Doja Cat is walking back her recent criticism of Timothee Chalamet.
Earlier this week, the 30-year-old rapper and singer called out the actor for saying people don’t care about ballet or opera anymore, which has drawn much criticism.
Well, now Doja is backtracking and and admitted she made her previous video for clout.
Keep reading to find out more…
“I am going to come out and say that I know nothing about opera. I know nothing about ballet,” she said at the start of her video, noting outside of what she did when she was a child, adding that she is “in no way, shape, or form am I a real professional dancer.”
Doja continued to say that she’s not the most qualified person to speak on the subject or Timothee‘s comments.
“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,” she shared. “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‑ck 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.”
“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… I wanted to feel like I was part of something bigger than myself,” she added. “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.”
Doja added she’s not proud of jumping on the bandwagon, but after “educating” herself, she thought she should address it.
“It just kind of furthers the fact that sometimes I think s‑it and then I’m like, ‘Never mind,’” she concluded. “So never mind.”
Someone who IS qualified to speak out about Timothee‘s comments is prima ballerina Misty Copeland, who finished a 25-year-old career with the American Ballet Theatre last fall. Find out what she had to say here!
