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 public service announcement 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 Sept. 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump, the multi-hyphenate musician told the Hollywood Reporter 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 Taylor Swift 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 Instagram .

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.

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