About Trisha Paytas
Trisha Paytas, a former-adult-film star, is no stranger to the music industry or modern pop-culture. In fact, she has over five million subscribers on Youtube and two million followers on Instagram. Paytas also has a knack for speaking very quickly, Paytas can speak over 700 words in a minute.
Despite being a famous fast speaking influencer, when she goes viral it is often not for very positive reasons. The majority of the time when Paytas has a break-through moment online, it is due to her negative actions.
A few examples of her going viral for bad reasons is when she claimed to have Dissociative Identity Disorder when in reality she had never been diagnosed, when she mocked the transgender community, and a recurring issue is her being racially insensitive and being a known cultural appropriator.
Paytas is also well known for her digital foot print which is full of videos of her having mental breakdowns, many of which taking place on her kitchen floor, and other locations being other rooms in her home.
In these videos, she would simply sit on the kitchen floor and cry over significant events that were going on in her life. Some of these occasions include her break up with her long-term partner, Jason Nash, because she is “fat”, her shopping “addiction”, or her explaining what it was like for her in a mental hospital.
Paytas is also a mother, and she has had criticism for her parenting as well. When it comes to naming her children, the internet has plenty to say about the unique names her children have been given; these names being Malibu Barbie Paytas-Hacmon, Elvis Paytas-Hacmon, and Aquaman Moses Paytas-Hacmon.
Now it isn’t anyone else’s business but hers when it comes to naming her children, however, many netizens feel remorseful or take pity on her children for their eccentric names that will, most likely, cause them distress later in life.
Not only is she an ex-adult film star turned influencer and mother, she has released over 100 songs all of which I have not listened to, but am very familiar with, these include I Love You Jesus, Freaky, Crying on the Kitchen Floor, and her own rendition of What Dreams Are Made of, originally sung by Hilary Duff.
The Song and Trisha’s Musical Career
Now when it comes to Trisha’s musical career she often faces backlash for the many odd things she sings about. In I Love You Jesus, Trisha sings of her relationship with Jesus and how he saved her from overdosing, and ending her life.
I Love You Jesus was Paytas’ breakthrough song that had gone viral on many platforms. Many of the reasons for her going viral for this song were through people mocking her and what she was singing about. However, the negative attention, yet again, boosted her popularity and ego.
In Crying on the Kitchen Floor, Paytas sings about how she is no longer the girl she used to be and that she has grown since her kitchen floor breakdown videos. Paytas’ songs, as one can tell, are very random and paint an interesting picture that most of the time have no rhyme or reason.
This leads into Paytas’ new song Saranghae (I love you). Paytas categorizes this new song as a K-Pop song leading her into a new phase of her career.
This song is just as terrible as it seems. Her Korean is mediocre at best, but it can still be understood. The lyrics are basic just as any dumb love song, and most importantly it seems rather odd that Paytas is singing a K-pop song after all of her racist controversies.
Obviously because Paytas has had a history with cultural appropriation and racism many Korean-Americans are finding this to be just another way to be culturally tone deaf and racist by making a profit off of their culture.
One main issue with the K-pop song as a whole is the simple lack of sensitivity coming from Paytas’ end. She released the song during May, which is AAPI month, so many members of the Asian community found this insensitive and rude especially because of the traction she is gaining.
Another thing rubbing the Korean community the wrong way about this song is the fact that she is a white woman and based on her past it seems inappropriate to find a way to profit off of “cosplaying as a K-pop idol” because Paytas is in fact not a KOREAN pop idol.
Many Koreans find this song to be very on brand for her and some are even praising her for it. Korean fans of Paytas are applauding her for her Korean pronunciation and for her “amazing” representation of the Korean Pop culture scene.
Paytas is now charting and winning music shows in Korea over other K-pop groups that have worked hard for years to win, I do not believe that Paytas deserves the wins over the other groups as the song isn’t even that good and she obviously works as hard as the groups did.
Personally, I believe that K-Pop Demon Hunters blew up the charts and Paytas saw an opening to profit off of something that was trending, while completely disregarding the fact she would be offending a whole community.
Paytas has always had a history of being culturally insensitive and has no method to her madness when it comes to her music and if this song, Saranghae (I love you), doesn’t prove it, I am not sure what will.
It is important to note the more she gets fed with clout and success for her disgusting actions the more she will continue to offend more and more people even if she thinks she is being harmless. Trisha Paytas may never come to her senses, but the internet will continue to put up with her eccentric ideas and weird remarks.
