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MINI SCROLL: Bieberchella (ft. Annabel), Sabrina Carpenter Zaghrouta backlash + Cardi B fan concert ticket drama · Mini Scroll

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  All right. Welcome, Annabelle.
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  Hello. Okay, so if you guys listen to
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  this pod, then you'll probably know why Annabelle is here for
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  this first story. But the first story that I have
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  for you guys today is Bieber. Chella is pulling in some mixed
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  reviews and Annabelle is here to represent the Believers.
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  I have the. Weight of the fandom on my
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  shoulders. I feel it.
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  OK, so let me set the scene for you guys 1st and then we'll get
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  Annabelle to share like why? She actually should be here
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  representing the fandom. So Justin Bieber, we know he is
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  headlining Coachella this year. It's his first time headlining
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  festival and he was paid a reported $10 million for the
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  gig, which is the most that a Coachella headliner has ever
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  been paid apparently. The next highest was reportedly
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  $8 million. So Justin came on quite late
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  Saturday night, apparently around like 11:30 PM, And his
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  performance has had mixed reviews.
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  Critics are calling Justin's performance, quote, UN quote
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  lazy as it was shorter than expected.
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  And he appeared to be seated. This is not for all of it, but
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  for part of it. He was like, seated with his
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  laptop where he pulled up YouTube, which was broadcast on
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  the screen behind him, which I actually kind of liked.
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  And he played clips of his music videos and sang along and like,
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  essentially encouraged the audience to participate.
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  And a lot of people are comparing it to karaoke.
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  The biggest criticism that I have seen is that if we compare
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  his performance as like the headliner of all of Coachella to
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  the performance of literally any female artist ever, headliner or
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  not, a woman pop star would never have gotten away with
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  something like this. So, Annabelle?
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  I'm so nervous. Like, can you give us a bit of
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  insight into your belieberdom? Is that what it's called?
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  Is that what you call belieberdom?
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  I was like Belieber history, like, I don't know.
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  I have been locked into JB since 2011, so that has been over half
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  my life. My room was like covered in
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  posters of Justin and I was so invested in the fandom.
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  That was like truly my introduction to Internet
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  culture. I would say like I was putting
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  in the work. I was running JB like Facebook
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  pages. I literally made lyric videos
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  and posted them on YouTube. They're all gone now.
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  I don't know where they are. I was doing this like as a
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  tween, like I was marketing. I was marketing, marketing.
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  You were a media girly from the. Start, Yes.
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  And like, when he kind of went through his, like, troubled
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  stage for lack of a better time in 2014, like, I feel like I had
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  to prepare myself to, like, go in and defend him at school.
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  Like, it was crazy. It was a universal experience.
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  I think if you were a believer, even though it's very specific
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  and also I understand I sound insane.
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  If you haven't had the experience of fandom, you will
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  think I always sound delusional. And there is there is delusion
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  there. Yeah.
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  But like, it's just it's just me having fun.
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  OK. Like, I was just having fun.
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  I also ended up meeting Justin in 2015 and he also filled me on
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  Twitter, which was a claim to fame.
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  That's crazy. Yeah.
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  So I guess that's like the history of my obsession with him
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  and yeah, like ever since the My World era.
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  OK, I love that. So let me read some of the top
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  comments that I've seen online from some of the criticism
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  around Justin's performance and then we can get into it.
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  OK, OK, I'm scared. OK, so somebody on TikTok, be on
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  TikTok wrote the performance doesn't have to be over the top,
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  have a bunch of choreography or costume changes.
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  I actually really enjoyed his grandma's performance.
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  He got on stage, played an instrument, sang, stripped down
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  vocals which was beautiful. Beautiful.
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  He could have done something like that for Coachella which
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  would have fit who he is as an artist now.
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  People would be OK with that. It's the fact that he basically
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  sang karaoke over his old music videos with what seems like no
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  thought or effort into his performance.
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  The With You moment and harmonizing with the YouTube
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  video was cool and a full circle moment, but to continue doing
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  YouTube karaoke with all of his hits and then scroll through
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  memes was kind of wild. He was paid $10 million.
