Jojo Siwa, a former contestant on Dance Mothers, is a reputation you may or might not have buried deep in your reminiscence. That’s, till the 20-year-old just lately exploded again into public consciousness. However precisely who’s Jojo Siwa?

Why is JoJo Siwa well-known?

Again in 2015, rising to prominence on the American actuality tv present, Jojo was a cute 12-year-old who appeared alongside her mom, Jessalynn Siwa, rating within the high 5 contestants regardless of being the youngest on the season. A born performer, she later launched a singing profession with the assistance of YouTube.

What’s JoJo Siwa doing now?

However now she’s showing in a really totally different guise, present process a public picture overhaul. All of it started a number of months in the past, in October final 12 months, when Jojo jumped on stage at a G Flip live performance, and commenced gyrating within the air. The footage went viral on TikTok, with customers commenting on the drastic new look: ‘What occurred to ur rainbows and cupcakes?’ [sic], learn one remark.

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A visible point of interest of this rebrand is the discharge of her new single, ‘Karma’. All eyes are on the music video, which has obtained over 18 million views (on the time of writing) on YouTube. The undeniably catchy, poppy tune options the mom of all transformations: Siwa in black and white face paint, with a punky, spiked-up mohawk coiffure. It is an outfit Siwa donned in actual life as she walked the purple carpet on the iHeartRadio Music Awards earlier this month.

There’s additionally a scene on a ship the place Siwa seems to pay homage to her Dance Mothers previous, carrying an outfit of white, sequinned shorts and a bralette set throughout a scene on a ship, earlier than diving into the water – a visible symbolism of her change of picture? You betcha!

The previous youngster star identifies as LGBT and shared her popping out story with Leisure Every day again in 2021. She has been vocal about her sexuality, carrying a ‘GAYEST PERSON ALIVE’ T-shirt for her G Flip stage look.

Accordingly, within the music video for ‘Karma’, she dances sensually after which simulates intercourse with a girl who poses as her love curiosity. Nevertheless, she has bought in an unintended web spat after claiming in an interview with Billboard that she “began a brand new style of music…known as homosexual pop”. Cue a refined side-eye from the band Tegan and Sara – an identical twins who’re each homosexual and have been energetic on the music scene since 1995.