Ice Spice AG apologizes after Australian festival backlash

New York rapper Ice Spice has issued a brief apology for her controversial performance at an Australian festival last week during the penultimate show of her current tour schedule.

Ice Spice has spent the New Year in Australia, where she has been booked to perform at several music festivals, including Beyond the Valley Festival in Victoria, as well as three Wildlands dates in the capital Brisbane, Perth and Australia’s capital cities Festival.

The Brisbane edition of Wildlands takes place on New Year’s Eve, just one day before Ice Spice’s 25th birthday, with the musician scheduled to perform from 10:30pm to 11pm as one of the headliners. Although Ice Spice was reportedly scheduled five minutes early, she ended up arriving 30 minutes late and didn’t appear in front of the audience until 10:55 p.m.

Due to a busy festival schedule ahead of the evening’s festivities, Ice Spice was only able to perform two songs, including “Deli” and “Princess Diana,” before her microphone was cut during “In Ha Mood.”

“At 11:01 p.m., they gave her an extra minute, they cut off the microphone and you heard a collective sigh from the crowd,” journalist and podcaster Brenton Larney told reporters. The Guardian. “They’ve been waiting for a while and they got two songs?

“So it was kind of funny, the way she walked away was really disrespectful, she was smiling and they tried to give her birthday flowers but she just shrugged it off,” he added, noting that the musician seemed “not to want to be there” There”.

Despite initially remaining silent after the festival, organizers later addressed the issue via the Instagram comments section, explaining that Ice Spice’s mic had to be cut off for the remainder of the festival – which included British duo Chase & Status Countdown – running out of time.

“We understand that the delayed arrival of Ice Spice has caused some disappointment,” the festival said. “Managing a packed festival means we have to stick to the set times very strictly. We have a strict 12:30 curfew and need to make sure the final act goes on stage in time for everyone to enjoy the countdown to New Year’s Eve.

While Ice Spice herself remained silent following the event, the musician returned to the stage to perform at the festival’s Perth leg on Saturday (January 4), where she briefly appeared on local radio station Youth Jam Talking about the future situation has been reported.

“I’m sorry and everyone can forgive me,” she said. “It’s my birthday and it took me a long time to look like Barbie,” the statement ostensibly serves as a brief introduction to her next song, the Nicki Minaj collaboration “Barbie World.” shared.

Ice Spice concluded her current tour schedule with a show in Adelaide the next day (January 5), capping off a global tour in support of her debut album. Y2K!. The record received high praise from critics and peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard 200 and No. 3 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.