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  Imagine if Adele got on stage, pulled up a laptop and started
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  playing a video of 15 year old performance and then started
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  singing half vocals for it. There be headlines about her.
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  The Internet would crucify her, Her talent would be questioned.
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  And that's the point. It's not about what fits them as
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  an artist, it's about how a man is able to do bare minimum and
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  be celebrated when women have never been given that grace and
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  then Cherish on TikTok wrote. Why are people acting like
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  Justin did this out of the kindness of his heart for his
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  fans? He got paid $10 million.
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  He needs to put on a show. So how, how, how does this make
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  you feel? OK, well, I feel like I should
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  explain like my like how I felt about watching the performance
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  and I can like talk about the believer perspective and like
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  the response to some of the criticisms I guess.
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  OK, so I obviously enjoyed it because I'm a long time fan of
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  his. I thought his vocals were tea.
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  The set design was like simple, but I thought it was cool and I
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  really did love like the YouTube component because it is how he
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  started like I really enjoyed that part of it and seeing the
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  live stream comments on the big screen.
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  I thought that was very on the pulse for like Internet culture
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  right now with streaming culture and him in his like Twitch
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  streamer era. I agree, I actually liked seeing
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  YouTube behind him. Yes, and like, I loved how
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  intimate and interactive it felt.
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  And I know this is like going to sound like super parasocial, but
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  the stripped back component of the show, like seemed genuinely
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  him like, and I know those tweets kind of said that's not
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  enough. Yeah.
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  But for me it was enough because like, and I think for Believers,
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  it was enough. For years.
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  He so clearly like hated being a puppet and like kind of shoe
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  horned into that like pop star mold.
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  Like that was very clear in his like, recent tours.
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  And like he's just no longer Justin Bieber, the pop star
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  literally like descending from the ceiling with wings.
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  I don't know if you ever saw that in like the believe tour.
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  I don't know. I'm kind of in two minds with
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  the criticism. Like we'll get more into it, I
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  think. But I feel like if you've been
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  tapped into him recently, like there was no way he was going to
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  do a high production performance between the Grammys performance
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  and also the roll out of swag and swag 2.
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  It was completely low fi. There was barely any promotion.
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  His performance didn't surprise me.
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  I'd like, I don't know. And I feel like that might be
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  part of the reason why. Like it wasn't a disappointment
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  I guess. Yeah, like I understand that.
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  I think if the believers are happy with it and the people who
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  were at Coachella and paid like a bajillion dollars are okay
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  with that, then I guess like, who are we to say that this was
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  like not a great performance? I did see a tweet that said as
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  the highest paid Coachella performer, it's a slap in the
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  face to all the women that put in so much work and effort to
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  put on an incredible show just to be paid less than a man
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  playing old YouTube videos and singing along to them.
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  Which I kind of do agree with to an extent for sure.
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  And I mean, I know you and I were talking about how it's
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  like, well, he obviously doesn't want to be like Justin Bieber,
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  the pop star anymore. Like, this is his new era, which
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  I understand. But then like, maybe choosing to
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  headline Coachella like isn't and the place for you because it
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  should be, in my opinion. Like people are paying so much
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  money to go to Coachella like I think it should be.
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  There should be some effort put into it, or at least appears to
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  be some effort. To me, I feel like to me and the
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  founder, I think this is the fundamental difference.
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  I don't feel like he just went up there underprepared.
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  I think like his vocals were on point.
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  Like I, I think there is work that goes into that and I think
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  obviously it's a different level of commitment to a really high
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  production show. For me, it would take a lot to
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  call a performance lazy. I think what is lazy is someone
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  cancelling for no reason or pulling out halfway.
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  Like to me that wasn't lazy like because he didn't have like the
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  high production value. But I just want to say quickly,
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  like, of course I agree with the like the women versus men male
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  pop star conversation. Like women have to do double the
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  amount of work to get half as far.
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  And of course, if a woman had a set like that, I don't think
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  there would be as many people defending him.
