@hamdod69@LiverpoolLnd Wrong. Making that kind of movement that Gabriel did is a red card literally 100% of the time. Contact doesn’t matter. It’s always been given as a straight red ever since VAR started. No matter who did what first or whatever
A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.
For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.
Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.
Here's where it gets interesting.
In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.
Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.
Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.
Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.
He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.
Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.
They're both wrong. It was a receipt.
He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.
The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.
@tillinfinityxx@PopHubOfficial They probably have a ton of staff members and usually some type of camera surveillance that backs it all up. The fact that the hotel back the story against Chappell is saying something. But stay delusional i guess
Catherine Harding, the mother of the girl who was allegedly berated by a security guard after sneaking a peak at Chappell Roan during breakfast at a São Paulo hotel, has now shared her side of the incident.
"I know that Chappell has responded saying that it wasn't her security and that she didn't do it. So, 100%, this security guard was not a security guard of the hotel. That's what I can say. He looks after artists. I don't know if it was her personal security guard, but he was with her. So that's all I know.
"Did she send him to do it? Again, I don't know. Look, I would like to hope not, but at the same time, I think that you have a responsibility when you are a celebrity to make sure, I guess, that the people that work for you and that act on your behalf are acting on your behalf. So, would he do that if he didn't have her authority to do so? I don't know if he does; then obviously that's a big problem because then he's representing her in a way that she doesn't want to be represented. So I think that's really important for her to notice and realize that's not correct...
"Literally, we were staying in the same hotel. we were at breakfast. And we noticed a girl walk past with long red hair, very curly. And I said to my daughter, 'Oh, do you think that's Chappell Roan?' and she looked and she said, 'Oh my God, Mum, do you think it's her?' And so she said, 'I'm gonna go and have a look outside,' and she was sat just outside in the garden area which we were also free to go into; the door was open.
"And so I went back to the table to sit and eat, and my daughter walked through the door. She didn't have her phone, she didn't try to take a picture, she didn't approach her. She literally didn't do anything; she just looked at her and smiled, and she came back and she actually said to me, 'Mum, I don't know if it's her.' Because obviously she looks like—you know, with her costumes and everything—she looks a little bit different. So my daughter said, 'Oh my gosh, I'm not—I'm not sure if it was her. I think it was her, Mum. It really, really looks like her, but I don't know; maybe it's her sister.' She said, 'Maybe it's her sister,' and I said, 'Oh, I don't know, darling,' and that was it. We continued our breakfast.
"From that, then came the security guard who, as I said—as my husband said—had a very aggressive tone. And I feel like was—if she did not send him... I mean, even if she did send him or she didn't send him, I don't know. For me, I feel like it really overstepped a boundary because he is quite an intimidating—he is very large. So for him to come over to a table with just a woman and her daughter eating breakfast to kind of like berate and scold us and say that he was going to complain, and tell me that I should be teaching my daughter to be better and that she's badly educated and we should respect people's privacy and we should not harass people and all of these other things.
"And I did try and explain to him the situation—that she's a child and she was just very excited to see an artist and singer that she admires—and can he not understand that was all she was doing? I explained to him also that my husband is also very well-known and that we're very—she's very used to being around people that are well-known and she would never cross someone's boundaries or overstep a mark. She very much knows the limits; not to ever, you know, be rude or make anyone feel... she understands; she understands very well.
"And I tried to explain this to him, and then he just kept saying, 'Well, if you—if—if that's the case, then you should know better. You should know how it is. You should know how it is, so you should teach your—you should teach her to be better. You shouldn't allow her to be like this.' And I was—I was shocked. And I did actually say to him at the time, I said, 'Well, if this is the case that she doesn't even want people to look at her, she is very welcome to eat breakfast in her room because this here is a public area and I am a paying guest as well as her. So if I want to walk past someone's table and look at them, I have every right to do so. I am not approaching her. I'm not doing anything to make her feel intimidated or nothing—like this 11-year-old child.' ...
"We came all the way to Sao Paulo to watch the show. It was my daughter's birthday present; she actually asked for tickets to come for her birthday present, which is a little bit ruined because we didn't go to the show last night, but it's how it is. But yeah. Anyways, it's how it is. We'll say no more on it. That's it. I hope that maybe if it wasn't her that she learns to not allow the people that work for her to treat people like this."
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@_DrTobi @FabrizioRomano Last year they had a banner that said stop crying. This year he scores and makes a crying celebration. How is that wrong and unprofessional? Stop attacking him for literally everything he does