Due to her recent music video and an associated Instagram post, Billie Eilish has been accused of queerbaiting this week.
The vocalist of “Ocean Eyes” was spotted with actor Matthew Tyler Vorce. The two are supposedly dating, prompting fans to speculate about the star’s sexuality following an Instagram post in which she appeared to come out as bisexual or lesbian.
The 19-year-old frolics with a bunch of girls at a sleepover party in a new music video for the tune “Lost Cause.”
The film’s alleged queerbaiting drew backlash, which was worsened by an Instagram post of behind-the-scenes photos from the video production with the message “I adore females.”
Queerbaiting is a phrase used by LGBTQ+ news site Pink News to describe authors, writers, or showrunners seeking to attract an LGBTQIA+ audience by purposefully hinting at same-sex relationships between characters that are never verified or depicted.
The word is being used in Eilish’s new music video and Instagram post, despite the fact that it is normally used in the context of film and television.
It basically refers to when producers try to appeal to the LGBTQIA+ community without having to truly depict them in their work.
Due to a dearth of real LGBTQ+ representation in various fields of the media, this may be damaging.
The advocacy group GLAAD highlights in its annual Where We Are on TV Report for 2020: “This season, 70 (9.1%) of the 773 series regular characters expected to appear on broadcast scripted primetime television are LGBTQ. This is the first season since the 2013-14 report that there has been a reduction from the prior year’s record-high proportion of 10.2 percent.”
Source:news week
