People have been sharing their opinions about the cancelled Chris Brown Michael Jackson tribute all day, but things really went left when Ciara shared that she was cancelled too.
According to her caption on social media, Ciara was going to be part of the Chris Brown 40th Thriller Anniversary performance and she took the opportunity to not only give Chris his flowers but share part of their rehearsal.
She captioned her video by saying:
MJ thank you for the inspiration you’ve given us all! Thriller 40th Anniversary. @ChrisBrownOfficial you’re a rare breed of this generation. Always fun to rock with you ??
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Kelly Rowland hopped in the comments saying:
You are a BAAAAAAADDDMUTHAFWUCKA!!! Do you hear me?!?!!!! BAD!!! Love you and so incredibly proud of you!
We have since found out why the performance was cancelled.
@puckdotnews Matthew Belloni, says he knows the reason why and he’s the one who is somewhat behind the decision.
Chris and the award show’s producers had been working on the tribute for weeks.The producers wanted Chris to perform at the awards to give him an opportunity to showcase his talents after Chris felt he had been “shadow-banned” from Hollywood since the #MeToo movement.
Belloni claims that when he caught wind of Chris Brown’s performance, he immediately contacted the higher ups at Disney and ABC about the “optics” of the performance.
He says that the “prospect of a convicted domestic abuser feting an alleged child molester” on a Disney network wasn’t the best idea.
The higher-ups didn’t even know about Chris’ performance until Belloni called and told them.
Once the executives found out about the performance, they immediately told the producers to cut the tribute as a whole.
The producers were reportedly furious at the decision to axe the performance because they knew the backlash they would receive, but after calls with multiple executives through the company they decided that Chris could still perform, but he couldn’t do the tribute because it would be too “radioactive”.
They tried to come up with an alternative plan, but Chris said it’s all or nothing for him— either he does the performance he planned on doing or he won’t perform at all. So, he didn’t perform and posted the rehearsal footage on his Instagram.
Twitter reaction:
Somebody gone have to pay for robbing us from seeing Chris Brown and Ciara dance together again. pic.twitter.com/ohmelq5vH8
— CZ ? (@Cbledsoe29_) November 21, 2022
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I can’t believe we were robbed of a Ciara and Chris Brown performance pic.twitter.com/V4JMN4U1Kc
— Titans 7-3 ⁶? (@_ovohb) November 21, 2022
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The fact that Ciara was just talking about wanting to work with Chris Brown again last month and they were gonna surprise us with again another iconic performance years later at this years AMAs and they robbed us of that?!!?!? I’m SICK pic.twitter.com/JgPiA5dVNS
— Emm✨ (@EmasinM) November 21, 2022
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I’m pissed even more no way we had to miss out on this omfggg they would’ve bodied asf??? COUNT YOUR FUCKING DAYS AMAS #ciara #ChrisBrown pic.twitter.com/brcKxiodXP
— NeeQua (@niquatingz) November 21, 2022
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My jaw is to the floor. The world has been begging for another Ciara & Chris Brown moment on stage and we FINALLY WERE GOING TO GET IT AND IT WAS ROBBED AWAY????? pic.twitter.com/PbAwFt6TML
— bubbalicious?? (@JustBiancaax) November 21, 2022
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My jaw is to the floor. The world has been begging for another Ciara & Chris Brown moment on stage and we FINALLY WERE GOING TO GET IT AND IT WAS ROBBED AWAY????? pic.twitter.com/PbAwFt6TML
— bubbalicious?? (@JustBiancaax) November 21, 2022
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No because imagine the costumes Ciara and Chris side by side doing the Scream choreography we been begging for something like this to happen FOR YEARS we dreamed it, we imagined it so many times and the fact that we were close only for it to be snatched away FUCKING HURTS pic.twitter.com/KsOsFxE2MY
— Ignore me. (@theywasstalkin) November 21, 2022
