Actress Amandla Stenberg, who plays Osha and Mae in Star Wars: The Acolyte, released a low production value diss track on Juneteenth in an attempt to defend the show and her past controversial comments.
Amandla Stenberg attends the UK Premiere of Lucasfilm’s ‘The Acolyte’ at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London, on May 28, 2024. (Photo by StillMoving.Net for Disney)
Stenberg posted the nearly 4 minute song to her Instagram account writing, “Happy Juneteenth and to those who are flooding me with intolerable racism—since it took me 72 hours on my laptop to make this song and video, u got 72 hours to respond. and I expect choreo!!”
The song begins with Stenberg gyrating as the term “Discourse” blinks rapidly over her head. Ironically, the lyrics “We so bored, don’t f*** with your discourse” are repeated.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MAY 23: Amandla Stenberg attends the launch event for Lucasfilm’s new Star Wars series The Acolyte at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on May 23, 2024. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)
From there, Stenberg sings, “I’m going viral on twitter again. Open up the news to find some interesting things. 20 million views. Interview from 2018 with Trevor the King when I was thirteen. (Stenberg was 20 at the time of the interview with Trevor Noah)”
The song continues, “I was running from city to city to speak on a story, you know the one, police murdering a black boy. My people cried in the theaters finding release. White people cried. They could see us as human beings. Trevor ask what I want the people to know. I say white people crying was the goal. If they could take one thing what would it be? I say empathy. Ooooo that’s why they mad at me?”
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – MAY 21: The Acolyte’s Amandla Stenberg poses at Disneyland on May 21, 2024 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images for Disney)
Stenberg then sings, “They splice lines, make hate they recognize, make it look like the same propaganda they spew ’cause they conflate our pain with violence and try to weaponize everything that we do. The desperation of oppressors is rising and now they holding onto any ole thing they can use. If you rely upon misinformation then that tells me you afraid of the truth.”
From there, Stenberg sings “We so bored, don’t f*** with your discourse” over and over again.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MAY 23: Amandla Stenberg attends the launch event for Lucasfilm’s new Star Wars series The Acolyte at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on May 23, 2024. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)
Next, she sings, “And now you listening imma tell you something fascinating. They spinning woke. Bastardize it and appropriate it. Last I recall woke was something we created. Speak truth to power. Keep an eye out for you silly racists. And now they use it to describe anything they threatened by. Remember when Gambino put it in the zeitgeist? It was all about the people recognizing bigotry. The power of community not fodder for your clickbait.”
“Speaking of which, journalists I’m looking at you. Did you forget it’s your job to provide the truth? Spreading divisiveness, mining the metrics and data, seem you gave up all your ethics for money and views. And I can tell that the people are tired and the kids don’t trust anything that they view. We can learn something from their discernment. The future’s coming and it’s always the youth,” she continues.
The chorus then repeats.
Mae Aniseya (Amandla Stenberg) in Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, season one, exclusively on Disney+. ©.
She then concludes, “My sis said don’t let it get to my spirit, but I’m sick and f***ing tired of suppressing my rage. 400 years of taking their bulls**t to compartmentalize like my ancestors had to encaged? If you don’t confront the pain that you live with, it’ll manifest as addiction diseases and hate. I’ve seen the infection repression can give ya. I’m not gonna be the next one sent to an early grave.”
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The Acolyte currently sits at a 14% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 1.2 out of 5.
Star Wars: The Acolyte Rotten Tomatoes scores
On IMDb the show currently has a 3.4 rating. the unweighted mean is 3.0 and the majority (57.2%) of all reviews are 1 out of 10.
The Acolyte review scores on IMDb
As far as the show’s ratings, The Walt Disney Company revealed the show’s total global viewership was seemingly less than the U.S. viewership of Ahsoka. Disney claimed the series had 11.1 million views for the first two episodes, which comes to 820 million minutes viewed. Ahsoka’s U.S. viewership had 829 million minutes viewed according to Nielsen.
In fact, Luminate data revealed the first two episodes only attracted 210 million minutes viewed in the United States for the series.
Mae (Amandla Stenberg) in Lucasfilm’s THE ACOLYTE, exclusively on Disney+. ©.
As for Stenberg’s claim that her comments about making white people cry were taken out of context, this is true. However, as previously noted even in context the comments are disgusting. In fact, she even confirms that the comments were made to push an agenda in her song.
What do you make of Stenberg’s song?
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