Demi Lovato hit out at Lady Gaga for her South By Southwest Performance, claiming that it glamorized eating disorders. "Putting the word ART in it isn't a free card to do whatever you want without consequences," she tweeted. She faced a lot of hate from Gaga's "Little Monsters" who hit back at the Latina singer on Twitter. The comments generated serious debate back and forth on the Twittersphere. "It's not 'shade' and it's not 'hate'. But someone has to come forward and say it and I'll take the heat for it," she wrote.
"All I'm saying is, artists in pop culture have influence on people.. Young people who are struggling to figure out their identities are seriously influenced by the things they see their idols do," Lovato eventually wrote in an extended tweet. "Whether we intend to or not, artists influence people of ALL ages and unfortunately what people see, people do... And that's why I had to say something.. to let the people who don't understand the art in it, that bulimia isn't cool, and it won't get you on stage with your favorite artist."
Earlier in the day, Gaga defended her performance, drawing some pretty big comparisons. "I'm so deeply passionate about any person that has an artistic spirit — any person that has a talent that they believe in no matter how crazy the idea; you never know where that crazy idea might lead you," she said. "Martin Luther King thought he could start a revolution without violence and Andy Warhol thought that he could make a soup can into art. Sometimes things that are really, really strange and feel really wrong can really change the world."
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