fly.
‘I know it’s not her fault but waited so long for this moment and I already fly back in two days so probably won’t make it to the new day.’
‘I’m also already in Berlin and just saw her story this morning. I’m f**king pissed,’ another fan responded.
While others tried to understand the situation, with fan Reyla pointing out, ‘We know it’s not her fault but this hurts [so much] when u waited sixteen years for the day to happen,’ other were less patient.
She called the White House ‘inhumane’ and accused the administration of ‘making light of war’ by using her song Blow on a TikTok showing a missile being dropped (Picture: Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty)
‘Having a flight from Australia to Europe just one day before the concert is actually a crazy thing – can’t believe Kesha’s team didn’t think that flights could be cancelled,’ fumed one attendee. ‘Why didn’t she have a flight just few days early and not day before the show. This could’ve been prevented.’
Kesha’s Instagram post followed hot on the heels of her slamming the White House for using her song without permission, calling them out on Instagram for including her track Blow from her 2010 EP Cannibal in a video showing jets soaring in the sky before one launches a missile and destroys what appears to be an enemy ship.
The explosive hit is timed with Kesha’s lyric, ‘This place about to blow’, while the caption is simply the word ‘Lethality’ with a fire and eagle emoji.
‘It’s come to my attention that The White House has used one of my songs on TikTok to incite violence and threaten war,’ Kesha responded on social media.
‘Trying to make light of war is disgusting and inhumane. I absolutely do NOT approve of my music being used to promote violence of any kind.’
@whitehouseLethality 🔥🦅
♬ original sound – The White House
Kesha called it ‘the opposite of what I stand for’ (Picture: Getty)
Insisting that ‘love always trumps hate’, she continued: ‘Please love yourself and each other in times like this. This show of blatant disregard for human life and quite frankly this attack on all of our nervous systems is the opposite of what I stand for.’
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She then signed off by imploring that this not ‘distract’ people from the Epstein files, calling Trump a ‘criminal’ and alleging he is ‘a predator’ as she claimed his name appeared in the files ‘over a million times’.
Kesha joins a long line of musicians who have been vocal in their contempt for Trump’s administration using their work without permission before, including Radiohead – who just last week took exception to their song Let Down appearing in an ICE video – Olivia Rodrigo, the Rolling Stones and Celine Dion.
Stop using my music, perverts @WhiteHouse
— kesha (@KeshaRose) March 3, 2026
White House communications boss Steven Cheung fired back at Kesha’s complaint, posting on X: ‘All these ‘singers’ keep falling for this. This just gives us more attention and more view counts to our videos because people want to see what they’re b****ing about.’
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Kesha’s reaction was brief and to the point, responding, ‘Stop using my music, perverts @WhiteHouse’, in a tweet that’s so far been seen more than 4 million times.
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