JoJo Siwa on the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards on April 1, 2024. She’s sparked controversy after claiming she invented “homosexual pop” style of music. (Getty/Gilbert Flores)
JoJo Siwa has simply added to the record of “unhealthy issues” she’s carried out, as queer music followers should not impressed along with her declare that she’s created a brand new “homosexual pop” style within the wake of her new single “Karma”.
Twenty-year-old former Dance Mothers star JoJo Siwa has been on the the centre of the music business in current weeks, after she dropped her first “grownup” single “Karma” alongside a surprising new look.
Within the “Karma” music video, Ms. Siwa, who’s a lesbian, takes her “grownup” theme to an entire new stage as she proceeds to hump and grind on her love curiosity. It’s a transfer that made the video immediately go viral, and despatched sapphics right into a confused frenzy on-line.
But, it appears we’re solely in the beginning of her large homosexual period, as JoJo Siwa has now proclaimed to be beginning a brand new style of music – “homosexual pop”.
Talking to Billboard, Siwa defined that when she first signed with Columbia Information, she advised the executives that she “wished to start out a brand new style of music… it’s known as ‘homosexual pop’”.
Regardless of suggesting that she wished to invent the style, the singer went on to call “Applause” and “Can’t Be Tamed” by queer artists Woman Gaga and Miley Cyrus as examples of so-called “homosexual pop”.
“It’s that world of music, the place it’s not essentially pop – it’s not supplying you with Katy Perry ‘California Women’ pop, it’s supplying you with Woman Gaga ‘Judas’,” she stated.
But Siwa’s feedback have been challenged by queer artists and music followers who’ve instructed that such a style has existed for a really, very very long time.
Canadian music stars and homosexual twins Tegan and Sara – who’re some of the notable lesbian pop music artists of all time – shared a clip of Siwa’s interview on TikTok, stitched with a brief selfie video of themselves staring into the digicam.
On social media, floods of customers have shared their examples of “homosexual pop” that existed lengthy earlier than JoJo Siwa’s “Karma” was launched final Friday.
“Elton, Bowie, The B-52s, Wham!, Queen, and the Village Persons are only a few of the ‘homosexual pop’ bands I can consider off the highest of my head,” one commenter wrote.
“Hear, no hate to JoJo, however she shouldn’t say she invented homosexual pop,” they added.
“I suppose she’s by no means heard of King Princess, Peach PRC, MUNA, Child Queen, Chappell Roan, Hayley Kiyoko, or Fletcher,” a second quipped.
“I’m so glad I can lastly make homosexual pop music now that JoJo Siwa has invented it. Thanks queen,” wrote queer Canadian pop singer Xana on X/Twitter.
Because it occurs, the “homosexual pop” used to gasoline Siwa’s new period could have truly been created over a decade in the past, as her single “Karma” is considered a discarded Miley Cyrus track.
“Karma’s A B**ch” was reportedly the title of a 2012 Cyrus single that by no means made it out of the drafts and, coincidentally or not, these lyrics characteristic in Siwa’s new track.
Cyrus labored on the track with Rock Mafia, who, once more maybe coincidentally, are listed because the producers of Siwa’s observe.