23 year-old singer/actress Kiely Williams must have got wind of all the negative feedback regarding her new music video for “Spectacular” because she released an official statement early Thursday morning, where she speaks on the controversial video and its message..
I am an actor and performer. I have been so since my first role in a television pilot at five years old. I played a character when I was a “Cheetah Girl.” I am playing a character in the music video for the song “Spectacular,” as I did in the “Cheetah Girl” movies. The fact is, that sometimes women get intoxicated and have unprotected sex. My video puts this issue front and center. It is absurd to infer or suggest that I am condoning this behavior. Are Lady Gaga and Beyonce advocating murder with the “Telephone” video? Of, course not. Was Rihanna encouraging suicide with “Russian Roulette?” No. Was Madonna suggesting that young unmarried girls get pregnant with “Papa Don’t Preach?” I don’t think so. Is Academy Award winner Monique a proponent of incest because of her portrayal of Mary in the movie “Precious.” Clearly, the answer is no. I wrote “Spectacular” and made the video to bring attention to a serious women’s health and safety issue. Don’t shoot the messenger.
-Kiely Williams
That’s great and all to put those issues front and center but at what event does she plan on performing this song?
Trick please…you committed career suicide with that mess and now youre trying to clean it up. Too late. Oh that’s right other than the cheetah girls you really didnt have that much of a career anyway. Boo….go sit down
@ Lisa
You’d be surprised where. Didn’t Rihanna just perform “Rude Boy” at the Kid’s Choice awards a couple of weeks ago?
Kiely on the other hand needs to be slapped for even thinking that video had a message. If it was a serious topic, why were u smiling and dancing shaking ur ass throughout it? Get outta here.
Whats the point of writing a song you cant relate to? Lady Gaga, Madonna, Rihanna arent even on the same level as her to even compare her song to their songs. Its obvious that there are subminial messages within Lady Gaga’s and/or Rihanna’s songs. Kiley song and video is just bad overall. Wtf. Sit down Kiely.
hahahaha… This is funny!
Lie …
maybe she meant for everything about the video and song to be UGLY… if that was the case, then well played. something about covering it in glitter and a disco beat that makes a little more disturbing. haha.
Rock on Kiely! Do you! Art never needs to be explained. If you don’t like it, ignore it and move on! It’s simple math.
I didnt see the video can someone tell me, is it a regular soft porn video that we see on TV with non singin ass attention hauz?
this child need to keep it cute, no need to state anythin who even pays attention? child have a seat.
lol, smart move her PR ppl wont playin, but she know damn well when she looked at that video, when it was complete she liked it, and she tryna get rid of the cheetah girls image, so she just oversexed the song…. and when artist write songz or sing songs they usually can identify with them. It dosent matter what she does she embarassed herself, maybe she should have titled the song “public service anouncement” since she want to bring awarness to an issue. Stop lying Kiely, we are not that dumb lol
Kiely please go sit down somewhere and stay there. The little career you had is now over. What type of message am I supposed to get from this..GirlBye
BWHAHAHAHAHA! Chile BOO! She thought she was gonna have a hit on her hands and got s*it on her hands instead. Since it backfired “it was a message”. Uhm can we saw PR nightmare & damage control. Oops too late, as it was too late when the song was written and the vid was shot.
*notes that most of the people she referred to are satanic and surely sending messages though*
taking all that into acount, the song is so bad it make me cringe. not because keily, madonna, janet, beyonce or lady gaga could not make this song good.
She put the issue front and center? No you didn’t idiot! What you did was put reckless behavior and now don’t want to take responsibility for the message which in essence is the behavior is acceptable as long as the sex is spectacular and acting like a stupid, totally irresponsible adult will sell records. Not cosigning on this one. You lost your mind and soul with the groupthink mentality that fun equates irresponsible behavior. Go sit your azz down and do a serious redo cause everything about this video and song was wrong on so many levels.
lmao kiely looks ugly in that pick maybe shes just showing her true colors somewhere right now natuari is laughing
Did you really think there was a positive message here? The answer, as you put it, NO! Had you ended it with a positive test result for STD’s, HIV/AIDS or rape charges, then that would shed a different light. But there was NO message sent except that you acted like an irresponsible whore, but enjoyed the sex while in a comotose state. Get real girl… you seriously missed the mark and this one and can’t go back.