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  But I will say, like if one of my fave pop Divas, female pop
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  Divas did it sound like that, I would love it too.
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  Like I love the intimate vibe that it had.
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  Yeah, I do actually think that was an interesting part of it is
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  like he somehow was able to make such a ginormous performance
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  feel a little bit more intimate than anything else.
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  Yes, I think, and I know I probably stood up on Minnie and
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  it sounds like I am Chapel runs like #1 fan and I actually like
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  I really do like her music, but I don't really care about her
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  otherwise. But I just kept thinking about
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  Chapel in this moment because you know, a lot of the believers
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  I have seen online, including you, Annabelle, you've been
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  saying like, well, he just doesn't want that anymore.
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  Like, we're just happy he's still here and all this kind of
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  stuff, which is like, valid. But I think we need to hold the
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  same energy then for the men in the industry that we hold for
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  somebody like Chapel, where it's like we constantly hear, OK, if
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  she doesn't want to be paparazzi, if she doesn't want
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  to have this like type of career where she's so visible and
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  famous. Like there are ways around this.
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  Like we never see Beyoncé when she doesn't want us to see us.
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  You know, like if she wants to go to Paris Fashion Week, she
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  can go through the back instead of going through the front where
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  all the paparazzi are. Like, that's always the argument
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  around Chapel. So it's like, OK, then let's
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  hold the same energy for Justin Bieber in this performance is
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  how I feel. It's like if he doesn't want
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  this, nobody, you know, made him headline Coachella for $10
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  million. Like that comment said, like
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  we're pretending like he was doing us a favor.
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  Like he was paid $10 million for this.
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  No, I understand the Chapel point in comparison, but I think
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  it's one thing to say that Justin Bieber didn't want to do
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  a performance like a high production performance like
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  Sabrina Carpenter versus he didn't want to be up there at
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  all. I think he enjoys performing and
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  enjoys singing and I think that's what he did on the stage.
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  But then he should stick to the 500 person shows that he's been
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  doing in LA. That's a beautiful, intimate
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  performance that could be low effort like Coachella.
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  There's just like, different levels here.
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  And it's like there are different expectations for
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  different types of performances. Like you can't just like show up
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  to these moments in your job and expect it to all just be fine
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  because of like who you are. That's what I think.
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  That's what I think. Like you have to show up for
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  your job. Like sorry.
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  Yeah, OK. I, I agree.
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  But I think that the fundamental difference between you and me is
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  that I think he showed up and you think he didn't.
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  I actually don't know if I think he.
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  I think, yeah, I think he didn't.
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  I think he didn't to the degree that he probably should have
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  for. Coachella, OK.
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  I also think Coachella is an interesting festival because
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  they do tend to have legacy acts.
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  In theory, he is the legacy act of this line up like of the
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  headliners. And I think with a legacy act,
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  sometimes different expectations are at hand.
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  But I still do agree that like if the people who were there and
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  the believers are happy with it, like this performance wasn't for
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  me, so that's OK. And yeah, once again, I feel
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  like people on the Internet are getting mad.
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  Like, I haven't seen anyone at Coachella say anything bad about
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  it. In the same way.
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  At the Grammy performance, a lot of people in the room, a lot of
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  the celebrities were, like, praising him.
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  And then the Internet like was like, what the hell is that?
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  But as far as like the looking like bored on stage, like the
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  laziness allegations? Allegations.
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  Like I know this is going to sound like super parasocial, but
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  like I genuinely think he was the happiest he has been on a
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  stage for years. And I think that speaks to like
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  the wider sentiment among the fan base.
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  Like, there were literally points in his career where
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  people, I know you kind of mentioned this where people
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  thought he was like going to die between, like, his addiction and
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  like various more recent health issues.
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  So I think like, yeah, believers were happy.
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  Like, they were just happy to see him actually enjoy being on
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  stage. Yeah.
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  And we can. I read one tweet that I saw that
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  I feel like expresses this. They were quite unpopular
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  opinion. But I genuinely think he can do
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  whatever the hell he wants. Watching the world literally
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  drain the light from his eyes since childhood and honestly
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  blowing up the way he did in the YouTube era, it all makes sense.
