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MINI SCROLL: JoJo Siwa "steals" Emeline song, Todrick Hall vs. Adam McIntyre & Billie Eilish album leak · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone. Welcome to Mini Scroll, the
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  daily Internet culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories
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  from social media, the creator economy and the digital space.
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  Every Monday through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  All right, we need to get right into this because there is so
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  much to cover today. I was very mistaken that nothing
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  really happened over the weekend after I published that episode
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  yesterday. Annabelle was like, you know,
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  there was actually like quite a few things that happened over
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  the weekend that you forgot to mention and I had seen most of
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  them and I just completely like over my head when I was
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  prepping. Anyways, the first thing I
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  wanted to cover though is that I forgot in my content recap to
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  talk about Vanderpump Villa because I am all caught up on
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  Lisa Vanderpump's new show, Vanderpump Villa, and I have a
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  lot of thoughts. OK, so basically it's kind of
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  like Below Deck meets Vanderpump Rules.
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  And my overall consensus is that I have many issues with this
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  show. I think it's the most
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  overproduced and possibly scripted reality show I have
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  actually ever seen. Like maybe selling Sunset is
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  worse, but that's about it for me.
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  The main giveaways as to how this show is so produced or why
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  this show is so produced in my opinion.
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  Number one, Eric's character, the Chateau manager, like that
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  person does not work there. Like, he is not the manager.
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  He has no power. And so many of the cast members
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  keep basically saying that to us, Like they keep saying that
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  in their confessionals. Like, well, Eric's not actually
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  the manager. Or like Eric actually doesn't
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  have any power. Or Eric actually can't get me in
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  trouble and it's such a dead giveaway that he was just cast
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  in this quote UN quote role like almost like a paid actor, like
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  his character makes no sense and the staff are like truly not
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  buying into it. The next giveaway for me that
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  this is like the most over produced scripted show ever is
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  how much of the staff like the cast, hangs out with the guests.
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  If I've learned anything from Below Deck, it's that the staff
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  of a luxury experience, they are not off the clock until the
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  guests go to bed. Whereas on this show they'll
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  finish dinner service and then the cast, like the staff who are
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  allegedly working for the guests, will like change into
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  their going out outfits and then they'll like party with the
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  guests and they'll be like I'm off the clock, like the day is
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  done. No, that is not how this works.
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  I fucking know. We all know Bravo Watchers.
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  We all know how this works 'cause we have watched years of
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  below deck and there are so many scenes of the staff, like the
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  cast just sitting with the guests, like just hanging out,
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  sitting there, chatting with them, drinking with them, eating
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  with them. It just it makes no sense.
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  So my belief here, what I think is actually happening, is that
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  the cast are being paid to be on a reality show and there are
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  actual service staff who we do not see as the audience who are
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  taking care of everyone, including the staff like
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  including the cast of the show. There is nothing inside me that
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  believes that the cast that we see on this show are the only
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  people working at that Chateau. And of course like everybody
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  else, I cannot get over how much the show is trying to make
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  Marciano into Jax and Hannah into Stassi.
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  And these dynamics will never happen again because Vanderpump
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  Rules was so authentic. These people had long standing
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  relationships. Everything that we saw in the
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  first couple seasons of Vanderpump Rules was reality.
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  Like genuinely authentic reality.
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  And they're trying to manufacture that again and it's
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  just not working. So I actually see why Bravo said
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  no to this show because it just, it wasn't going to work.
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  My concluding thoughts about this show so far is that it is
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  absolute trash, but I will of course watch every single
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  episode. OK on to the first story of
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  today that I have for you guys, the first news story.
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  So JoJo Siwa is being accused of stealing, telling her new song
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  Choose Your Fighter. In the latest installment of
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  JoJo Siwa's Messy Rebrand, she is being accused of stealing her
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  new song Choose Your Fighter. A video is circulating from
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  Spill Sesh on TikTok that shows JoJo hosting a listening party
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  for her new album. In the clip, JoJo plays a song
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  called Choose Your Fighter and tells the crowd quote I want you
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  to listen for a very special ad Lib that is about one of my
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  exes. After that video gained over
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  500,000 views, fans dug up a TikTok posted by another artist
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  named Emmeline who had posted this song that she wrote back in
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  2022. So this has led to accusations
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  that JoJo Quote, UN quote, stole Emmeline's song and was
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  basically playing it off as her own.
