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Speaker 2: The Lazy Girls Guide to Bizarre celebrity cancelations. I'm Claus
Speaker 2: Stephens and I'm Jesse Stevens. And if you're listening before
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Speaker 2: favorite moments from Canceled this year. And on top of
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Speaker 2: brand new episodes dropping about the topics you couldn't stop
Speaker 2: talking about this year. Today, we need to talk about
Speaker 2: Jojo Siwa and the time or should they say times
Speaker 2: she pissed off the Internet. Jojo Sewah was a child
Speaker 2: star on Dance Mums and she invented those big, ridiculous
Speaker 2: Jojo bos all the kids were wearing for a time.
Speaker 2: She also dressed up as a member of Kiss for
Speaker 2: no apparent reason, and we will get into that. Take
Speaker 2: a few breaths, like Jojo should have before she watched
Speaker 2: her solo career, and let's begin. This is a moment
Speaker 2: from our big episode on the One, the Only, the Icon,
Speaker 2: the Greatest Jojo Siwah Karma and relatedly, the promotion of Karma.
Speaker 2: In April this year, Jojo released her debut single as
Speaker 2: a grown up artist. Come, I was a bad girl.
Speaker 1: I did some bad thos. I swear I did it
Speaker 1: off for fun and knit and nursing it never have.
Speaker 2: Not only is the song appalling, but the film clip
Speaker 2: is hypersexual and just very strange. Yeah all right, so
Speaker 2: let's just ender some vibes. Okay, so cas banch and
Speaker 2: it's and the dance is severely lacking in tricks. The
Speaker 2: dance is a series of sharp movements that will do
Speaker 2: your neck out too much. It's too much. The dance
Speaker 2: needs to be real back twenty too much. It's not
Speaker 2: good on the joints. And then it's kind of like
Speaker 2: there's a jump in there and it's not hot. It
Speaker 2: doesn't make you look good. It doesn't have any rhythm.
Speaker 2: It's just bam bam, bam bam bam, which brings us
Speaker 2: to the aesthetic, which is just kiss the band kiss.
Speaker 2: But it's a lightning thing on her on her face,
Speaker 2: and she's wearing kind of black leather as though she
Speaker 2: vented it. But that's just you just stole it. Promoting
Speaker 2: the single, she said in an interview with Billboard, I
Speaker 2: want to start a new genre of music. It's called
Speaker 2: gay pop. People got really mad. Is she gay? Yes?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding? Have you seen the film clip that
Speaker 2: it starts with her humping a girl? Yeah? No, I
Speaker 2: did say I didn't know. I didn't know. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: something interesting about the film clip is, and people have
Speaker 2: commented on this, she loves to dance about her sexuality.
Speaker 2: She loves humping, humping, dry humping. Well, she went to
Speaker 2: she is, but there's no kissing. Okay, it's like hyper
Speaker 2: sexualized without like the kind of tiny Well, I mean
Speaker 2: that's very a dance it is. It is. It's very
Speaker 2: a dance school because you kind of learn you learn splits,
Speaker 2: you learn pirouette, and you learn as aforementioned tump in
Speaker 2: a chair, so you've got three moves in your epertoire
Speaker 2: and in order to do her film clip, she was like,
Speaker 2: a hump, I'll do a jump. She does this awful
Speaker 2: jump with like bent legs. It just doesn't look right.
Speaker 2: It looks like bad anyway. So there's never been a
Speaker 2: gay pop ye. People got really upset about her, saying
Speaker 2: she was inventing a genre called gayo George Michael, George, Michael,
Speaker 2: Elton John, just so many. Then there was backlash from
Speaker 2: queer musicians Teagan and Sarah, who did a video being like,
Speaker 2: I don't think they even said anything, but it was
Speaker 2: just that audio and then being like you feel serious
Speaker 2: because they yeah, massive queer pop a while ago. See
Speaker 2: what said in the later interview, I am not the
Speaker 2: inventor of gay pop for sure. Not I might not
Speaker 2: be the president, but I might be the CEO or
Speaker 2: the CMO. She also then went on a tangent about
Speaker 2: like what I meant was like, gay pop isn't a
Speaker 2: genre like blues or wrap, And it's like, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: because it's you have four hundred people working for you.
