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Demi Lovato has taken to Twitter to criticise Lady Gaga's recent SXSW performance, during which she allowed a performance artist to vomit over her.
The show saw Gaga play songs from her recent album Artpop as well as a country version of 'Bad Romance'. At one point, performance artist Millie Brown drank green coloured milk, stuck her fingers down her throat, and vomited over the singer.
Watch the controversial vomiting section of the performance below
The performance did not sit well with fellow musician Demi Lovato, who received treatment for an eating disorder in 2010. The singer took to Twitter to describe the performance as "sad."
Sad... As if we didn't have enough people glamorizing eat disorders already. 😣 Bottom line, it's not "cool" or "artsy" at all.
— demetria lovato (@ddlovato) March 14, 2014
Would you let someone bring a needle and shoot up on you? Addiction is addiction.
— demetria lovato (@ddlovato) March 14, 2014
Lovato went on to write, "People emulate what they see celebrities do or let happen. And that's why I had to say something.. to let people who don't understand the art in it [know], that bulimia isn't cool, and it won't get you on stage with your favorite artist."
The singer also responded to a fan who pointed out that Lady Gaga has struggled with an eating disorder herself in the past, by asking, "So it's cool if I do a speech about self-harm and then proceed to watch someone cut themselves on my stage? No. That doesn't make it OKAY."
Speaking of the incident in her SXSW keynote speech, Lady Gaga compared herself to Martin Luther King and Andy Warhol, before saying, "I'm not saying vomit's going to change the world... it's truly just what we wanted to create and do and us respecting each other as artists."
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