Cee Lo Green opened for Rihanna at Minneapolis’ Target Center last night, and no representatives from Playground Misnomer (either of us) were in attendance. Chalk it up to prohibitively expensive ticket prices or the fact that Cee Lo’s sort of an off-putting, creepy, turtle-monster man. With sex.
Who was there was Gimme Noise‘s Andrea Swensson, who in a review this morning expressed some distaste for Cee Lo’s overt sexual advances toward… well, just about everyone. And that’s fine — I mean, he’s a celebrity, and sort of foul in a grossly sexual way, but that’s just who he is. I’m sure he understands that there are people, such as Swensson, on whom his magic has no effect.
But Cee Lo’s not the type to let his “masculinity” fall on deaf ears (or any other unresponsive body part, really) without an explanation. Apparently he took to Twitter to reply to the review, writing, “@gimme_noise I respect your criticism but be fair! People enjoyed last night!I’m guessing ur gay?and my masculinity offended u?well f—k U!” (Self-censoring and all unchanged). So yeah.
Anyway, righteous outrage is spreading both on Twitter and in comments in Swensson’s article about the incident. I think most would agree that whatever Cee Lo’s dripping with isn’t quite masculinity, but more likely ignorance and a lack of respect for both the homosexual community and honest criticism. And sweat. Lots of sweat.
UPDATE (June 17 9:13 p.m.) – The above link doesn’t seem to be working anymore… Appearances would suggest that Cee Lo deleted all his tweets from today. The account is still active: @CeeLoGreen. No official statement from Cee Lo yet, though we imagine it will be something along the lines of “F*** you!”
UPDATE (June 17, 9:42 p.m.) – Turns out he did in fact delete the tweets, as City Pages reports, but not before claiming that if he knew the blogger was a woman he would have hit on her and saying “I’m not tweeting again…goodbye” — which he promptly deleted. He also issued what we can only assume was an attempt at an apology, saying, “Apologies gay community! what was homophobic about that? I said I was guessing he [was] gay which is fine but its nice to [know] what u think of me”. It appears he still doesn’t realize the writer was in fact a woman. So what to take from his “apology”: He’s not sorry for what he said, but sorry that we’re too stupid to realize that what he said was not actually homophobic. Oh, and he’s disappointed in us and offended that we made a big deal out of this. For shame, rational public. For shame.
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