Let me just get this straight: I love social media. You can find me there a few times a day, but I also hate social media. Mainly for showing me a different side to the artists I love. A side I wish I didn’t know about.
There are pretty harmless irritations that I ‘suffer’ from, like bad selfies or the oversharing of personal opinions, thoughts or activities, but the worst is when they fight online. I know, it provides good entertainment for some, but it irritates me to find out how petty or arrogant some people can become.
This week there suddenly were a couple of cryptic messages from r&b singer Brandy. At first, it looked like they were directed to followers who were responding to a picture of her with Mariah Carey, but then a long message was posted directed at Songwriter TC. The two had collaborated a while back.
I follow Brandy on Instagram and TC on Twitter. Brandy’s long post really took me by surprise. Usually people just post a quote or something to refer to a personal situation, but even though her post was quite elaborate, it was just as vague as well. I had no idea what she was on about and the many “if it’s true that you are saying something about me”-references made it even more difficult for me to follow, so I unfollowed her altogether.
A vlogger on YouTube was a little quicker in understanding what was going on and explained that Brandy had been sending belittling messages to TC for a while and TC had made bits and pieces of her message public. To defend or clarify herself Brandy posted the full message, but that seemed to make matters worse.
Apparently, Brandy has been having strange outbursts targeted to peers for many years and the full post only showed how strange some of her reasoning is. Altogether, I really didn't want to know any of this stuff. Not about Brandy, not about TC. There was something nice about my illusion that these people have 'the life' and in my head, they were waivered from these kinds of things, but they just hit me with a reality I didn't want to know about: Things don't get anywhere better when you make it.
