Aussie muso Troye Sivan has publicly condemned rapper Eminem‘s use of a homophobic slur on his new album, Kamikaze.
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“I don’t think there’s ever really a reason,” Troye told Variety on Saturday. “I just feel like some words are not meant for everyone, or for anyone. It’s not that hard to respect that, so I just hope that people do.”
The publication then asked Sivan if he’d ever be able to forgive the 45-year-old rapper and his peers who have used homophobic slurs. Troye responded that forgiveness is only possible if they recognise that their use of the word was unacceptable and refrain from using it again in future music.
“I would like to believe that people can grow and change,” he said. “I think that repeated behaviour is something that should be taken really seriously…I would love to believe that if the person showed enough genuine remorse and understanding of how they’ve hurt people and actively made strides to correct that — I would like to believe I can be fine with that person.”
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.@TroyeSivan says Eminem’s use of a homophobic slur on #Kamikaze is inexcusable (Watch) pic.twitter.com/MTJwIPcx0d
— Variety (@Variety) September 16, 2018
Eminem recently addressed the backlash that resulted from the release of his album.
“I think the word that I called him on that song was one of the things where I felt like this might be too far,” he said in an interview with Sway. “Because in my quest to hurt him, I realise that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it….It was one of the things that I kept going back to and going ‘I don’t feel right with this.’”