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  So Emmeline has actually deleted her 2022 TikTok in which she was
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  singing the song. Presumably Jojo's album or team
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  have asked her to, but she did comment on the situation she
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  wrote quote Hi 2024 fans, I'm going to make a story time soon.
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  I actually didn't sign off on it.
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  Coming out with JoJo Bracket's not her fault.
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  If my version gets love, I can still put it out after hers.
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  Thanks for the support. So people are basically taking
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  this comment and saying, Oh my God, she didn't even know that
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  JoJo was going to release her song.
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  And you know, this is JoJo stealing her song and playing it
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  off as hers. I think it's way more likely
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  that she sold her demo to Jojo's record label.
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  And when JoJo said she wrote this song for her ex, she was
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  referring specifically to the ad Lib because that's kind of how
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  she said it. Like if you watch the clip back
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  and you listen to what she says she's like listen for the ad Lib
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  I wrote it about. My ex.
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  Users also claim though that the clip of JoJo from the listening
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  party, you can hear Emmeline singing not JoJo in the
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  recording. But again, the video is like 15
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  seconds long so we have no idea how much JoJo is actually
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  singing on that track. And I am no music industry
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  expert, but apparently it is normal in this type of deal for
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  the artist who recorded the demo initially to still be on the
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  track and or you know JoJo or whoever kind of uses that song
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  now gets access to that song to sing over top of it or in
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  addition to their vocals. So I think this is a great
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  example of the Internet feeling like they are experts on things
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  that they're not. You know, there's a lot of
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  people kind of going in and saying like, whether this is the
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  truth or not, like whether Emmeline sold her demo or not.
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  Like, JoJo shouldn't be using her song.
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  She should be recording her own vocals.
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  And it's like, I don't think we realize how many songs we listen
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  to. Like all of Jennifer Lopez
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  catalog is like other people singing basically.
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  Like, there's this happens all the time.
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  It doesn't make it right necessarily.
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  And obviously the music industry has a lot of issues and they can
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  be quite predatory with how they treat artists and songwriters
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  and everyone involved in the artistry of it.
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  But it's just like the business of music, and we don't know the
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  business of music. Like, we're not experts on that
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  when it comes to this song. Emily even said this is not
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  Jojo's fault. OK, the next story I have for
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  you guys, strap in. This is a big one.
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  There is some drama. I'm sorry to bring this up
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  again, but there is some drama between Adam McIntyre, Todrick
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  Hall, and Colleen Ballinger. OK, so all of this started a few
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  weeks ago when Todrick Hall started defending Colleen
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  Ballinger against the manipulation and grooming
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  allegations on social media. Over the years, Todrick has
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  encountered his share of criticism.
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  Notably, in 2019, allegations surfaced from his former
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  assistant, who shared documents claiming Todrick's involvement
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  in a sexual harassment lawsuit. Additionally, several dancers
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  have accused him of failing to compensate all the individuals
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  involved in his music videos and productions.
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  He has also long been friends with Colleen, where the two
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  actually faced backlash for a now deleted clip of them poking
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  fun at a homeless person. Todrick was actually like a
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  YouTube, I believe first, At least that's how I knew him.
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  So if you don't know who he is, he was like a YouTube or he
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  well, he's like a singer performer, but like used YouTube
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  to help build his following in his career like that back in the
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  day. He's also been friends over the
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  years with Taylor Swift. That's like one of his claims to
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  fame. So that's kind of who he is.
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  On March 28th, Todrick posted an Instagram video of Colleen
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  performing and waitress on Broadway.
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  Back in 2019, Todrick actually starred alongside her in this
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  When social media users started criticizing him for posting
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  about Colleen, he expressed his unwavering support for her in a
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  series of Instagram comments. Across the comments, he
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  essentially accused Adam Adam McIntyre of lying, criticized
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  anyone who fed into Colleen's cancellation, and called the
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  claims against her dramatic. One of his comments said, quote,
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  might as well throw Jeffrey Dahmer and Hitler in while
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  you're at it. My point is, yes, I still think
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  that all people, even murderers, should be given the opportunity
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  for redemption. Even Hitler.
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  What the fuck? OK, in reference to Adam's
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  content, Todrick wrote quote, we watched his videos.
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  Still not enough for a reason to disown my friend and not love
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  her. So this led many users to flood
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  his comment section in defense of Adam and other ex fans who
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  have come forward and Todrick questioned their experiences and
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  protected Colleen, He wrote. Quote I don't know what grooming
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  children means to you, but I think it implies something much
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  more malicious than what happened.
