Hayley Kiyoko joins Kehlani as she slams Rita Oras new single Girls for belittling the LGBTQ community
Rita Ora has caused quite a stir with her latest single Girls, and Hayley Kiyoko is definitely not a fan.
The 27-year-old called out the singer for belittling and invalidating the LGBTQ community through her new track.
Rita collaborated with gal pals, Cardi B, Bebe Rexha and Charli XCX and recently claimed that she wanted the hit to become a bisexual anthem.
But Hayley believes the single exploits bisexuality and addressed her 991,000 followers on Instagram to explain how hearing Ritas song left her with a knot in her stomach.
She wrote: Its important for us artists to use our platforms to move the cultural needle forward, not backwards. There is a new song that came out today featuring a handful of well known pop artists that has me overwhelmed with thoughts.
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Hayley continued: I literally have a knot in my stomach now. To be clear, I fully support other artists who freely express themselves, and support male and female artists who are opening up more and more about their sexual identities.
But every so often there come certain songs with messaging that is just downright tone-deaf, which does more harm than good for the LGBTQ+ community. A song like this just fuels the male gaze while marginalising the idea of women loving women.
She then went on to explain how she felt uncomfortable with the chorus, which reads: Sometimes, I just wanna kiss girls/Red wine, I just wanna kiss girls.
The singer – who describes herself as a gay woman – continued: I dont need to drink wine to kiss girls; Ive loved women my entire life. This type of message is dangerous because it completely belittles and invalidates the very pure feelings of an entire community.
I feel I have a responsibility to protect that whenever possible.
We can do better.
And Hayley isnt the only songstress to have a problem with the song, as Kehlani also slammed Ritas single, and expressed her feeling towards the collab in a series of tweets.
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She wrote: Hate to be THAT guy but there were many awkward slurs, quotes, and moments that were like “word? Word.”
Kehlani then went on to express how she felt certain quotes werent progressive and called the lyrics harmful.
Metro.co.uk have reached out to Ritas reps for comment.
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