Sep 26
'Girl Please No' – Jojo Siwa's Latest Look Leaves Gay Twitter Gobsmacked
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.
The dust has more or less settled following Kristen Stewart's trolling of reliably outraged conservatives when she wore a jockstrap on the cover of Rolling Stone,but the 21-year-old singer has upped the ante: The New York Post reports that Siwa is the star of an even more head-spinning cover image for Ladygunn Magazine in which she sports a "bedazzled chest plate" in the form of a ripped male torso complete with washboard abs.
Completing the look is "an equally blinged-out jockstrap" that's packing enough of a bulge that Siwa is able to grasp it in her hand in one of the photo shoot's memorable images.
"As she squatted on one cover, Siwa capped off her look with a pair of embellished gold combat boots," the Post narrated. "In her second cover, she showed off her guns while still rocking the chest plate, which bizarrely featured added nipples and abs."
"We can't just do a cool photo shoot and hope for the best," Siwa told Ladygunn. "It has to be what is the next Halloween costume."
Indeed, Siwa was upfront that making waves is the idea, telling the magazine, "I learned at a very young age that in the public eye, any attention is attention," Today relayed.
As Siwa continues to experiment with how to change her image from the child entertainer she once was to the out woman she's become, not everyone's a fan of her latest look. Gay Twitter crackled with both excitement and shock at the images.
"Raise your hand if you've ever been personally victimized by JoJo Siwa" the Post quoted one fan commenting, while another groaned, "Girl please no."
But others rose to her defense, with some pointing to other recording artists with striking looks like Lady Gaga and Chapell Roan.
This is not the first time Siwa has left fans and critics alike with whiplash; last spring she debuted a radically different style that seemed to pay homage to none other than the rock back Kiss.
What do YOU think of Jojo Siwa's new look – bold, bad, or in between?
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.