I truly didn’t feel Lauren was trying to “blame” anyone. It felt to me she was more so explaining how everything felt contextually to her. Lauren was terrified of herself and her feelings. She was in a lot of intense denial which many of us can relate to. And all of this was magnified by being watched 24/7. I don’t think she “flirted” with C in public. No more than she “flirted” with Normani. She’s an affectionate person. If she had a crush, she wasn’t ready for the world to know.
Look, I love Lauren, but she literally went out of her way, to put DIRECT BLAME on her fans and especially Camren shippers. It became “our” fault she couldn’t be herself. “We” made her feel uncomfortable. “We”, and ‘our art”, made her feel like a “predator”. “We” became the reason for everything going wrong in her life. “We”, her “invasive fans” were the ultimate reason for her being “outed”. If her “invasive fans” hadn’t found the picture, then Hilton wouldn’t have seen it and “outed” her. She said Hilton “outed” her, but “we” got the ultimate blame for it. (even though she was planning on coming out anyway)
I’m just going to say it, and I’m not going to sugar coat it...Lauren hates fame, and she blames us for it. She always has. She NEEDS US, but has a problem with US, at the same time. She wants her cake, and eat it too...but she don’t want to deal with the consequences of getting what she wants.
Lauren just wants to make music. She just wants her fans to listen to her music, stream her music, and buy her music, and that’s it. She don’t want her fans to think about anything else, other than her music. She don’t want to play the game, but she wants to be successful. She can’t be successful, if she doesn’t play the damn game. Instead of blaming the Industry tactics for gaining their artists success, she blames us, more. Why? Because WE are the ones who have to make a CONNECTION with her, to make her a success...or not. It’s a CONTROL thing. She can’t CONTROL her fans, and she hates it.
Lauren finds herself in one hell of a conundrum. She wanted to come out, but now that she has, she wishes she’d stayed in the fucking glass closet. She told us why, in that podcast. She wanted to be her authentic self, but now, she finds herself pigeonholed. She said her sexuality is the only thing people want to talk about, and book her for. That’s why she was booked for that particular podcast, to discuss her sexuality and Latinx Pride. It had a definite purpose and goal, but she was still there because she’s an out “queer”.
Lauren’s music hasn’t been garnering media attention, so she has to do shit, she don’t want to do, to garner that attention She hates it...and she blames US for it. WE are to blame for her coming out, because now she wishes she hadn’t. WE are the reason she’s pigeonholed, and instead of blaming herself for wanting to come out, she blames us for only caring about her sexuality. It’s not true. WE care about her music, her mind, and her art, but we CONNECT with her, because she’s one of US.
That is why, artists who are in a glass closet, stay in the glass closet. Especially female artists. Because they find themselves tied to their sexuality, and pigeonholed to the LGBTQ+ Community as their target audience. WE are a large audience, but we can’t create successful hits, alone. If we could, we wouldn’t be getting BLAMED for a damn thing. We would be appreciated, by artists and Industry alike. They need us to consume their music. They need us to produce and add to numbers. But, we aren’t a big enough target audience to produce the numbers needed for Industry success....And we can’t be blamed for that!!!




















