Australians are reacting to US rapper Azealia Banks unleashing on the nation saying she gained’t be again as a result of the place makes her “utterly miserable”.
Banks’ Melbourne present was cancelled on Saturday evening and so was her present in Brisbane on Tuesday. She solely made it to Sydney on the Aussie tour.
Hours earlier than the Brisbane present was formally cancelled, the 31-year-old took to Instagram saying she refused to carry out within the metropolis due to a earlier expertise the place she had a bottle thrown at her on stage, which she described as “the most racist, most f***ing demoralising experience” of her life.
She later adopted up the video with an inventory of strict safety measures that might have to be place for her to carry out and mentioned it might be her final time touring Australia.
“This place makes me utterly miserable and I’m too black and beautiful to have a bunch of white people in my face playing with me over their WEAK ASS CURRENCY,” she mentioned.
Point Productions then launched a press release confirming the present wouldn’t go forward.
Reacting to Banks’ criticism of the nation, some Australians mentioned the 212 hit maker’s refusal to carry out was justified.
“After reading further about her original experiences here, and the subsequent security measures she would need to feel safe, the cancellations are not surprising,” one lady mentioned.
“Nobody should be throwing stuff at performers, no matter how good or bad the performance is. That’s just dangerous,” mentioned one other.
“Well hold on … why were people throwing bottles at her on stage? No excuse for that,” wrote a 3rd.
But others couldn’t perceive why she had chosen to come back to Australia once more, promote tickets to a tour after which cancel final minute.
“Well why come back again when last time was so bad,” one particular person mentioned.
“I’m confused why she came all the way back just to cancel because of what happened last time she was in Brisbane,” added one other.
“I knew she wouldn’t follow through with her shows. Was tempted then realised it would never happen,” mentioned one fan.
Australians had been additionally fast to criticise Banks in return.
“I dunno, maybe Aussies didn’t like the whole animal sacrifice thing,” wrote man on Facebook gaining a whole lot of likes.
The remark refers back to the time final yr when Banks dug up her useless cat from a grave to “bring her back to life” as horrified followers watched on Instagram.
She then proceeded to boil the cat in a big pot of murky water.
Another particular person mentioned they was once fan however “homophobia tainted her” of their eyes.
Banks has publicly feuded with an inventory of celebrities, outraged followers on quite a few events for homophobic and transphobic feedback and slurs, and has been banned from Twitter greater than as soon as.
Azealia Banks and Australia
The rapper beforehand known as her efficiency at Splendour In The Grass in 2015 a “waste of my f***ing time”.
She additionally known as Australian crowds “violent and belligerent”.
In 2013, she infamously walked off the stage simply 90 seconds into her set on the Listen Out Festival in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens reportedly after a bottle was thrown at her, and quarter-hour into her 50-minute headline set in Sydney when a can of beer was thrown at her.
Her newest live performance in Melbourne on Saturday evening was formally “postponed” simply hours earlier than she was set to take the stage at Festival Hall, citing visa points.
But Banks lashed out on the promoters claiming it was their fault, including she wouldn’t be rescheduling the present as she had “s*** to do”.
“The promoters dragged their feet, agreed to provide a number of amenities which were not provided, I have been at the airport since 7am, there will be no rescheduled Melbourne show,” she mentioned.
On Tuesday forward of the Brisbane present, she mentioned: “I’m so sorry you guys, actually I’m not sorry. But listen, last time I was in Brisbane and y’all threw s*** on the stage and damn near almost f***ing hit me in the face with a f***ing bottle of soda or whatever that s*** was.
“That was the most like racist, most f***ing demoralising experience of my f***ing life and right now I’m on a really good track.”
She mentioned she had “enough emotional intelligence to kind of erase room for error before it happens.”
“I am a beautiful black woman and I am not going to get in front of some audience of white people for them to be throwing s*** at me,” she mentioned. “I am so not sorry. I am not sorry at all. Brisbane, y’all are just going to have to take the L and smoke it.”
A second submit claiming she would do the Brisbane present however there could be “LOADS of security measures” additionally hit out at Australian promoters once more for “slave like contracts” and visa points.
The Brisbane present was then formally cancelled.
This will not be the primary time Banks has criticised promoters publicly.
Earlier this yr throughout a topless efficiency whereas headlining Miami Pride, Banks advised followers she had been “f***ed with” by promoters with set instances and whether or not she was headlining or not, and was “so unhappy to be here”.
“But what did the fan ever do?” she mentioned to the group. “What did you guys ever do, right? I’m trying y’all, but it’s difficult.”
“I really don’t want to f-” she mentioned earlier than the microphone was lower off and she or he was escorted off stage.