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  Let him live. Yeah, and I have also been
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  considering it like from the perspective of Britney Spears,
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  like if Britney after everything she's been through, like
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  because. That is more like that is the
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  era you were like a tween or maybe be younger.
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  Well, also, it's not even just that.
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  It's just like, OK, she also the way that fame affected her and
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  whatever she experienced and what she saw, it's different.
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  But I feel like let's say if we're going to say like Justin
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  went through like so much, like Brittany also went through so
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  much, right? So it's like if I'm comparing it
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  like that, where it's like they both had these like really,
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  really hard times in their careers.
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  Unfortunately, I think Brittany is permanently changed, like
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  permanently altered. But if she was going to headline
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  Coachella, I actually do think the fandom would be OK with
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  whatever she did on stage. And I kind of think that is the
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  sentiment. As long as like he seemed happy,
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  I think that was the take away. I think it's so funny that
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  people are like really leaning into the karaoke like throwback
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  part of a performance because it was literally only like 20
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  minutes of the whole show. Like the rest of the show was
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  him like walking around the stage, like performing to the
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  camera, performing to the audience, like singing.
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  And also the music itself of swag.
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  And swag 2 is like way more chill.
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  So it's never going to be like that hype up set that I feel
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  like some people maybe were expecting.
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  You know you are starting to change my mind.
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  Oh my God, really? Well, I wasn't, I wasn't like
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  fully on the side of like, Oh my God, this was like crazy that he
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  did this. But I understand, like the
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  performance at the end of the day for the critics who are not
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  Justin Bieber fans, like it's not for us.
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  Also, I do want to say like, I need to make this clear.
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  Do I think he should have been paid $10 million for that?
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  No, because I don't think anyone should be paid $10 million like
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  that amount of money unless they're like a teacher or a
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  doctor like. Saving lives, that's that's
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  teaching the children. Yeah, like, that is a lot of
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  money for like, yeah, like I, I think that's the problem.
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  That's the problem with the music industry at large, I
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  think. It's like entertainment.
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  Yeah, yeah. There's also an element of this
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  discussion around his masters and what the YouTube videos like
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  meant in relation to him selling.
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  His masters, yeah. So I don't know exactly what's
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  true because we don't know the contract of when he sold his
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  masters, but I have seen discourse pop up that apparently
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  maybe he's not allowed to perform these songs.
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  Or I've seen some people responding like he's allowed to
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  perform them but he won't make money off it.
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  But I did see a quote from the conversation that kind of
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  explains how he sold his masters and why he did that.
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  I thought I should read quote. This means that when his songs
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  are bought or performed, the share of the income that would
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  previously been a royalty payment to Bieber now goes to
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  the company that bought it. The company is hoping that over
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  time, these royalties will exceed the upfront payment and
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  made to Bieber, and so it will profit from this investment.
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  When artists tour, they can make money from ticket and
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  merchandise sales, but they also receive a royalty when their
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  music is performed. Bieber doesn't own his back
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  catalog anymore, so he won't receive that royalty when he
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  performs those songs. OK, well, what do you guys
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  think? Do you think that this was a
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  Coachella headlining worthy performance?
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  Yrn? Let us know in the comments.
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  The answer is yes. All right, the next story that I
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  have for you guys today is that another Coachella story is
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  Sabrina Carpenter is facing backlash for quote UN quote
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  mocking an Arabic celebration call during her performance.
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  So Sabrina Carpenter, who did put on an amazing show at
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  Coachella, is also facing backlash after she made some
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  rude comments about a fan's celebration cry during her set.
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  During Sabrina set on Friday, 1 fan let out a zagruda.
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  I'm really sorry if I butchered how to pronounce that.
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  Which is a traditional ovulation often used by women in Arabic
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  speaking communities to show excitement and celebration.
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  So Sabrina was about to start playing the piano.
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  You can hear the woman let out the zagruda because she's
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  obviously excited to be at Coachella watching Sabrina
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  perform. And Sabrina looks at the crowd
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  and goes, I think I heard someone yodel.
