Selena Gomez tried to come to the defense of her best friend yesterday.
But she failed in pretty spectacular fashion.
Gomez, of course, is extremely close with Taylor Swift.
And Swift is having, like, the worst week in celebrity history, culminating early yesterday when Kim Kardashian released Snapchat videos of Kanye West speaking to her on the phone.
The topic of the call is Kanye’s song, “Famous,” and the references he makes about Swift at various points within the single.
Soon after the song went viral, Swift pleaded innocent, angry and confused, saying she was irate that Kanye would diss her in such a manner.
(For example, West refers to Taylor as a “bitch” in the song and says he made her “famous.”)
Not long after the Internet nearly exploded due to a beef between the world’s biggest pop star and world’s biggest reality star, Selena spoke out.
“There are more important things to talk about…” the artist Tweeted. “Why can’t people use their voice for something that fucking matters?”
Gomez isn’t wrong.
Of course there are more important things we can discuss than Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
But people are capable of talking about more than one thing at once… plus, come on now.
This is a very silly response to a celebrity gossip flap, especially when Selena herself appears on magazine covers and gives interviews in which she talks about such pressing world topics as her music and her relationship with Justin Bieber.
As many critics on Twitter pointed out: when was the last time Selena brought up these “important things” online?
“Good question! Why haven’t you or Taylor not said a thing about #BlackLivesMatter or police brutality?” one fan responded.
Gomez slammed the follower by replying as follows:
“Oh lol so that means if I hashtag something I save lives? No, I could give two f—s about ‘sides.’ You don’t know what I do.”
Again, that’s fair. Gomez may do some very important charity work away from the computer.
But the subject here is what people write about on social media and Gomez should have seen this backlash coming.
“I love you but how about you use it as well to talk about what matters? you haven’t spoke up about a lot of things,” another follower wrote.
Gomez is the most popular user on all of Instagram.
She doesn’t have to use this platform to speak on important subject matters.
But she can’t tell other people to do so just because she’s unhappy with the way they’re insulting her close friend.
We admire Gomez for standing by Swift in her time of need; she just could have done it in less hypocritical fashion.