Speaker 2: Why doesn't anyone brief you on like a line on
Speaker 2: what to say in an interview, what not to say.
Speaker 2: We rehearse, you know how hard you rehearse those dances
Speaker 2: because I did not ask my TikTok algorithm to show me.
Speaker 2: I've seen every free rehearsal of you doing a Karma
Speaker 2: dance and I must stay. Actually, I remember thinking this,
Speaker 2: this is an incredible launch, like in terms of the
Speaker 2: publicity in MS, it's incredible in terms of quantity. Quantity, Yes,
Speaker 2: the girl goes hard on quantity. She was on call
Speaker 2: her daddy. The song hasn't done well in terms of
Speaker 2: things I want to cancel Jojo Force okay, because this
Speaker 2: is what I was confused about is according to the world,
Speaker 2: that song of them performing, according to Jojo Si was TikTok,
Speaker 2: that song best was performing song ever created, which same
Speaker 2: with my in with everyone's Instagram. Yes, but when that
Speaker 2: song came out, she said something that sounded like when
Speaker 2: I wrote Karma, but not those exact words, and then
Speaker 2: everybody got mad because they were like, you didn't write it.
Speaker 2: This other artist, brit somebody had already released it. And
Speaker 2: what happens in pop music is like this brit person
Speaker 2: never properly released it, so it kind of goes back
Speaker 2: into the pool, and then Jojo picked it out and
Speaker 2: she's like, I never said that I wrote it, which
Speaker 2: her language was careful. Anyway, people got so mad at
Speaker 2: Jojo for saying she wrote it that the brit version
Speaker 2: of Karma was higher in the charts than JoJo's version.
Speaker 2: The internet just trolls her back. Yeah, I just troll
Speaker 2: her back. She also criticized online culture when she was
Speaker 2: getting some of the backlash for this, saying I could
Speaker 2: say I want well peace and everyone would be like,
Speaker 2: how dare you want peace to the world? It'll blow
Speaker 2: up In her defense, yes, that is into culture. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but also you're saying some weird things. You're saying some
Speaker 2: weird things, Jesse. Here are a couple of my favorite
Speaker 2: interview clips from her. I'd call it a promotional tour,
Speaker 2: which let's remember she's not promoting an album, She's promoting
Speaker 2: a single, okay, And this is what people in the
Speaker 2: music industry will tell you. Less making music, more promotion. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and she has heard that message loud and clear.
Speaker 1: No one has made this dramatic of a change yet,
Speaker 1: no one has made in my generation this extreme of
Speaker 1: a switch. And I am the first of the generation.
Speaker 2: It is very.
Speaker 1: Scary, but was gonna do it.
Speaker 2: She reminds me of my administration has accomplished more than
Speaker 2: almost any administration. She has the same, and she has
Speaker 2: Tom Trumper. I mean it lovingly, which is but it's
Speaker 2: like audacity, audacity and delusion. Miley Cyrus, for example, is
Speaker 2: someone who made an incredible transformation. Mana. She didn't say that.
Speaker 2: No one says that. No one says that. But then
Speaker 2: she said of my generation, I'm like, oh, you are
Speaker 2: twenty one, like something else is in her generation. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, but it just it's a
Speaker 2: weird thing to say, Honey, we need to again twenty
Speaker 2: five percent less always.
Speaker 1: And I started doing music and honestly, we started off
Speaker 1: like pretty pretty calm, like nothing like nothing like what's
Speaker 1: up right now? And then I got pitched this song Karma,
Speaker 1: and it's the first word is ours a bad girl.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh fuck, it's a good song.
Speaker 1: I was like, but I can't say that. I can't
Speaker 1: say I'm a bad girl. I'm not. I sang every
Speaker 1: Girl's a super girl last week, like I can't sing
Speaker 1: I was a bad girl this week.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work Jesse. That's from her daddy. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think I listened to the whole thing on and she
Speaker 2: was what did she with? The friend of that? With
Speaker 2: the Remember when we were in high school and you
Speaker 2: would get doorbeats. Doorbeats were disgusting the way and it's
Speaker 2: like this is distracting and no one says anything. It's
Speaker 2: just the whole time. But it's the earnestness. She's like,
Speaker 2: you know the lyrics were you think that she's gonna
Speaker 2: say something outrage but she's like, I can't. Wasn't a
Speaker 2: bad grow It wasn't a bad gros. She's like, I
Speaker 2: was eighteen, I wasn't a bad girl. But now I'm
Speaker 2: twenty one and it's like, whoa jojo? What have you done?
