Addressing his recent comments concerning the opera and ballet, Doja Cat has weighed in on the backlash against Timothée Chalamet who’s come under social media fire from the performing arts community after claiming that the general public doesn’t care about ballet or opera anymore.
Taking to TikTok, the superstar singer called out the thespian by name and insisted that ballet and opera are thriving art forms, stating:
“Opera is 400 years old. Ballet is 500 years old.” “Somebody named Timothée Chalamet – big guy, by the way – had the nerve to say on camera that nobody cares about it. I’m sure you can walk into an opera theatre right now, seats will be filled out, and nobody’s saying a word as the performance is going because everybody has that much respect for it.”
Praising ballet dancers for their dedication and commitment to their art form, the songstress (born Amala Dlamini,) described ballet as “an amazing theatre medium” adding:
“It doesn’t matter if the industry is having a tough time at any time… a lot of industries have a tough time. Your industry has a tough time. My industry has a tough time. Doesn’t mean people don’t care about it. People care. Dancers care. The singers care. The audience cares.” “There’s still an audience. People give a f**k. You show up in a nice outfit, you sit the f**k down and you shut the f**k up. That’s the usual etiquette around those things. Maybe learn something from that.”
It was during his February Variety and CNN discussion with Matthew McConaughey, that the multi-Oscar-nominated Chalamet appeared to dismiss ballet and opera while talking about preserving the cinema experience, explaining:
“I admire people (saying), ‘Hey, we gotta keep movie theatres alive. We gotta keep this genre alive.” “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore.'” “All respect to the ballet and opera people out there… Damn, I just took shots for no reason.”
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Author: Saul Goode
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