Popular rapper Doja Cat has said that she is not proud of slamming Hollywood actor Timothée Chalamet. This comes after the moviestar’s controversial comments about no one caring about the ballet and opera earlier this week went viral.
She had said in a since-deleted video, “Hey, by the way, opera is 400 years old, ballet is 500 years old. Somebody named Tim-oh-tay Cha-lam-et had the nerve — big guy, by the way — had the nerve to say, on-camera, that nobody cares about it.”
Reacting the following day, Doja shockingly admitted that she also knows nothing about ballet or opera.
The lyricist added that her comments were made in the heat of the moment and she only wanted to look the hero.
Her words, “I am going to come out and say that I know nothing about opera. I know nothing about ballet. I’ve never been to a ballet. I’ve never seen an opera. And I took it upon myself yesterday to kind of give it to the man because there is a culture based around outrage and things like that and people want to feel like they’re part of something. It’s a need to connect, whether good or bad.
What I was doing yesterday was virtue signaling because I wanted to connect and I knew that Timothée’s goof up was something that I could leverage in order for people to connect with me and f— with me. And it’s easy. It’s a modern way to garner clicks, likes, approval and all kinds of things like that from people. And so I did that yesterday, and I didn’t really think about why I was doing it.
That was the perfect material for me to seem sincere. But the truth is, I don’t know anything about opera. I don’t know anything about ballet, and I’ve never been to either shows. And I think I just wanted a hug. I think that’s all that I wanted. I wanted a hug. I wanted to feel like I was part of something bigger than myself. I wanted to be pat on the back the way everybody else is patting each other on the back in the comments sections. And I wanted to look like a hero, and that’s what happened. And when I got it, I didn’t like it so much.
It just kind of furthers the fact that sometimes I think s— and then I’m like, never mind. So never mind.”
WOW.
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