Speaker 2: Your hair down? Taking it at your bones? It very
Speaker 2: easy to mark. I don't think there's a word in
Speaker 2: the English language for jojo energy. It's such confidence in yourself.
Speaker 2: It is. It's a generation that grew up on believe
Speaker 2: in yourself and that's all you need to do. It's
Speaker 2: like when they talk about themselves, tears come to their eyes.
Speaker 2: They are over there come, they're moved by themselves and
Speaker 2: their own talent. Yeah, and brilliant and success. Yeah, cancel listeners.
Speaker 2: Can you help us think of a word? Yeah, we
Speaker 2: need to add a new word to the dictionary that
Speaker 2: is jojo. And also Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I am the first of the generation. Nobody can do
Speaker 1: it like me?
Speaker 2: Nobody? Yes.
Speaker 1: And my podcast, Oh my gosh, I mean, honestly, let's
Speaker 1: myst think that one of my exes.
Speaker 2: Oh, dream guess on my podcast all of my exes all. Now,
Speaker 2: I have said that sentence so many times. Dream guess
Speaker 2: on my podcast one. Why does she sound like two
Speaker 2: things smoking for fifty years?
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 2: It's like Selma from the Simpsons. What are their names?
Speaker 2: Marge's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she sounds like them.
Speaker 2: He's wearing paint, which is interesting because her instrument is
Speaker 2: her voice and she doesn't take care of it. The
Speaker 2: vocal friars out of this world. Yes, one of my axes. All.
Speaker 2: It's a way that she's so like can you believe her?
Speaker 2: And it's like you said it. She turns around and
Speaker 2: she's like, oh, that's okay. She just thinks she's so
Speaker 2: cool and chilled out and relaxed. Yes, like she's just
Speaker 2: said something candid. It's like she's writing the headline as
Speaker 2: she says it. Yeah, like Joel d And it's like,
Speaker 2: but what you've said isn't even a very unusual thing
Speaker 2: to say. It's not particularly interesting, and you've added too
Speaker 2: much energy to it. You know. People say like it's
Speaker 2: confidence instead of competence, or something like, it's your confidence
Speaker 2: is masking a lack of substance beneath speaking of confidence,
Speaker 2: did you know that she got the I makeup that
Speaker 2: she had at the iHeart Radio Awards that were flight
Speaker 2: stopid stopid sheerves to free there. It's the same eye
Speaker 2: makeup and costume that she wears in the film clip
Speaker 2: for Karma. Anyway, she got that tattooed on her forearm. Oh,
Speaker 2: you're gonna regret that. Gonna regret that, Jojo. This is
Speaker 2: why we need to do things in arms. We just
Speaker 2: need to be a little bit more half hearted with
Speaker 2: what we put out into the world. Jesse. Here are
Speaker 2: some of the reactions to Karma. I want you to
Speaker 2: read them, all right, tell me why. I just watched
Speaker 2: Jojo Seawa's music video and she was humping the girl
Speaker 2: so harshly. I have tears. I'm embarrassed in this community
Speaker 2: that video should have stayed in the drafts. Yeah, correct, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: here we go. The film clip is just I don't
Speaker 2: think she's very good at cory. Yeah, I reckon that.
Speaker 2: If Abby Lee teaches her a dance, I think she
Speaker 2: can pull it up. I don't think she's a choreographer. Okay,
Speaker 2: I need everyone to know. The label told Jojo sewat
Speaker 2: no on the budget to create this music video, so
Speaker 2: she paid for the entire thing herself, co directed it,
Speaker 2: and co choreographed it. She talks quite emotionally about how
Speaker 2: she had the concept for this video two years ago,
Speaker 2: and then you're like, oh my gosh, what is the concept?
Speaker 2: What's it trying to say? It's you are dressed as
Speaker 2: cussed on an island neck. Yeah, yeah, throwing your neck out.
