Jess Glynne has hit out on the White Home for its use of the viral Jet2 Holidays development to advertise its ICE deportations – see what she needed to say under.
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In latest weeks, Glynne’s 2015 hit ‘Maintain My Hand’ has loved a resurgence thanks to just about tens of millions of TikTok customers and counting sharing nightmare vacation expertise, soundtracked by a soundbite of the music and a Jet2holiday tagline.
The cheery jingle has now soundtracked 1.9million movies on TikTok and numerous others on different social media platforms, with almost all displaying clips of nightmare vacation experiences. These embrace fights on planes, drunken accidents and journey delays, with the audio turning into shorthand for holidays gone unsuitable.
Yesterday (July 30), the official White Home account on X/Twitter shared a distasteful put up depicting quite a few immigrants being deported out of the USA, soundtracked by the Jet2 Vacation soundbite.
When ICE books you a one-way Jet2 vacation to deportation. ✈️🎶
Nothing beats it! pic.twitter.com/hlLapr9QsE
— The White Home (@WhiteHouse) July 29, 2025
Following the put up going viral, Jess Glynne took to her Instagram Tales to criticise the White Home’s put up: “This put up actually makes me sick. My music is about love, unity, and spreading positivity – by no means about division or hate.” You’ll be able to see her put up right here.
The White Home’s put up comes as the USA kicked off a string of immigrant deportations throughout the nation in early June. These started in Los Angeles and led to riots and protests, in addition to numerous musicians talking out in opposition to the mass deportations, together with Olivia Rodrigo, Bruce Springsteen, Inexperienced Day, Addison Rae, Rage Towards The Machine’s Tom Morello and extra.
Ethel Cain, Sophie Thatcher and Boy Harsher have been additionally amongst over 100 artists to have joined a marketing campaign calling for the abolition of ICE.
Again in 2018, Jess Glynne beforehand caught flack for the music being “overplayed” by Jet2, with some social media customers complaining: “That Jess Glynne music on Jet 2 planes makes me wanna smash my head in opposition to the window”.
In response, Glynne empathised together with her critics, saying: “I’m gonna simply say to Jet2 and to everyone on the market, look – I didn’t make them do it like that. I agreed to, you already know, allow them to have my music and, you already know, I apologise if it annoys you!”
She continued: “Factor is I perceive although, if you hear one thing time and again and apparently they play it like seven instances earlier than they take off so… You recognize, it’s quite a bit!”
Earlier this month, Glynne met the voice behind the viral advert – pair then went on to recreate the advert reside on air, with Glynne dealing with vocals and Lister reciting the notorious slogan alongside her
