JoJo Siwa is a fan of Beyoncé, even when a joke she made at the Industry Dance Awards did stir the pot this week.
The Dance Moms alum jumped in on a runaway web bit Tuesday (Oct. 8) when she shouted out the “Break My Soul” vocalist on stage at the ceremony, telling the crowd: “I also have to say thank you to Beyoncé, just so that we can keep the dancing community safe.”
“Beyoncé, you’ve got great music,” Siwa added at the time as viewers members concurrently groaned and laughed. “We all love to dance to it. We all love you. … Someone had to, and I will be the someone.”
Though the “Karma” singer’s thank-you could appear real sufficient, it truly ties again to a pattern of some social media customers jokingly giving Bey flowers at each alternative to remain on her good facet and/or preserve affluent careers. Some folks, nevertheless, have utilized a darker which means to the joke amid so-far unsubstantiated rumors that the 32-time Grammy winner and Jay-Z are linked to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged crimes, as the Bad Boy Records founder is presently being held in custody as he awaits trial for prices of intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
When requested about her joke by Us Weekly at some point after the Industry Dance Awards, Siwa mentioned, “the internet’s going to run with whatever it is they run with.”
“They do their thing, and I can’t predict what they’re going to do,” the 21-year-old TikTok star added. “I think Beyoncé is great and she’s written a lot of incredible music that we’ve all used [and danced to].”
But whereas Siwa and different folks on the web aren’t taking sure feedback about Bey critically, the “Texas Hold ‘Em” artist’s authorized workforce is. After Piers Morgan platformed Jaguar Wright on his present Uncensored, permitting the singer-songwriter to make claims about the Carters being “monsters” who've tons of of victims, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s lawyer instructed the polarizing media character to take away the content material from his channel — and Morgan obliged.
“Their lawyers contacted us to say that those claims were totally false and have no basis in fact,” Morgan mentioned on one other episode of his present earlier this week. “We’ve therefore complied with the legal request to cut them from the original interview. Editing interviews is not something we do lightly on a show called Uncensored. But, like the proverbial cries of fire in a crowded theater, there are legal limits on us, too. And we apologize to Jay-Z and Beyoncé.”