Speaker 2: Get that. JoJo's see video off my timeline. I'm begging.
Speaker 2: I feel exactly the same because it wasn't just the
Speaker 2: music video. It was then everywhere Jojo goes, she's like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. Everyone's like
Speaker 2: please straight you can surprised. She's a pride and everyone's
Speaker 2: like she's doing it. There's one in I think Times
Speaker 2: Square there's like and I'm just like, Jojo, you're gonna
Speaker 2: hate yourself because she slams too hard. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: you're young now, but your ankles can't handle it. Jojo. Me,
Speaker 2: that wasn't an earthquake. I was learning, Jojo, see why
Speaker 2: choreography now? That was in response to there was actually
Speaker 2: an earthquake, and there are a bunch of tweets being like,
Speaker 2: not an earthquake, not an earthquake, A show an earthquake?
Speaker 2: That got to Coda Johnson drawing that interview correctly was correct. Question. Finally, Jojo,
Speaker 2: have you learned nothing? There's a viral moment from Dance
Speaker 2: Mums where Jojo asks the question and Abby yells at her.
Speaker 2: This is what she says, don't you.
Speaker 1: Know the order episollas?
Speaker 2: Have you learned nothing? What she say She's like, do
Speaker 2: you know the order of the solos? Do you know
Speaker 2: the order of the solos? The order that we're going
Speaker 2: in for our solo for WANs and she asks someone
Speaker 2: happy it's just furious. She wasn't yell have you learned nothing?
Speaker 2: But angry.
Speaker 1: Jojo.
Speaker 2: She's so bad, she's so angry. People say JoJo's face
Speaker 2: is actually quite cute. Reaction to that, because she's not skeed,
Speaker 2: she's just confused. She looks like a puppy. It's the
Speaker 2: kind of scream you would do if your child ran
Speaker 2: onto a highway and was really like their life was
Speaker 2: in danger and you just had a second to get
Speaker 2: them back. Jo She asked the stupid question. She does time.
Speaker 2: But my point is now the internet is yelling the
Speaker 2: same thing at Jojo because she's released another song. Oh
Speaker 2: has she called guilty Pleasure? Why have I not heard
Speaker 2: this where it's a publicity Well, where's the publicity pleasure?
Speaker 2: It's not different, it's not different, it's just sid on.
Speaker 2: What she's done is she's re oriented the Karma dance
Speaker 2: to face the side, and what it has is a
Speaker 2: lot of what I'm in a term a stump and clump,
Speaker 2: which is when we're just stumping really really hard, which
Speaker 2: is I think what dancers do when they're making up
Speaker 2: for a lack of excitement in their routine is they
Speaker 2: just stamp really hard. And I guess if you're Jojo,
Speaker 2: you're known for your energy. You're known for your energy.
Speaker 2: But we're lacking flips, bridges, high kit. It's not enough.
Speaker 2: Jesse here are the reactions. There needs to be like
Speaker 2: a three year break between each song so we can
Speaker 2: recover mentally. I think my for you page knew that
Speaker 2: I needed a Jojo. They go, no, it's okay, we won't.
Speaker 2: Someone's written in capitals, Jojo, what's this? That's me? I
Speaker 2: think my pleasure piece just shriveled up and died. True, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 2: Pleasure Piece is part of the Levy Okay. JoJo's biggest
Speaker 2: fan is Jojo, and I do agree with that the
Speaker 2: numbers were taken by that dance, and she's the one
Speaker 2: who you know, we need to make up of TikTok dance.
Speaker 2: The idea is that it goes viral and them people
Speaker 2: do it. I've not seen a single person catch on.
Speaker 2: The only person I see do JoJo's dance is Jojo.
Speaker 2: People mocking. Nobody has been like all in earnest learn
Speaker 2: this dance to look like Jojo, which could be a
Speaker 2: genius PR strategy. Yeah, because a lot of people have
Speaker 2: recreated it to laugh at it. To listen to that
Speaker 2: entire episode, click the link. In our show notes, we
Speaker 2: talk about her time on dance Mums and when she
Speaker 2: dressed up as a monkey. We're recanceling three things every
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