Todrick Hall Somehow Attributed Criticism Of His New Music Video To Slavery
Kanye West famously brought us the genius nugget of wisdom known as “Slavery was a choice.” And this Pride Month, Todrick Hall decided that he was going to use his voice as a Black gay man and also contribute to the narrative of slavery and decided to tweet out “slavery worked” because of how Todrick was perceiving the response to his newest music release. Do you know what also worked? Todrick got the attention he wanted.
So this has to do with Femuline, the latest album from Todrick. Last week, Todrick put out the ass-filled video for one of the album’s songs, Rainin’ Fellas, and hopefully, the dancers (and Lance Bass) got paid for that. Rainin’ Fellas is obviously a 2021 reboot of the Weather Girls’ Rainin’ Men, and they got nothing to worry about because Todrick did not outdo them:
Some of the criticism in the comments on YouTube are about how Todrick is only giving us one body type: BUFF. I mean, in Todrick’s defense, there’s not enough representation of muscular men in the gay community (/sarcasm). Others also continued to bring up the criticism that Todrick doesn’t support a lot of other gay Black men. Well, Todrick obviously reads the comments and he continued to bring the messiness on Twitter. Todrick knows the recipe to get maximum attention and that recipe included the words, “Slavery worked…”
https://twitter.com/todrick/status/1403763150453809155
Writer and actress, Franchesca Ramsey, decided to take the time out of her day to let Todrick know why everything about him was needing to stop it with the slavery comparisons over mean responses to a music video:
Unlike the folks that subtweet you or make vids about you I ALWAYS reached out to you directly to call you in bc I respect your talent & wanted to extend grace. criticism of you (no matter how shady) has nothing to do with slavery
— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) June 13, 2021
You need folks in your corner who will tell you that you fucked up vs what you want to hear. This is one of those times. That’s how we uplift our own.
— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) June 13, 2021
Ultimately Franchesca continued with being a well-spoken way-too-kind person and gave props to Todrick’s talent but also asked him to maybe use some non-Sean Cody-looking muscle jocks in his video next time:
I saw your other tweets, I hope you’re able to engage w some of the feedback about body diversity in your work. you have a huge audience, immense talent & have inspired a lot of folks. The best way to continue doing that is to evolve accordingly ????
— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) June 13, 2021
Other people were less kind to Todrick than Franchesca:
https://twitter.com/ERnurse86/status/1403842869203513344
Todrick kept that tweet up and tried to defend himself. Todrick claims he paid his dancers this time, is a proud Black man even though he was raised around whiteness, and called for the Black community to stop tearing each other down. But Todrick did say he’ll be more inclusive of other body types in the future:
https://twitter.com/todrick/status/1403752143262162946
https://twitter.com/todrick/status/1403760652179558401
https://twitter.com/todrick/status/1403761186873561089
https://twitter.com/todrick/status/1403760304660488193
https://twitter.com/todrick/status/1403758373154136065
https://twitter.com/todrick/status/1403757020122009600
https://twitter.com/todrick/status/1403754900081635329
https://twitter.com/todrick/status/1403755603135066113
https://twitter.com/todrick/status/1403762362184704005
Okayyyyyy, that was a long-winded way to say “stream my album” wasn’t it? Love that he’s trying to suggest that ONLY the hottest buff-bodied most Henry Cavill-looking dancers who he hired were comfortable being naked dancing. What a coincidence that was. But what, he thinks he’s gonna start using body positive images of dancers in his videos? Ha! Then he’ll just have Jillian Michaels banging down his door!
Pic: YouTube