Katie Noel responds to backlash over viral country song \u2018Southern\u2019 YouTube: Katie NoelMusic artist and influencer Katie Noel is hitting back at criticism of her country song, \u2018Southern,\u2019 which some commenters are calling \u201cworse than Friday.\u201d 23-year-old Katie Noel is a music artist and influencer, boasting over five million likes on TikTok and garnering over 300,000 followers on Instagram. While the singer\u2019s discography features two albums of peppy pop-country songs, her latest single is coming under fire from listeners just five days after being released. On February 17, Noel dropped her newest song, \u2018Southern.\u2019 The track itself is similar to Blake Shelton\u2019s \u2018Boys \u2018Round Here,\u2019 with the singer celebrating the country lifestyle in a rap-style before launching into a melody. Despite other songs like it existing in pop culture, viewers are expressing their displeasure with \u2018Southern,\u2019 specifically, with many comparing it to Rebecca Black\u2019s \u2018Friday\u2019 from 11 years ago. \u201cWe are still recovering from Friday by Rebecca Black and you do this to us,\u201d one user wrote. \u201cAyooooo, don\u2019t release this,\u201d another begged. \u201cIs this an SNL skit?\u201d another asked. Noel\u2019s clip advertising the music video for her song has racked up over 1.6 million views on TikTok as a result of the criticism. That\u2019s not all; it\u2019s even gone viral on Twitter, with platforms like Barstool and even comedian Theo Von blasting the track to the tune of millions of views \u2014 but Noel knows how to hang with the best of them. Katie Noel hits back at criticism over viral \u2018Southern\u2019 video The singer responded to the backlash against her song in a follow-up video on February 22, where she conducted a mock news segment about the situation using a spray bottle as a microphone. \u201cThis is tasteless b*tch reporting live from Southern Kentucky,\u201d she joked. \u201cOvernight sensation Katie Noel has [gone] viral with her song, \u2018Southern.\u2019 And we ask ourselves: \u2018What the actual f*ck is that?’\u201d She then asked \u2018Barstool\u2019 how they felt about the situation before panning over to an actual barstool, then launched into an imitation of Whiskey Riff\u2019s Brady Cox and Theo Von. It looks like Noel\u2019s response video is getting much the same response as her song, but it\u2019s clear that she\u2019s willing to handle the criticism \u2014 and even throw a little back at her critics, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Katie Noel responds to backlash over viral country song \u2018Southern\u2019 YouTube: Katie NoelMusic artist and influencer Katie Noel is hitting back at criticism of her country song, \u2018Southern,\u2019 which some commenters are calling \u201cworse than Friday.\u201d 23-year-old Katie Noel is a music artist and influencer, boasting over five million likes on TikTok and garnering over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}