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  The fan does it again and in response, and then Sabrina said,
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  is that what you're doing? The fan calls back to her.
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  It's an Arabic call. Sabrina says, I don't like it.
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  Then the fan says, it's my culture.
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  And then Sabrina goes, that's your culture, Yodeling, is this
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  Burning Man? This is weird.
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  Now, I wish I could play the clip for you guys.
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  However, allegedly her team has been issuing copyright claims on
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  content that includes this clip, which is, if that is true, is
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  making this a million times worse.
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  It's giving Streisand effect and it also makes it feel a lot more
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  like insidious. You know, there's a lot of mixed
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  opinions, I think, on her reaction to this.
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  But those who are critical of how she handled this, like
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  that's only adding to their critique, of course.
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  So I'm not going to play the clip because we don't need a
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  copyright claim on this video on this episode.
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  And actually, fun fact, we have been getting maybe like once a
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  week copyright claims, not like strikes.
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  So it doesn't actually impact our podcast, but claims on our
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  episodes. And it's usually because we're
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  including TikTok. So it's usually from like
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  creators and influencers when we've inserted like sections of
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  their Tik Toks, which is so interesting.
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  I didn't even really know that you could do that for Tik Toks.
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  Like, I guess it makes sense in theory, but yeah, so we do not
• 18:22
  need a podcast that is completely demonetized.
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  So I'm not going to play the clip, but if you guys do want to
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  hear it, I'm sure most of you have already seen it.
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  And if not, you can find it like everywhere online.
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  Now. Sabrina's personality, like, it
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  is snarky, It is sassy. But this has drawn a lot of
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  criticism for being xenophobic, Islamophobic, and also just kind
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  of hateful toward the fans specifically.
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  Sabrina. Carpenter you're calling that
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  fans culture weird and making comments like I don't like it.
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  That's weird. It's so disrespectful, so
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  disrespectful. It's so rude and it was so
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  nasty. What are we doing?
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  Is this Burning Man like how disrespectful can you be?
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  Because as soon as she said it's my culture, it's praise.
• 19:04
  All you had to be is like, oh OK, move on, continue playing.
• 19:09
  There was no need for you to just make those.
• 19:12
  And how I couldn't even imagine being that fan, right?
• 19:16
  And somebody says Zahruta as your honorary auto pop culture
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  girlie, I had to get on this one because it's very clear Sabrina
• 19:25
  Carpenter did not watch Shakira's Super Bowl halftime
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  show. Those of you who have never read
• 19:30
  this article or don't have auto friends, we do this at weddings,
• 19:34
  graduations, anything that's big and celebratory.
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  Actually not even big. It's just anything that's
• 19:39
  celebratory. Karina doesn't do herself any
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  favors because she then says, is this Burning Man?
• 19:44
  What's going on? This is weird.
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  Play the clip for you guys but it's being removed off of
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  Twitter because of copyright reasons.
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  Thing tells me her team's trying to clean up the mess because
• 19:53
  it's going viral and not. In a good way, creator Amanda
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  Rollins on TikTok commented. Being insulted by your idol has
• 20:01
  to be the most brutal feeling in the entire world.
• 20:03
  Like, I don't think I'd ever recover.
• 20:05
  Others are defending Sabrina, saying that she was probably
• 20:08
  nervous, like regardless of her performing all the time.
• 20:11
  Coachella mainstage, Big deal. She was probably nervous, she
• 20:15
  was caught up in the moment. She probably didn't quite hear
• 20:18
  what was happening, the interaction, and it wasn't
• 20:21
  really like the time or place for this back and forth.
• 20:23
  Sabrina has since responded on X so not pop base wrote on X
• 20:29
  Sabrina saying that she doesn't like a cultural Arabic cheer.
• 20:32
  This is so insensitive and islamophobic.
• 20:34
  I'm very disappointed in her. And then Sabrina quote tweeted
• 20:37
  that and wrote my apologies. I didn't see this person with my
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  eyes and couldn't hear clearly. My reaction was pure confusion,
• 20:43
  sarcasm and not I'll intended could have handled it better.
