In a recent interview with TMZ, Jojo Siwa clarified comments she previously made about wanting to start a music genre called 'Gay Pop'.
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00:00 JoJo Siwa is walking back the comments she made about wanting to start a new genre called
00:05 "gay pop."
00:07 Former Child star JoJo Siwa is trying to show the world she's now all grown up, but it
00:12 may not be going exactly according to plan.
00:15 Siwa has gone viral for the worst reasons over the past few weeks, with many social
00:19 media users baffled by the direction Siwa took her rebrand in, and others calling out
00:24 the outlandish behavior she exhibits in interviews and other videos.
00:28 One of the most viral instances of said outlandish behavior came from comments Siwa made in an
00:34 interview with Billboard, where she talked about wanting to start a new genre.
00:38 "When I first signed with Columbia I said I wanted to start a new genre of music and
00:41 they said what do you mean and I said well it's called gay pop and they were like what's
00:45 that and I was like it's like k-pop right but it's gay pop."
00:49 Siwa immediately faced backlash over her comments, with social media users pointing out huge
00:54 gay music stars such as Freddie Mercury, Lady Gaga, Troye Sivan, and more.
00:59 TMZ caught Siwa on the street on April 10th, where she clarified what she meant by creating
01:05 the genre, sharing, "There are so many people who have made gay pop.
01:09 I am definitely not the inventor of gay pop, for sure not, but I do want to be a piece
01:13 in making it bigger than it already is.
01:15 I want to bring more attention to it.
01:17 I'm not the creator of gay pop, I'm not the president, but I might be like the CEO or