Um nowhere in that vidoe did she acknowledge promiscuity is an issue, she more or less promoted it. If she wants to do sum hoe shit then she should own up to it and take the criticism. Do you. But don’t stunt like you’re confronting a “women’s issue” and you’re some advocate all of a sudden because you received criticism.
She tried to justify what she did and FAILED!
Dont understand what’s wrong with the industry nowadays.
All of them need help and the industry is only facilitating by paying for the garbage.
Nuh uh….Not buying it. The video glamorizes that it’s cool to have alcoholic blackout (and possibly unprotected) sex. What an AWFUL message to send young women. My only thought when watching this video was “Jeez! What a Skank!”….and bum-ass dude didn’t even give her cab fare home? She had to walk home. This vid’s a mess on many levels.
LOL, she is so deluded. “It is absurd to infer or suggest that I am condoning this behavior.” Hon, it is absurd to infer or suggest that you are NOT condoning it. By calling it “spectaculah” you are slanting it in a positive light. Duh!
LOL! You “made the video to bring attention to a serious women’s health and safety issue.” Hahaha what a joke! It wasn’t exactly a PSA and you certainly didn’t put a disclaimer at the beginning or end of the video discouraging young girls from participating in the activities you sang about and portrayed.
Just admit it was a desperate ploy that FAILED miserably and stop trying to insult the public’s intelligence. Twit.
LMAO, what a lame ass excuse Kiely. Positive message, my a**. Positive video would’ve had a S.E.X Lyfe Jennings, Runaway Love Ludacris, vibe.
That crap you call a music video had no meaning, message or lesson what so ever. “The sex was spectacular, he was hung like a stallion” is supposed to teach me shit? Girl GTFOH. She read all the negative feedback and is now trying to save face.
@7 what art are you talking about.. this broad need to sit her ass down. The video was tacky so is she!
I should’ve known she was going to come out with an activist statement. Bye girl, fly girl. If that was the case, she could’ve went a different way about bringing awareness to the situation. She knew what she was doing, and it’s the same thing that every other female artist has done.
LMAO. I know she is not now saying this “porno” was to bring an issue to the forefront of society. GTFOH! Kiely is a joke- harsh but the truth. Anyone after watching that video and now reading her statement will agree.
What is it with some people where they can never come out and say they were wrong when they know they are. People would respect them a lot more tut tu tut.
I never knew unprotected sex was funny- she’s smiling throughout the whole video.
The funniest part is how she is trying to throw Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Rihanna under the bus to deflect the negative attention. This girl needs a SERIOUS check LOL
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You go girl stick it to the haters. Alot of females on here are liars and hypocrites because i know for a fact that some of them have had one night stands before yet they act all high and mighty. This is real talk from Kiely and she is just shedding light on something that happens everyday. This song will be a wake up call to girls who live recklessly.
Good job Kiely i applaud you for your courage.
Wait a minute. Are we still being punked from yesterday? Tell Ashton enough already!!!
She’s actually speaking the truth. I didn’t find the message behind the song any more out there than any other song regarding sex, what bothered me about the song is it’s just a horrible song.
Kiely is not signed to a major label, so with that video she’s created the buzz she wanted. I can almost guarantee that a label will jump on her project now that people are knowing that she’s actually doing a solo record.
BULLSHIT!
A new show has just premiered:
When dumb songs make stupid ass videos!
Come on now girl…..It was a deep mistake and you know it!
She would have been better off saying that she was speaking from personal experience or something. Or just not doing this song at all. Her PR should be fired immediately.
This video has not brought awareness to the issue, It has tossed gliter and glam on it and try to sell it to young girls as acceptable. TLC don’t go chasing water falls was a video that made u think about your life choices this video has no voice and is just gross. What the hell did her parents say.
—-I cosign with #9 and #13. But I must admit, this vedio provides a cover to discuss
—-teen pregnancy, prostitution, drug/alcohol abuse, SDTs, perversion, vulgarity, bad
—-weaves, growing up, positions, one-night stands, relationships, gyrating, hygiene,
—-dreadlocks, drama queens, light-skinned people and the black women’s mentality.
what’s so wrong about a loose woman and a horny mutt of a guy getting it on…in your 20′s we have fun…and try our best to play it safe…just don’t dress this up for awareness and promote it as looseness…do we stone Ke$ha for being loose…nope we sing her song in the clubs…!