• 20:46
  Now I know what is agruta is. I welcome all cheers and yodels
• 20:50
  from here on out. I agree with what Amanda Rowland
• 20:53
  said, which is being insulted or like, embarrassed so publicly by
• 20:57
  your idol who's on one of the biggest stages, Like that would
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  be something that would be so hurtful and upsetting and hard
• 21:06
  to recover from. All right.
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  And the last story that I have for you guys today, this is a
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  music filled episode, OK? A creator named Calvin Lasacano
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  has gone viral for sharing his story of getting kicked out of a
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  Cardi B concert after he tried to buy resale Cardi B concert
• 21:21
  tickets through StubHub, only to discover at the venue that the
• 21:25
  ticket had been sold with a stolen credit card and
• 21:28
  subsequently canceled. So on April 4th, Calvin posted
• 21:32
  this TikTok sharing what happened to him.
• 21:34
  I wanted to talk about something that.
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  Happened to me tonight at the Cardi B concert.
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  In Hartford, normally I. Don't complain about.
• 21:40
  These types of things usually I just.
• 21:41
  Suck it up and whatever, but I just want to talk about.
• 21:44
  This I'm going to, and in no way do I believe this.
• 21:46
  Reflects Cardi BI think that's more so reflects the venue, the
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  people who are working the venue and the ticket.
• 21:51
  Sellers just a star. I bought my ticket resale.
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  On StubHub and StubHub was to transfer my ticket to AXS which
• 21:58
  is the ticket that I need to get in the building.
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  He said he first learned something was wrong when he
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  tried to transfer the ticket to the venue's official platform
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  and found that it said it was no longer valid.
• 22:08
  After spending more than an hour with the box office staff, he
• 22:10
  was told the original buyer had used a fraudulent card which
• 22:13
  invalidated the entire purchase. The box office person is telling
• 22:17
  me my order was cancelled. Apparently the person who
• 22:19
  originally bought the ticket and was selling it on StubHub where
• 22:23
  I bought it, they bought it with a fraudulent credit card so it
• 22:26
  cancelled the entire order. The box office is like we can't
• 22:29
  make any accommodation or like you.
• 22:31
  Have to call StubHub. StubHub initially offered him a
• 22:34
  seat in the back of the venue, even though he originally paid
• 22:36
  for floor seats. After pushing back, he was
• 22:39
  eventually given what appeared to be his original ticket and he
• 22:41
  was allowed into the show. However, once he was inside,
• 22:45
  Calvin says he was repeatedly approached by crew members
• 22:47
  checking his ticket. He felt they were treating him
• 22:49
  suspiciously and then he was eventually asked to leave about
• 22:52
  30 minutes into the concert. Finally, I turn around.
• 22:55
  I'm like, hey, am I like too far out in the aisle or something
• 22:57
  like that? And they're like, where's your
• 22:58
  ticket? Where's your ticket?
• 23:00
  I show him my ticket. See E 14, this is my seat right
• 23:03
  here. He rolls his eyes at me, goes
• 23:04
  back and starts talking with that group of guys.
• 23:07
  And then one by one, each and every one of them kept coming
• 23:10
  back up to me. Can I see your ticket?
• 23:12
  Can I see your ticket? Can I see your ticket?
• 23:14
  This happened 8 times and the each time they went back,
• 23:16
  they're like nodding their head. They finally were like hey, so
• 23:19
  now we need to see everybody's ticket in this little area right
• 23:22
  here. Now here's where it gets a
• 23:23
  little bit messy. One of the girls has my seat
• 23:27
  number on her ticket valid. One of the guys was confused.
• 23:30
  He was like somebody's lying. I've been to a lot of shows, so
• 23:32
  like, I know. People purposefully do weird.
• 23:34
  Stuff but I showed him and I even pulled up my.
• 23:37
  Gmail in the middle. Of the arena while the show's
• 23:39
  going on to show. I bought this.
• 23:41
  He then stepped away, got a security guard, came right back,
• 23:44
  looked me up and down and said you need to go.
