The singer Pharrell Williams has said that celebrities should stop talking about politics.
With less than two months to go until the all-important presidential election, Williams said that celebrities should focus on other things.
“I don’t do politics,” he said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “In fact, I get annoyed sometimes when I see celebrities trying to tell you [who to vote for]. There are celebrities that I respect that have an opinion, but not all of them.”
He continued:
I’m one of them people [who says], ‘What the heck? Shut up. Nobody asked you.’ When people get out there and get self-righteous and they roll up their sleeves and s—, and they are out there walking around with a placard: ‘Shut up!’
So, no, I would rather stay out of the way, and obviously, 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.
His comments come more than a week after pop megastar Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris, who she described as a “steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos.”