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.
https://twitter.com/MONSTAX4GRAMMYS/status/1292056363082715137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1292056363082715137%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mensxp.com%2Fsocial-hits%2Fnews%2F79208-indians-tear-into-american-influencer-james-charles.html
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
