Madison Beer apologizes after controversy over her favorite book American musician and social media star Madison Beer has apologized for \u201cromanticizing\u201d a controversial book that depicts a relationship between a middle-aged man and a 12-year-old girl. During an Instagram Live session on June 16, Beer was asked what her favorite book was, and she revealed that it was Vladimir Nabokov\u2019s Lolita, first published in 1955 to much criticism due to its themes and suggestive motifs. While it has come to be considered somewhat of an academic classic, many people obviously took offense to the star saying that she \u201cromanticizes the book,\u201d defending it in a series of now-deleted tweets. In the ensuing drama, Madison Beer herself was trending on Twitter, including the hashtag #MadisonBeerIsOverParty, which seems to have become a common hashtag for stars that social media users wish to \u2018cancel.\u2019 After a while, though, Madison appeared to see error in what she had said and how she had spoken about Lolita, and came out with an apology. After revealing her favorite book, a fan responded saying \u201cplease tell me you don\u2019t romanticize Lolita,\u201d to which Beer said \u201cI definitely do, but we\u2019re not going to talk about that.\u201d thread of Madison Beer\u2019s tweets tonight of her defending herself saying she romanticizes a book about pedophilia since she\u2019s deleted the tweets pic.twitter.com\/1cXS66o5yl \u2014 des \u30df\u2606 (@hauntediivy) June 16, 2020 In a series of now-deleted tweets (which can be seen in the Twitter thread above), Beer confirmed that she has always loved Lolita because it\u2019s so controversial, telling an important story from a different point of view, adding that it\u2019s \u201cjust a book.\u201d This, though, didn\u2019t seem to impress some people, who demanded Madison realize why \u201cromanticizing\u201d Lolita isn\u2019t acceptable. By the evening of June 16, Madison released a statement on Twitter saying that she was \u201ctoo flippant\u201d with her responses during the Instagram Live session, saying that she should revisit Lolita to \u201cread it through a new lens.\u201d While some still weren\u2019t satisfied with her apology, many fans thanked her for realizing why they felt what she said was wrong. Madison may think twice before responding to such questions in the future, even for something as simple as her favorite book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Madison Beer apologizes after controversy over her favorite book American musician and social media star Madison Beer has apologized for \u201cromanticizing\u201d a controversial book that depicts a relationship between a middle-aged man and a 12-year-old girl. During an Instagram Live session on June 16, Beer was asked what her favorite book was, and she revealed […]<\/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-54719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54719","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=54719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}