• 23:46
  So this went relatively viral and people were debating in the
• 23:50
  comments like was this Cardi's team's fault?
• 23:52
  Was the Stubhub's fault? StubHub actually did comment on
• 23:55
  this, they wrote. Hi Calvin, I'm so sorry you had
• 23:57
  such a negative experience. We'd like to look into your
• 23:59
  order to see what happened and try to find a way to make it
• 24:02
  right. Could you DMS your order info?
• 24:04
  So he has now come back over the weekend with an update.
• 24:08
  So he said after everything went viral, he was approached by
• 24:11
  again, StubHub, but also Cardi B's team.
• 24:15
  So Cardi's team reached out to Calvin and they provided him
• 24:17
  with tickets to another date of her tour, this time in
• 24:20
  Philadelphia. And they also gave him VIP meet
• 24:23
  and greet tickets. We got to meet Cardi.
• 24:25
  I posted that video Friday night, the night of the concert,
• 24:28
  and Cardi B's team actually reached out to me the next day.
• 24:31
  They apologized to me for my experience and we're looking to
• 24:34
  see if they couldn't accommodate me for another show and a meet
• 24:37
  and greet. The next closest show in
• 24:38
  Philadelphia. And that's where I'm sitting,
• 24:40
  right? Party B's team did offer to
• 24:41
  accommodate me with extra tickets.
• 24:43
  It being so last minute I couldn't.
• 24:45
  Also, I only paid for. 1 ticket in.
• 24:47
  Hartford so I felt it was only right to only do one seat.
• 24:50
  So when I arrived to the venue. I picked up my ticket at.
• 24:52
  Wilcall Then I made my way to the VIP entrance.
• 24:54
  Easy peasy. My boots were setting off all
• 24:56
  the metal detectors, but the security ladies were really fun
• 24:59
  about it. The security at this venue, can
• 25:01
  I just say they were the nicest. When I got through I went to the
• 25:05
  VIP check in, they gave me my wristband.
• 25:07
  So this was my band for the meet and greet after the concert.
• 25:11
  I was told to go to the club and I was escorted down all these
• 25:15
  different stairs and hallways. In the lounge, she had a bar.
• 25:18
  I paid $6 for water, but it was totally worth it.
• 25:21
  Not too long after we got in there, Party B walked into the
• 25:25
  lounge and I absolutely lost it. As I started getting closer, 1
• 25:29
  of Cardi B's team members walked up to me.
• 25:31
  Her name's Patience, she had recognized me for my video.
• 25:34
  Patience, if you're watching this, I just want to say you are
• 25:36
  gorgeous. You're so kind.
• 25:38
  Thank you so much for everything she said.
• 25:40
  I hope this experience was better for you.
• 25:42
  I actually think this is such a. Great example of how you handle
• 25:46
  these things when there is like APR crisis that is going viral
• 25:49
  on TikTok. I understand that if he hadn't
• 25:51
  taken this to TikTok and if he didn't have already somewhat of
• 25:54
  a platform, he's not like a huge creator.
• 25:55
  He only has like 20,000 followers or something like
• 25:57
  that. But like regardless, having some
• 26:00
  amount of following already is probably going to push you into
• 26:03
  the algorithm more and make it so that your videos can have a
• 26:07
  better chance of going viral when something like this
• 26:09
  happened. So I understand like the average
• 26:10
  person, if this happened to them and they didn't take to TikTok
• 26:13
  or they didn't have that platform may not be able to get
• 26:16
  these benefits after. But I think the way that both
• 26:19
  StubHub and Cardi B after the fact handled this or like Cardi
• 26:22
  BS team was such a good example of how to handle something when
• 26:26
  it feels like it could get out of control.
• 26:28
  Now the general sentiment is like, OK, both teams handled
• 26:31
  this well and we're so happy to see that not only did he get
• 26:34
  like another ticket or get compensated for his ticket or
• 26:36
  whatever, he got to meet Cardi B.
• 26:38
  It's like the perfect ending to this story.
• 26:40
  Anyways, guys, that's it for Mini Scroll today.
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