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When JoJo Siwa added alcohol to her Pride Fest performances, some fans might have raised eyebrows, but the “Karma” singer got support from one of her biggest fans.
Siwa, 21, revealed on the July 8 episode of her podcast “JoJo Siwa Now” that her grandmother was partially responsible for the new element of her stage presence.
“The idea to do this came from: I was rehearsing and we started a new routine [for] “Yesterday is tomorrow,” and my 21st birthday had just passed,” Siwa explained. “I was like, ‘I want to have a shot first.’ And my grandma said, ‘Okay, JoJo. You have to do it.’ And I thought, okay. Let’s do it!”
Siwa added that audiences went “absolutely ballistic” when they saw her drinking on stage during her recent string of performances in Los Angeles, London, New York, Miami and Chicago. She said the first time she pulled out a bottle it caused quite a spectacle.
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“I pulled out a can of Tito’s and people were like, ‘Wow. What are you doing? Is it real? Is it fake?’ she said. “And I thought, ‘B–h, it is what it is. It’s a bottle of Tito’s. ”
Sliwa even got her dancers involved. She said they are the ones who choose the alcohol she will drink each show.
“It keeps me guessing,” she said. “I did decide, though, that if my dancers want to keep putting it out, they have to put out a chaser with it.”
Siwa tries to pave her own way as an artist. She told Billboard In an April interview, she said she hoped her song “Karma” would help invent “Gay Pop,” before walking back her comments when others pointed out the long history of gay artists and fans in pop.
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“I am absolutely not the inventor of gay pop, certainly not,” says Siwa told TMZ a few days later. “But I do want to contribute to making it bigger than it already is. I want to draw more attention to it.”
“I am not the creator,” she added. “I’m not the president, but I could be some kind of CEO, or CMO, Chief Marketing Officer. I am the CMO.”
The self-proclaimed “CMO of gay pop” will release her debut EP, Embarrassing pleasureon Friday, July 12. She too reunites with Dance mothers Creator Jeff Collins to make a docuseries about her life.