JoJo Siwa says she's not singer but artist/performer

[Teletubby 134,097]

Speaking on Call Her Daddy, JoJo said: "I will rarely, pretty much never, claim to be a singer. I will claim to be an artist or a performer but I know my vocal abilities and I also know my vocal abilities - what they are not. I'm very comfortable when it's my own stuff but other people's music, I don't do well singing."

"I was singing 'Traitor' by Olivia Rodrigo and she has a really high note in there. I was so far from hitting it. Not even close and then one day I kinda got close. I've been doing this for a long time and I'm finally close. It is not good yet." 
JoJo decided to show her followers her progress
"People took just that clip of me singing it and not doing it and my face turning bright red because I'm screaming trying to hit it and then they ran with just that" - JoJo said

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[Red 94,439]

I always thought being a singer that can’t sing is like being a math teacher that can’t do math

[PMM 2,972]

i know 

[bionic 41,778]

A surprisingly large amount of new pop singers are neither, its mad

[clownery 3,471]

The way I only read her name here, you guys are obsessed with this girl lmao 

[PunkTheFunk 123,469]

Oh, we know. 

[altern8version 510]

this is the 12th Jojo Siwa topic you've posted in the last month. girl what is happening 

[RAMROD 104,086]

Truly the Madonna of this generation. Only dances and lowkey sings  

[clownery 3,471]

Just now, altern8version said:

this is the 12th Jojo Siwa topic you've posted in the last month. girl what is happening 

 

 

[Red 94,439]

11 minutes ago, altern8version said:

this is the 12th Jojo Siwa topic you've posted in the last month. girl what is happening 

@Teletubby is a part of the paid Jojo Siwa smear campaign promoted by Lady Gaga because her rise is a threat 

 

[River 104,767]

Artist writes their music, not singing over a paid demo like you're J. "Jennifer Lopez" Lo

[Railing 2,274]

50 minutes ago, Red said:

I always thought being a singer that can’t sing is like being a math teacher that can’t do math

Why's there such a big expectation for singers to have impressive vocal ranges? If you want that, go to Broadway or an opera house. Not to someone's Spotify page where they're releasing their own music, which is an art form that isn't about vocal ability  I don't even wanna defend JoJo, this is just something that annoys me in stan culture in general

[VOLANTIS 16,287]

When I'm in the shower I am the singer. The artist. And the performer. So I get it JoJo. Tough world for girls like us.

[djBuffoon 11,994]

So there are circumstances in which she would claim she's a singer?

Girl, stop talking. And stop "singing".

[tylerjs 5,423]

17 minutes ago, Railing said:

Why's there such a big expectation for singers to have impressive vocal ranges? If you want that, go to Broadway or an opera house. Not to someone's Spotify page where they're releasing their own music, which is an art form that isn't about vocal ability  I don't even wanna defend JoJo, this is just something that annoys me in stan culture in general

I’m not sure the connection is being made here, though. While you obviously don’t have to be a Whitney or Boyle or whomever to be considered a singer, you definitely should be able to actually sing with a certain degree of ability that constitutes the basis of the art form. If I hand Jojo a mic and ask her to sing something, her first reaction should not be “oh I can’t do that, I don’t sing”. Like…but you are singing on your records? It’s kind of like saying you’re a painter, and I ask you to paint something and you go “well I can’t actually paint, it’s just performative”. 
 

my other issue is that even if she’s not a vocalist, that’s her prerogative of course, but to contribute nothing else to the art at all to compensate is downright disingenuous, ESPECIALLY when she’s going around Hollywood acting like she’s redefining artistry and music. You didn’t write a single word of lyrics, you self-admittedly cannot sing, and now you’re going around claiming to have “invented gay pop”, having a “Britney Spears Slave 4 U” moment, claiming to have redefined the industry in a way no one has before, and you’ve done literally not a single artistic thing to back up those claims. Gaga herself said it best: to make art is not enough, it has to have a perspective or else it’s nothing.