Like karma, JoJo Siwa's "gay pop commentary" is back. Saturday Night Live used her minor controversy as inspiration for a Weekend Update segment on May 4, teasing her "new genre" music and her new look in the post-Nickelodeon era. The jokes might bother some stars, but when Siwa shared her reaction on Instagram afterwards, she seemed happy to be getting the SNL treatment.
Siwa sketch
In a Saturday Night Live sketch, "Weekend Update" host Colin Jost reported that Siwa released "her first adult single 'Karma'" and "her new good girl gone bad image," before revealing she was there to comment. In fact, cast member Chloe Fineman, who plays Siwa, wore an edgy black bodysuit modeled after the one Siwa wears in the new music video. "I'm a bad girl now!" she declared.
The two make fun of Siwa's transformation. "I look like a figure skater who joined a street gang," Fineman said, to which Jost replied, "I would say if 'Mad Max' was on Broadway." After saying she's "completely reinvented" herself in a way that "no one" her age has done, Yost addressed her recent remarks about her "new genre" music and suggested it's actually just pop music .
Siwa expressed support
These jokes went down well with Siwa. The day after the show aired, she posted an Instagram story about the clip, calling it "iconic." "I don't really know what to say," she added. "This is crazy. A three and a half minute skit on SNL..."
Her initial comments about "gay pop" prompted harsher criticism than the "Saturday Night Live" sketch. (In an interview with Billboard Tetris Kelly in April, she said she'd always "wanted to start a new genre... called gay pop.") She faced judgment and eye rolls from people who pointed out that the genre already existed , including a silent condemnation of gay pop artists Tegan and Sara. Siwa later clarified what she meant to TMZ, saying: "I definitely didn't invent gay pop, of course not. But I do want to be a part of making it bigger than it already is. I hope to bring more people to it. s concern."
For Siwa, negative attention isn't necessarily a bad thing. As she told Kelly in a Billboard interview, "You're going to see it whether you like it or not."
