blocked Brazilian singer Anita President Jair Bolsonaro About her account on “Twitter” following he made sarcastic comments on the colors of the national flag that were adorned with it during a show in Coachella Festival in California.
In response to a tweet from the president, the artist wrote, “Go, dude, and find something else to have fun with,” before blocking his account and thus preventing him from responding to her once more.
Unrelenting in criticizing the far-right president, Anita revealed that she “immediately blocked him so that the custodians of his account might not access my accounts to create an uproar on the Internet.”
The singer had written on Twitter following A show in which she wore a dress in the colors of her country’s flag Green, yellow and blue: “The flag of Brazil, with all its colors, is for all Brazilians. It represents the whole of Brazil. No one can be unique in explaining the colors of our country’s flag.”
“I agree with Anita,” Bolsonaro, a candidate for a second presidential term, quickly replied in October, attaching his tweet with several emojis and the flag of Brazil, which angered the artist. “Every artist who criticizes the president becomes a mockery of him,” Anita said, stressing that “our strategy is to talk regarding him as little as possible.”
I immediately put a block on it so that his admins don’t keep using my social media to gain buzz on the internet
— Anitta (@Anitta) April 16, 2022
In a recent statement to AFP, the singer revealed: “It is a position that I take as a citizen and as an artist. I will continue in this vein, whoever the ruling authority is. In the current situation, Brazil needs many changes, the first of which is a change of government.”
The 29-year-old artist has 16.7 million followers on Twitter, 17.9 million on Tik Tok and 61.5 million on Instagram.
Her song “Envolver”, which was released in November, has been listened to more than 71 million times on Spotify and has been the most popular hit.
(AFP)
