On Tuesday morning, Jezebel published a story with the headline: “Katy Perry Gets Dragged to Hell After Voting for Anti-Abortion Billionaire Rick Caruso.”
In a tweet reply to the news article, a person with a few hundred followers named Rohit Sharma wrote the following message, tagging both country singer Luke Bryan and the show he cohosts, “American Idol.”
“Good. She deserves it,” Sharma wrote in reference to Katy Perry. “Between that and [Luke Bryan] inviting Ron DeSantis on stage, I would say It’s time to officially boycott ‘American Idol’ but does anyone even watch it?”
Then Bryan himself, who has 9.4 million followers on Twitter, replied: “Yea. 10 million people a week. On a slow week.”
Sharma replied to Bryan’s claim.
“Great,” they said in a follow-up tweet. “Now that I have your attn do you support him using immigrants across the country as political stunts? Do you agree with removing and [sic] references to the LGBTQ community in schools? Or banning black history? Do you agree with him denying elections? You’re influential. He’s awful.”
This past August, a Florida judge ruled that the DeSantis and GOP-supported “Stop WOKE law” was unconstitutional. As Insider reported, the law would have “clamped down on diversity training in the workplace.”
Luke Bryan has previously said he generally ‘stays out of politics’ and explained his approach to things like diversity and racism
Earlier this fall, Bryan announced during a concert that the profits from his Florida concerts would go towards hurricane relief. Governor DeSantis came out on stage as part of the announcement. When the inclusion of the Republican politician drew criticism, Bryan shared the above statement on Twitter.
This isn’t the first time this year that Bryan has weighed in on a national news story about political issues.
“Morgan Wallen uses a racial slur and he’s more popular than ever,” a TCA member said during the panel’s Q&A section. “I’m wondering what ‘Idol’ can do and what you guys can do to address this issue and maybe diversify country music more.”
“First of all, there’s racism throughout the whole country,” Bryan said. “Just to just sit here and single out country music as some kind of racist format is not altogether natural and true.”
He continued: “I think we are going to grow, and you are going to see tremendous changes. You bring up the Morgan situation — that’s a situation that I think country music and the industry is doing everything they can to recognize, and these things take time. They take time in the National Football League. They take time as a country.”
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