Queer pop star removes Brigitte Bardot tribute
Grammy winner Chappell Roan has renounced her tribute to the late French film star Brigitte Bardot after learning of her history of homophobic and xenophobic stances.
Following the news of Bardot’s death at age 91 on Sunday, the queer pop star took to social media to say: “Rest in peace, Mrs. Bardot. She was my inspiration for the red wine supernova.”
At the beginning of her 2023 track, which the artist described as a “cheesy gay girl song,” she sings: “She was a playboy, Brigitte Bardot / She showed me things I didn’t know.”
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She was also an ardent supporter of France’s far-right party, the National Front, and supported candidates such as Catherine Megret and Marine Le Pen.
After his time in the world of cinema, he criticized immigration to the European nation, holding particularly vicious opinions about what he described as the “Islamization” of France, according to The News.
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Her Islamophobic outburst led to her being convicted five times for inciting racial hatred in French courts.
In writings and interviews, he also compared queer people to pedophiles and criticized the #MeToo movement as “hypocritical, ridiculous and uninteresting.”