Twitterati Tear Into American YouTuber James Charles For ‘Mocking Indian Classical Music’

New Delhi: Popular American makeup-artist and beauty YouTuber James Charles received flak from Indian netizens over his new TikTok video that surfaced on Twitter on Saturday evening.

The 13-second clip, tweeted by the account @monstax4grammys allegedly mocks Indian classical music.

In the clip, James Charles has experimented with a new filter while appearing to lip-sync an Indian classical tune that plays in the backdrop of his video. James laughs in a rather derogatory manner as the tune plays and appears to be mocking classical music inviting the wrath of desi Twitteratis.

James Charles honey you are not the Lata Mangeshkar or Shreya Ghoshal you think you are..pic.twitter.com/cshKFRsdFn

— Yun is a ho(e) WOLO IS COMING (@MONSTAX4GRAMMYS) August 8, 2020

A lot of folks took to Twitter to express outrage and here’s how the comment section looked like:

do they even know how hard classical music is to learn

— ᴀᴅɪ⁷ (@taegiphiIe) August 8, 2020

it literally takes years to learn classical music and they take it as a joke.

— rach⁷ taejin day (@tetejinfm) August 8, 2020

It takes years and years of practice to perfect all these notes and everything and now they just mock it like that.. Ughh I’m disgusted ???

— Jiminie’sEyeSmile ⁷ ?read? (@purpleBlooded13) August 8, 2020

it takes years of training to perfect classical singing. non desis using this audio in a joking manner while majority of y’alls western favs would huff and puff if asked to hold a tune before a desi singer/musician lmao. especially NOT James Charles the jokes write themselves https://t.co/t4qxaSsPL5

— Soh⁷ (@alltoosenoritae) August 8, 2020

james charles sings like hes being choked and then he mocks indian music i wonder where tf he gets the confidence pic.twitter.com/on9S6kaSdA

— soumi | blm | flop era? (@flagpolcs) August 8, 2020

This controversy for the American YouTuber comes fresh in the wake of his last one with Alicia Keys, where he had to make a public apology after suggesting on Twitter that she shouldn’t launch a beauty brand.

.@aliciakeys pic.twitter.com/zJHmNQLvWl

— James Charles (@jamescharles) August 6, 2020