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The Hill
30-04-2025
- Automotive
- The Hill
Sheryl Crow on selling Tesla to protest Musk: ‘I'm fighting for my kids'
Sheryl Crow is opening up about her headline-making move against Elon Musk, saying the public protest of selling her Tesla was a way for her to fight for her children's future. The 'Soak Up the Sun' singer shared a video on Instagram in February of her Tesla being towed away, saying she was donating funds from the sale of the vehicle to NPR in response to Musk and President Trump's calls to slash federal funding for public broadcasters. NPR, Crow said at the time, is 'under threat' by Musk, the CEO of Tesla and head of the Department of Government Efficiency. In an interview with Variety published Wednesday, the Grammy Award winner described the reaction she received for the move, which was mocked by critics, including Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr. 'This feels different, because when I came out against Walmart carrying guns, not everybody was armed — and certainly I didn't live in Tennessee, where everybody is armed,' the Nashville resident said, making a reference to her 1996 song, 'Love is a Good Thing.' 'So yeah, there was a moment where I actually really felt very afraid: A man got on my property, in my barn, who was armed. It doesn't feel safe when you're dealing with people who are so committed,' Crow said. But, she told the publication, the response wouldn't deter her from doing it all over again. 'I can't help it,' the 63-year-old musician said. 'I feel like I'm fighting for my kids. Also, that's the way I was raised. There have been times when it hasn't really been fun, but I follow my Atticus Finch dad; I'm very similar to him if I see something that seems unfair, you know?' With her outspoken political views, Crow told Variety that living in the Volunteer State can be a challenge. 'Tennessee is a hard place for me. I mean, I struggle,' she said. 'I call my representatives every single morning — Andy Ogles and Marsha Blackburn hear from me every day — because we have to stand up and be vocal and fight for the future for our kids,' Crow said of Tennessee's Republican congressman and senator. Ogles and Blackburn's offices didn't immediately respond to ITK's request for comment about Crow's remarks. 'I do think, 'Are they laughing?'' Crow said of her outreach to lawmakers. 'But it's like what Jimmy Carter said: As long as there's legal bribery, we won't ever have fair elections,' she said. 'So we have to keep raising our voices and showing up to these organized rallies.'
The Independent
15-02-2025
- Automotive
- The Independent
Sheryl Crow protests Elon Musk by selling Tesla and donating money to NPR
Sheryl Crow has gotten rid of her Tesla in protest at the car company's owner Elon Musk. The 63 year-old Nashville-based musician referred to the controversial CEO and Trump advisor as 'President Musk.' She said she had also donated money to National Public Radio [ NPR ], which she described as being 'under threat.' Crow posted a video to her Instagram showing her waving goodbye to her Tesla. In the caption, she wrote: 'My parents always said… you are who you hang out with. 'There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla. 'Money donated to [NPR], which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes that the truth will continue to find its way to those willing to know the truth.' Last week it was reported that Tesla sales are plunging worldwide amid Musk's new role in the Trump White House. Tesla sales in France fell 63 percent last month over the previous January, and sank 59.5 percent in Germany in the same month-to-month period amid a backlash against Musk over his support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. That was the worst January since 2021 for Tesla sales in Germany. Sales were also down in the UK. In China, one of the company's largest markets, sales were down 11.5 percent in January year-over-year, while Tesla's Chinese rival BYD hit a nearly 50 percent increase during the same period. 'There is an argument to be made that Tesla is beginning to be penalized for Musk's close relationship to Trump,' Mike O'Rourke, chief market strategist at Jonestrading, wrote in a research note, Bloomberg noted. Crow has long been known for her political outspokenness. Her 1998 album The Globe Sessions was banned from sale in Walmart stores across America because of a lyric on the song 'Love is a Good Thing', which she refused to change: 'Watch our children as they kill each other / With a gun they bought at the Walmart discount stores'. Another track, the scathing protest song 'Redemption Day', was written after Crow played a USO (United Service Organisations) show to American peacekeepers in war-torn Bosnia and was struck that there had been no equivalent intervention by the US in the Rwandan genocide. 'At the time it was pretty graphic to see dead bodies in Rwanda on TV and to know that no one was stepping in to defend these people,' Crow told The Independent in 2021. 'That was the impetus for writing the song.'
