Selena Gomez has divided people after she revealed that she was watching a basketball game on her phone while at Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter show at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Sunday.
The star announced her attendance at the Cowboy Carter show by sharing a photo of herself in a merch cowboy hat and writing: “To the queen B we praise.”
But Selena quickly followed up with a photo of herself seemingly sitting in the bar area furthest away from the stage in her private suite, with her phone stuck onto the glass partition wall screening the sports game. “Still got my eye on the game,” she captioned the post, with Beyoncé’s performance seemingly in full swing in the background of the image.
Needless to say, many felt that this was disrespectful to Beyoncé, especially as Selena wasn’t even in the designated seating area for the show. One viral tweet simply shared a screenshot of Selena’s story with the caption: “booooooooooo” and a series of tomato emojis.
But others have defended Selena, and insisted that there’s nothing wrong with a sports fan keeping up with a game while at another event. Discussing the situation on a Reddit forum, one user said: “I live in NYC and plenty of my friends who went to the Cowboy Carter show last night also had the game on their phones… I’m not a basketball fan but apparently it’s been a big deal 🤷♀️”
Selena has not publicly acknowledged the reaction to her story, but let me know what you make of it in the comments below!