On July 7, 2025, JoJo Siwa took the web abruptly as she previewed the quilt of Kim Carnes’ 1981 hit Bette Davis Eyes, sporting a curly bob and make-up that contrasted together with her common make-up and excessive ponytail.
She posted the identical video on Instagram with the caption:
“After performing this track dwell after which seeing the attractive response to it, I made a decision to go document a studio vocal…. I’m undecided if I ought to launch it on Spotify or not…. Would you need me to?!!!🤍 in case you would, I’m pondering perhaps finish of this week?”
Netizens rapidly took to X to react to JoJo’s cowl of Higher Davis Eyes, the place an X person hinted at using exterior instruments to change her voice—
“she seems like an 86 12 months outdated smoker” an X person commented.
“She’s actually overdoing the raspiness. She seems like she didn’t clear her throat earlier than recording and now that she doesn’t have high notch huge label producers doing her mixing, the autotune is insanely noticeable. To not point out this IS the monitor enjoying when she “sang it dwell”” one other X person talked about.
“the auto tune and she or he really thinks she sounds good she wouldn’t of posted that if she didn’t suppose she was good prefer it’s so dangerous 😭” an web person acknowledged.
In the meantime, the singer’s followers defended her and praised her cowl of the Kim Carnes track—
“by no means thought i might say this however jojo protecting bette davis eyes may really be a vibe,” an X person tweeted.
“Okay however this cowl goes tougher than anticipated?? JoJo could be onto one thing,” a netizen expressed.
“Undoubtedly surprising 😌. Curious to see if she brings one thing recent or simply leans into nostalgia both means, it is daring to the touch a traditional like this,” one other netizen remarked.
JoJo Siwa comes clear on antics that garnered backlash submit KARMA being “guided”
JoJo Siwa launched her single KARMA on April 5, 2024, after which she engaged in questionable antics that led to vital backlash. The monitor was imagined to be a rebranding for her, provided that it included lyrics suggesting she cheated on her girlfriend and visuals of her about to kiss three girls.
Throughout her look on the We Have to Discuss podcast in April 2025, JoJo Siwa confessed that the previous 12 months (2024) was the one time she was totally different, particularly the interval after KARMA was launched. She admitted to creating selections primarily based on “outdoors opinions” and doing what her boss mentioned.
“I had a little bit of a breakdown and I cried and I mentioned ‘Why am I pretending that I am ingesting alcohol and being loopy I am a great lady i am I am saying I am ingesting Fireball on stage nevertheless it’s apple juice.’ It has been guided. All the pieces after the day karma was launched was not me. I look again at my final 12 months of my life and I believe whoa it might be so totally different I might be in a means totally different place now,” JoJo Siwa shared.
JoJo Siwa additionally talked about her monitor Bulletproof, launched on Could 16, 2025, explaining that the track completely captured how she felt at that second. Describing how the monitor was totally different from her earlier tasks, the singer talked about:
“I am lastly with a track not singing about — I am joyful, I am optimistic, I am on high of the world. I really feel nice. It is not a track about that. It is a track concerning the reverse.”
JoJo Siwa made headlines by popping out as queer on season 24 of Celeb Massive Brother UK. The singer informed housemate Danny Beard that it was after coming into the Massive Brother home that she realized she was queer and never lesbian.
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