I can appreciate what her PR team tried to do, but it won’t work. We are not fools. Anyone with 2 working eyes can see what that video was about. She thought it was going to be a hit and instead she got a big slap in the face. She was blatantly promoting unprotected drunken one night stands and now she wants to put a spin on it. Hey Kiely, go see if Wal-Mart is hiring, I think you’ll be “acting” like a cashier from now on. Go “perform” up and down the aisles. SMH…
I agree with Real Talk they want to act like they don’t know what she is talking about. It’s just a video depicting what a lot of chicks do everyday without any concious. Sad truth is that they will do it again tomorrow with another guy.
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I PERSONALLY THINK THIS WAS A PUBLICITY STUNT/AIM FOR ATTENTION GONE HORRIBLY WRONG, AND NOW SHE’S DESPERATELY TURNING TO DAMAGE CONTROL,”HIDDEN POSITIVE MESSAGES”, AND COMPARISONS TO OTHER, LESS BLATANT DISPLAYS OF ARTISTRY TO COVER UP POOR JUDGEMENT.
SHE CLAIMS THAT HER HIDDEN MESSAGE WAS THE IDEA BEHIND THE VIDEO ALL ALONG. LOL
WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, THE CHILDREN WATCHING THE VIDEO DON’T UNDERSTAND THE “HIDDEN MEANING” BEHIND THIS MESS AND CAN’T DETERMINE WHAT’S TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY AND WHAT’S TO BE TAKEN METAPHORICALLY.
THE VIDEO LOOKS LIKE SHE WAS MAKING A PARODY AIMED TOWARD SOMEONE! LIKE IT CAME STRAIGHT FROM MAD TV. AND THAT’S SAD.
C’mon! any one with the sense God gave a goose can tell this is just clean up after the video crashed and burned w/ pretty much everyone who has seen it. If she we’re simply bringing “attention to a serious women’s health and safety issue” and “am not condoning this behavior,” then why was the sex “spectacular” and why would she say “Even though I’m not sure of his name, He could get it again if he wanted
Cause the sex was spectacular?” notice i’m quoting this chick over and over, her own hypocritical words. Bish must think we’re all lil kids who wouldn’t put 2 and 2 together…
……..The damn song is called “SPECTACULAR”….how is she trying to bring
………awareness. Maybe if the title was called “Horrible Nite I Regret” or
………”Oh My GOD, I Hope I Don’t Have AIDS”, then maybe I’d buy her explaination
—–The girl makes an excellent point, even though she was using misdirection. This
—–is a technique that many entertainers that seek attention through shock value
—–use. The “I was highlighting a societal issue.”, plea lol. Her video was no more
—–whorish than anything else that these females are doing, just more overt.
…….And to bring up the other artist, well that alone shows her maturity level.
all i have to say was that video was trash and stupid it was a JOKe
only watched 10 secs
Yeah. yeah, yeah…
Hmmm not condoning it but you keep singing the sex was spectacular and you would do it again, rigghhhttt
Excuse me but i completely disagree she’s not bringing awareness to the situation she’s glorifying it “the sex was spectacular”? what about that phrase makes me not wanna go out there and do exactly what she portrayed on the video. Some people are so ignorant but i thought she was smarter…yeah shes saying that awareness should be brought to it now cause people are calling her out and her tossing the blame on people like beyonce and monique is childish. Let them speak and defend themselves YOU speak for the stupidity that YOU put out there in the world!
I get what she’s saying, but how does she explain dancing and writhing on the ground? What subversive message is she trying to convey there?
Try Again
Bitch, please! That’s all I have to say… and that her music is a piece of crap and she’s better than Miley Cyrus
DONT BUY HER STATEMENT PEOPLE…SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WAS DOING..IF SHE WAS TRYING TO PUT OUT A MESSAGE THEN PUT A DISCLAIMER BEFORE THE VIDEO..DONT SAY THAT SH1T AFTER THE FACT..SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS COMING HARD AND TRIED TO TOP RIHANNA BUT SHE IS LOOKING REAL PATHETIC RIGHT ABOUT NOW…..AND KIELY STOP DROPPIN NAMES OF SUPERSTARS..WE DONT KNOWN ALL OF THOSE ENTERTAINERS LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW THEY HAVE TO KEEP UP AN IMAGE..YOU ARE A NEW SOLO ACT…YOU NEED TO COME CORRECT STRAIGHT OUT THE GATE..YOU DONT HAVE THE PRIVELDGE TO BE PROVACTIVE AT THIS STAGE..AND THE PEOPLE ARE OVER THIS OVERSEXED SHI1TTY AS MUSIC INDUSTRY……EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET A CLUE!!
