After joining in on the internet’s crucifixion of Timothée Chalamet over his saying that “no one cares” about ballet and opera, Doja Cat is now walking back her criticism.
The rapper slammed the actor in a since-deleted TikTok video from Tuesday, only to express remorse in a Wednesday follow-up TikTok video, telling her 27 million-plus followers that she made her initial remarks “in the heat of the moment.”
“I am going to come out and say that I know nothing about opera. I know nothing about ballet,” Doja Cat clarified. “But in no way shape or form am I like a real professional dancer … I’ve never been to a ballet.”
“I’ve never seen an opera,” she continued. “And I took it upon myself yesterday to kind of give it to the man because there is a culture based around outrage and things like that and people want to feel like they’re part of something. It’s a need to connect, whether good or bad.”
Doja Cat explained that she had a change of heart after watching a TikTok video of an unnamed man who is “well-versed in opera.” She said the TikTok user broke down Chalamet’s response in a way that made her adjust her opinion.
Noting that although she thinks Chalamet “poorly” made his comments, she now believes what the actor said is true, adding, “Opera and ballet are really [an] old art form, and it is a dying industry.”
“What I was doing yesterday was virtue signaling because I wanted to connect and I knew that Timothée’s goof-up was something that I could leverage in order for people to connect with me and fuck with me,” Doja Cat admitted. “And it’s easy. It’s a modern way to garner clicks, likes, approval and all kinds of things like that from people. And so I did that yesterday, and I didn’t really think about why I was doing it.”
The songwriter also confessed she made the video in an attempt to try to “seem sincere” to her social media audience.
“I wanted to be pat on the back the way everybody else is patting each other on the back in the comments sections. And I wanted to look like a hero, and that’s what happened. And when I got it, I didn’t like it so much.”
She told her followers that she’s “not proud” of her previous video,” adding, “It just kind of furthers the fact that sometimes I think shit and then I’m like, never mind. So never mind.”
Chalamet’s remarks in question came during a celebrity.land and Variety town hall event in Austin, Texas, alongside Matthew McConaughey last month.
“I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore,’” Chalamet told McConaughey. He quickly added, “All respect to the ballet and opera people out there. Damn, I just took shots for no reason.”
Social media users quickly banded together to torch him online, including multiple ballet and opera companies like The Los Angeles Opera and London’s Royal Ballet and Opera.
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