Blake Shelton is facing adversity as he debuts a song titled ‘Minimum Wage’, while people in America are still struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The coach of ‘The Voice’ debuted the new single on NBC’s TV specialist on New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly to help ring in 2021. The country singer told the host that his fiancée, Gwen Stefani, had helped her brother, Todd, too late to direct.
The artist’s new song has to do with his love for the 51-year-old “Hollaback Girl” singer and contains a lyric in the choir that upsets many people who have seen the broadcast.
“Girl, your love can make a man feel rich at the minimum wage.”
Given that the coronavirus pandemic caused many businesses to close and put many Americans out of work, people quickly took to Twitter to paralyze the singer for releasing a song they said was “tone deaf”. the current climate.
“The irony of listening to a millionaire Blake Shelton at the end of 2020 singing about ‘love at a minimum wage’ could be lost on his target audience, ” wrote one user.
‘I like his music, but the timing for Minimum Wage is not great. With so many people out of work and struggling, the song feels a bit dull. I would love to hear songs that are more personal. Wish he had written more of his own stuff, because he’s an amazing songwriter, ” another wrote in a tweet that was unavailable from Sunday.
Someone else agreed, writing: “Does anyone else find Blake Shelton’s ‘Minimum Loon’ song incredibly tone deaf to our current country?”
‘Please excuse everyone for your song’ minimum wage ‘. From what I read, you took down a number of people during a time when we needed songs of hope and charity, no more shit about how much you and Gwen love. What an insult to us all. Boooooo, ” added a more blunt user.
“What !? @blakeshelton is #MinimumWage even real? Yes of course @gwenstefani can make a man on the minimum wage feel rich because she’s a millionaire. Do you work at the Home Depot now or something? Do you want to pay my rent? ” shut down someone else.
The song has not yet been fully released and Shelton has not yet publicly commented on the setback on social media.
As of Thursday morning, the new coronavirus had infected more than 82,791,115 people in 191 countries and territories, resulting in at least 1,806,478 deaths. In the U.S., all 50 states plus the District of Columbia have reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, counting more than 19,744,737 diseases and at least 350,000 deaths.
A representative for Shelton did not immediately request a comment.