im sorry say what you want but she has a point.
i tihnk that its rubbing a lot of women the wrong way cuz she just called you all out on your BS
“call me a slut but I was on drugs” bitch really? “his sex was spectacular” great advocacy for the kids Keil..
I AM IMPRESSED WITH THIS COMEBACK STATEMENT.
STILL AN EPIC #FAIL THOUGH.
#12 said all that needs to be said about this
Two words – DAMAGE CONTROL!!!!
….And two more words just came to mind – CAREER SUICIDE!!!
I didn’t even know that there was a video out for this b**ch until I read this post. I then went on youtube and looked up the video and guess what, there was a warning page before the video that you had to click to approve being 18+ and the comments were disabled! LOL. WTF is wrong with her? Anyone who likes this video is a perv, man or female. It was trashy, nasty, stank, and disgusting! I can’t stand Lady Gaga, she’s very slutty and dirty too, but at least she tries to glamorizes her sex with extravagant costumes and high quality film LOL.
I’m really stick and tired of these celebs or people who are in the industry, covering up their bad decisions. I never liked her or Adrienne when they were in 3LW because they were minors trying to act sexy, cuss, and be “grown.” Every single word of this song would have to be edited and the video wouldn’t even be allowed to be shown on TV! Disney is evil and only cares about the money, not the children. Why is the channel so damn hypercritical? The adults who act on there are only there for a paycheck and try to act all innocent and good! I couldn’t believe Disney would allow two members from 3LW to act on the channel, everybody should’ve known that they were going to SEX it up after their contract was finished!
OK YOUR 15MIN OF “FAME” IS OVER!!!!!! NOBODY CARES!………………….
ON TO THE NEXT IDIOT WHO WANTS SOME ATTENTION SO WE CAN MAKE FUN OF THEM…..
lol
Child please, you already hoed yourself out and theres no turning back. Sit yo flop ass down.
She cant be serious…since when did singing about drunken unprotected sex with a stranger deter people from engaging in it? She’s glorifying the practice, and this lil response is an even hotter mess than the video…dont try to clean up your bullshit now…as many times as Ive seen this chick doing the same shit in real life…pull it together boo…
—-How many women go out at night to find a man who’ll buy them drinks?
—-”Imma wear my red hot pants, get my “drink on” and find me a man tonight.”
—-”Ohhhh girl, he so fine…ain’t he?” “Plus, he bought me two $5.00 drinks!”
—-”He’s not a total stranger.” “I’ve danced & drink with him before here at the club.”
—-”His name is “Stretch” and I’ll catch a ride home with him.” (that’s not his name)
—-On the phone with BFF the next day: “Girl, he broke me off. I was drunk as hell.”
—-”It was “SPECTACULAR” or “Off the Hook” or “The Best I Ever Had.” (what’s the
—-difference?) It’s like Gabrielle Union at the beauty shop in the movie “Deliver us
—-from Eva.” She said: “And then we went back to my place… and had a nice
—-respectable evening. And then we burned a hole in the floor! …” “Cause I’m a big
—-ho. If you really wanna make it up to me, tell me a joke. No. I’m not a good joke
—-teller…” Then LL Cool J smiled was like Janet Jackson in the movie “Why did I get
—-Married, Too” when she met the Rock soon after driving her husband to death. It’s
—-all just a big “Spectacular” joke.
She was having fun in the video and nowhere in the song’s lyrics did I hear anything about remorse, like…oh what have I done…this and that ish.
She was bragging in the song about receiving some spectacular sex without a condom and how she would it do it again if she met her one night stand again. Never heard or sensed any signs of remorse in the song so it’s a FAIL!
And that explanation she’s giving was well written months in advance just waiting for that ish to hit the fan for her to drop it. Nobody is shocked about this. We are just disgusted by this cheap publicity stunt.
Publicity hungry whore!!!