Days after the release of a video from years ago in which she uses an insulting term against the Asian community, Billie Eilish apologized in a post on Instagram.
It’s a very big controversy in which Billie Eilish has been involved for almost 10 days. On June 13, on TikTok, an anonymous Internet user posted a compilation of videos from several years ago showing the singer repeatedly using the term “chink”, a word very insulting against the Asian community. At the end of the video, we also hear the interpreter of Bad Guy making fun of the Asian accent but also African-American, facts which obviously earned him many criticisms. Hitherto silent in the face of this controversy, the 19-year-old singer chose to speak this Tuesday morning on Instagram in order to explain herself.
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“I am horrified, embarrassed”
Through a long message published as a story on Instagram, Billie Eilish wanted to apologize, while explaining that she was repeating a word heard in the song Fish de Tyler, The Creator : “There is a video montage going around me when I was 13 or 14, where I say a word from a song that I didn’t know at the time was a derogatory term used. against members of the Asian community. I am horrified, embarrassed and I want to throw up for saying this word […] The only time I have heard this word was in this song and it has never been used around me by a member of my family. […] Despite my ignorance at that age, nothing can excuse the fact that it was hurtful. And for that, I apologize ”. As for the accusations of imitating any accent, she defended herself completely: “This is really gibberish, I was fooling around and it’s absolutely not an imitation of a person or language, accent or culture. All the people who know me have seen me fool around and imitate voices all my life”. Finally, she expressed her sadness to those she had hurt: “It breaks my heart that these excerpts are interpreted in a way that may cause pain to people.”. It remains to be seen how the general public will react to it in the coming weeks …
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