Jack Antonoff Trolls Followers Mad At Him For Carrying Earplugs Throughout Katy Perry’s VMA Efficiency – The Boston Courier

Jack Antonoff had a quite simple rationalization for plugging his ears throughout Katy Perry’s efficiency on the MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday ― and it had nothing to do with Perry herself.

The Bleachers frontman and longtime Taylor Swift collaborator drew a flurry of backlash on-line when photographs emerged exhibiting him popping in what seemed to be AirPods as Perry was performing a medley of her best hits.

Most of the feedback tried to loop Antonoff ― who has co-written and produced songs on a few of Swift’s largest albums, together with her most up-to-date, “The Tortured Poets Department” ― into the “feud” that has been rumored to exist between Perry and Swift for years. (By no means thoughts that the 2 ladies seemingly settled that alleged dispute a while in the past.)

“This guy is pathetic. Katy has never even acknowledged his existence…lol,” one individual wrote on X, previously Twitter.

Added one other: “That’s so disrespectful wtf just because you hate someone doesn’t mean you do that she doesn’t even know him…”

Various media retailers, together with the U.Okay.’s Every day Mail, picked up on the frenzy with articles blasting Antonoff’s “odd behavior” whereas Perry was onstage.

By Thursday, Antonoff responded to the hypothesis by clarifying that he was, in truth, sporting earplugs and never AirPods, as had been reported.

“i would like to tell you directly from me that i did in fact use earplugs the other night,” he wrote in a collection of posts on X. “they were blue ‘hearos’ brand and im mortified to admit that i’ve been using them for a long time as well as buying them in bulk.”

After declaring that he makes use of the earplugs on planes and whereas sleeping, the 11-time Grammy winner wrote cheekily: “i’m sorry to those i let down and today i will not being going to work and instead thinking about my earplug use and everyone that has been affected by it.”

“the band and i have decided to keep all dates as scheduled,” he added.

Although Antonoff, who’s married to actor Margaret Qualley, might need been capable of higher absorb Perry’s VMAs efficiency with the earplugs, he has seemingly criticized the “Teenage Dream” singer previously.

Talking to GQ in 2014, he in contrast Perry ― amongst different feminine artists ― unfavorably to Swift, who would go on to launch her pop crossover album, “1989,” later that 12 months.

“Taylor Swift is cool, because she’s the closest thing today that hearkens to Michael Jackson — to great, great pop music,” Antonoff mentioned on the time. “There’s a difference between her and [Lady] Gaga and Katy Perry and Lily Allen and all that. It all feels throwaway, comparatively.”