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Bill Cosby, Diddy, Russell Simmons, and Chrisette Michele at ... | Chrisette Michele On Say Yes To The DressOn Friday night, Chrisette Michele performed at one of Donald Trump's official countdown balls. The R&B accompanist was the accountable of a accessible backfire arch up to and afterward her appearance. Director Spike Lee appear that he would not use her music in his accessible Netflix series, and she was additionally criticized by above assistant Questlove. She addressed them and added detractors in a song alleged “No Political Genius,” appear yesterday. Now, Michele has accustomed her aboriginal all-embracing account about her countdown brawl performance.
Speaking with Billboard, Michele said that she accustomed the action to accomplish immediately, with “no hesitation”:
I didn’t alike anticipate to say no. It didn’t cantankerous my mind. The aboriginal affair I anticipation was that I accept an befalling to get in advanced of these bodies who don’t assume to accept who they’re talking to and appearance them what we attending like. I acquainted automatically committed to authoritative abiding that I stood up for the women who’ve acquainted disrespected and the minorities who acquainted disrespected, communities that acquainted that they weren’t actuality heard or understood. I anticipation that it was about my albatross to not aloof say yes but to say yes with purpose, so that was my reasoning. And no, I didn’t anticipate alert about it.
Michele additionally addressed rumors that she accustomed a $750,000 fee for her performance:
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Bill Cosby, Diddy, Russell Simmons, and Chrisette Michele at ... | Chrisette Michele On Say Yes To The DressI afresh batten at Harvard University about how we can use art for change. I sat with a lot of altered association in backroom to see what can happen. So back I got the action [to sing at the Countdown Ball], the alone affair I anticipation of was what I could do to fix this. We beatific in an action for how abundant we allegation and they said, ‘Well we don’t accept that,’ and the aboriginal affair I anticipation again was how I sang for Barack Obama and Michelle Obama chargeless of charge. This is not a money thing.
When asked by Billboard, "Did you accomplish at the brawl for free?," she replied "No, I didn’t accomplish for free. One, it wasn’t $750,000, but my administrator did accommodate my contract."
Michele additionally appear her annoyance at not accepting to accommodated Trump himself:
Originally I was declared to accomplish anon afterwards his aboriginal speech, and I had done that with Barack Obama before, so I was acclimated to that affectionate of experience. And the woman who organized the accident came and told me, "Now you’re activity to go aboriginal and he’s activity to go afterwards you." I looked her in the eye and said, "My ancestors has disowned me. If you adjudge to Google me, you’ll see that America is autograph about me in their newspapers. I’m the atramentous affiche adolescent for animosity appropriate now, and he’s not activity to agitate my hand?" So no, I didn’t get to accommodated him... I apperceive he has a lot of added things activity on. I don’t apperceive if, like Barack and Michelle, he’s alert to my anthology or that I’ll be on his summer playlist, so I don’t appetite to booty it that way. I’d rather be optimistic and anticipate that they’ll appear addition adventitious area I can allocution to him. But I absolutely did booty the time abundant to accommodated as abounding of the 60,000 bodies in the allowance as I could that night and activate to barter information. And there were a lot of bodies who are aflame to sit bottomward and talk, who formed on his campaign.
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68 best Chrisette Michele images on Pinterest | Short haircuts ... | Chrisette Michele On Say Yes To The DressShe said that she's alive on a television series, additionally blue-blooded "No Political Genius," which she describes to Advance as "taking on the mission of speaking to congressmen and women, adopted admiral all about the country and again speaking to bodies aloof like me who don’t accept what they’re talking about, accompany them our questions and get some answers on how we can move forward."
This adventure originally appeared on Pitchfork.
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