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  And terms that imply a mother of three would do something sexual
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  brackets. Again, I know that that's not
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  its only definition, but it is what it implies.
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  And if that were true, she would be in jail right now, not making
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  rocks on YouTube. Then maybe I agree with you, but
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  even still, we can agree to disagree.
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  Adam later made a video addressing Todrick's comments
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  and debunking his claims, concluding in the video with
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  quote. I think Todrick's a loser.
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  I think Colleen's a loser. I think they're all pathetic.
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  The video was well received by viewers with many sending
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  support to Adam. But most recently Todrick has
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  found himself in another controversy after creating a
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  GoFundMe to help his family after their home burned down.
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  Some fans are upset that Todrick is asking fans for financial
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  help when he seemingly has the privilege and financial means to
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  support them in some way. Quote The GoFundMe for 10K for
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  his parents house that caught fire is just like what?
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  Todrick doesn't have 10K to fix his family's home, but he has
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  enough for AG wagon and a mansion in LA.
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  He's in a transitional period so he needs to beg his fans who are
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  less wealthy than him to pony up 10K in donations.
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  Honestly, one of the more pathetic things I've heard in
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  the last year, 1 user commented on Adam's video.
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  Another user tweeted quote Todrick Hall posted a GoFundMe
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  asking strangers for 10K for his family house that burned down,
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  but then hosted his birthday party last night where he had
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  horses and a petting zoo like dot dot dot.
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  So Todrick addressed the GoFundMe earlier today on
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  Instagram with a statement quote.
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  I struggle sometimes to decide whether or not to address
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  controversy, but in my experience, saying nothing
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  allows the Internet to paint your narrative and I'm not
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  interested in allowing that anymore.
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  I just want to be crystal clear. I would never spend money that
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  my fans raised during a traumatic time for my family on
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  my birthday party, he wrote. I don't really think that's what
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  people were implying. I don't think that people
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  thought that he was using the GoFundMe money to pay for his
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  birthday party. I think they were saying if you
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  can afford a petting zoo and horses at your birthday party,
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  then you can probably like this. One user said pony up 10K, but
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  we don't know his situation. I also think there were rumors
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  or like allegations a few years ago that he wasn't paying his
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  rent on his LA mansion. So I think this is a case of
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  celebrities or famous people aren't as wealthy as we think
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  they are. That's a common misconception
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  that we see a lot online. If you have any ounce of fame,
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  like people think that like anybody that has ever been on TV
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  one time is really wealthy and that's just not the truth.
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  So I don't know about that, but I know that Todrick Hall remains
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  problematic. And the last story that I have
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  for you guys today is that Billie Eilish has announced her
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  new album just days after putting her entire following
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  list on her close friends. So on Instagram today, Billie
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  has revealed that her third studio album, titled Hit Me Hard
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  and Soft will come out on May 17th Quote.
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  So crazy to be writing this right now.
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  I'm nervy and excited not doing singles.
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  I want to give it to you all at once.
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  Phineas and I could not be more proud of this album and we
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  absolutely can't wait for you to hear it.
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  Love you. Love you.
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  Love you. So this announcement comes just
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  days after she put her entire Instagram following list on her
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  close friends and gained over 8 million followers because of
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  this marketing move. However, this album announcement
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  didn't come without its hiccup. Rolling Stone magazine actually
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  leaked the album's track list in an online article.
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  After Billy announced the album, she took to Instagram to blast
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  the publication on her stories writing.
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  Fuck Rolling Stone with a clown emoji.
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  And then in another story she wrote Fuck you guys at Rolling
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  Stone. Both Billy and Rolling Stone
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  have removed their stories. That I think is just yeah, that
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  sucks. That is just not OK.
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  I think I'm going to hope without the Rolling Stone leak.
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  I didn't see the article, so I don't know exactly how it was
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  written. I'm going to hope that it was,
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  you know, maybe sent in some type of press release and there
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  was an embargo that the journalist or the editor just,
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  like, missed and they thought it would be OK to publish the track
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  list. Like album leaks and song leaks
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  and all of that kind of stuff happen all the time in the
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  industry. But for mainstream publication
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  like a reputable publication to be doing that to an artist, No,
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  no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to assume I'm.
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  I'm out here giving people the benefit of the doubt today, but
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  I'm gonna assume that was like an honest mistake.
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  Anyways, guys, that is it for today.
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  Thank you so much for listening to Mini Scroll.
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  to you tomorrow. Bye.