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An online fan petition has been launched to remove Paris Hilton’s DJ set from the Summerfest lineup.
The list of bands scheduled to play Wisconsin’s Summerfest – which has been dubbed “the world’s largest music festival” – is looking exciting, with the likes of Kings Of Leon, Kendrick Lamar, The Flaming Lips, Santigold and Linkin Park lined up to perform. But amongst those acts are Paris Hilton, who is scheduled to bring her underwhelming DJ set to the event. Ticket holders are, understandably, disappointed with that booking decision, and are demanding that the festival remove her from the lineup.
Watch Paris Hilton "DJ" (aka dance) below:
The petition, ‘Remove Paris Hilton from the Lineup’, already has nearly 5,000 signatures. “This is a middle finger to anyone who paid to go this festival,” it reads. “You claim to be one of the premier festivals in America and then you go ahead and hire someone like Paris Hilton. She is a disgrace to dance music and is a perfect example of what spoiled celebrities do when they're bored.”
“She has no right to be paid good money to stand up there and clap her hands on a stage,” it continues. “That money could be used to hire credible djs that actually work hard on their craft. If Paris has any respect for dance music she would step down as she's clearly not worthy.” Thomas Neill, the man behind the petition, goes on to write that allowing Hilton to perform at the festival is supporting a “false, non credible, and quite frankly overall terrible ‘musician’/’DJ’” and that it “diminishes dance music as nothing more than a cheap show.”
