Billboard staff react to Miley Cyrus' comments about Jojo Siwa's sexuality seemingly changing with her new relationship with her fellow Big Brother contestant, Chris Hughes and the conversation on social media that goes on regarding sexuality and celebrities especially during Pride month.
Category
🎵
MusicTranscript
00:00All right, so guys, I don't know if you saw at World Pride, Miley Cyrus posted a little video in which she said,
00:06I'm going to go back into the closet where maybe I can find Jojo Siwa.
00:09Oh my gosh, it's great. It's great. Enjoy coming out of the closet if this pride's the time for you.
00:18All right, I'm going back to the world. This is where pretzels and find Jojo Siwa.
00:23Well, as we all know, Jojo Siwa is now publicly dating a man, Chris.
00:30And so people are saying like, hey, did she go back in the closet? Was she fake gay? There's a whole thing.
00:35She can't be bad? She can't. What's up?
00:37I'm kind of shocked that Miley would post or say that.
00:40I mean, I think like people have been kind of like accusing a lot of pop stars of doing that.
00:44They were talking about Fletcher also like dating a man after she said that she was like a lesbian or something.
00:53I mean, we all know that sexuality is on the spectrum for pretty much everybody.
00:57So you should be able to kind of do what you want to do.
00:59I don't think it changes anything for Jojo.
01:01But what is interesting to me is that Jojo has always, in multiple interviews, multiple times, gave a lot of credit to Miley Cyrus.
01:08So it wasn't to be said when somebody that you look up to necessarily is commenting on your personal life.
01:13Because now Jojo is speaking out about it.
01:15Wait, so my question is, is Miley, is Miley like gay?
01:18She said she was pansexual, which means that her sexuality is fluid.
01:22So, I mean, that's not necessarily saying that she doesn't, she can't date a man, right?
01:27You know, she said before that she doesn't really care about like, you know, the gender.
01:32I'm just wondering why she's so hung up on the labels.
01:35She herself, I feel like Miley's brand is so like free and fluid and inclusive.
01:40Well, I feel like people are more hung up on labels.
01:42Like when you say that you're gay, they're like, you have to be gay.
01:44I don't know if it works that way.
01:47She can't be bi?
01:48I guess my thing is like, I guess I'm confused on what's wrong.
01:52It's like, she dates women, now she's dating a dude.
01:55She could date a woman after this dude.
01:57I'm more on your side, Gerard, because it's like, I think what happened is that Jojo was such a specific, you know, child star.
02:04And she came from that world.
02:06So when she announced that she was LGBTQ, it was such a big thing.
02:10And so many people I think rallied around her to support her being gay that I think her all of a sudden dating a man has some people on the Internet.
02:18Not speaking for myself, being like shell shocked.
02:21I mean, like, was this a attention grabbing moment?
02:24Because there have been pop stars maybe over the years that have used sexuality.
02:28But then pop stars also use like, there have been pop stars, not going to say any names, who pander to black people.
02:34Then they get on and they stop making black music.
02:36But now what are we talking about?
02:38So, like, are we judging people now?
02:39Because I'm like, we want to pull cards.
02:41It's like pandering happens.
02:42I mean, I think there's like a bigger thing where it's like, it feels like they're, you know, LGBT people are being kind of like, you know, attacked a lot with this new political climate that we're living in.
02:53Under this new administration.
02:54And I think like people kind of feel like the LGBT representation is kind of being taken away, so to speak, away from them.
03:01Even though I think like sexuality is fluid and people are just doing what they're doing.
03:05But, you know, people want to see like more people kind of fight back against it.
03:09And it just hasn't really been happening.
03:11But I don't think that's necessarily like, it's not on like Billie Eilish to like start dating a woman.
03:16Because like, you know, you know, LGBT people are being attacked, you know?
03:23Do we think JoJo should take it personally, what Molly said?
03:26Yeah, she's talking about her personally.
03:28Also, wasn't JoJo just at Pride like a week ago?
03:31Yeah.
03:32It'd be different if she like started dating a dude and just like best communicated like the queer community.
03:37She's still holding everybody down.
03:39She was there.
03:40I'm pretty sure she was there.
03:41Yeah, she was.
03:41And that's the whole point of Pride about like celebrating yourself, celebrating like your sexuality and your own skin too, you know?
03:47And like, I feel like it's such a personal decision too.
03:50And let's not forget, she has a tattoo that says the CEO of gay pop.
03:54Yeah, man.
03:55Also, again, there are artists who used to be in the black community, got famous and stopped talking about stuff.
04:02Whereas JoJo is still talking about Pride and equality.
04:07Like, bro, I'm actually mad.
04:08Not an artist, but like O.J. Simpson, he even said he wasn't black.
04:12Come on now.
04:13Someone who was black.
04:14Come on now.
04:15She done boy with O.J.
04:16I was not.
04:16She done boy with O.J.
04:18That term, I was not expecting.
04:21But you know what?
04:22I thought you were going to say a random artist.
04:24You said O.J.?
04:25Well, because I didn't remember that line that J.D saw where he's like, I'm not black, I'm O.J.
04:31And I'm like, I'm taking it.
04:33I didn't say anything.
04:34Well, listen, clearly we stand JoJo around here.
04:36We support everybody.
04:38Love you guys.