Kacey Musgraves divides fans with immigrant children’s plea, faces boycott calls to ‘shut up and sing’
Kacey Musgraves is facing backlash after asking fans to donate to an immigrant children’s rights group as her birthday wish while kicking off her "Middle of Nowhere" tour.
On Friday, the country music star marked her 38th birthday on the opening night of her tour at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
At one point, Musgraves paused her show and urged concertgoers to contribute to the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights.
"It’s a wonderful organization, and they help give aid — legal aid — and money to children whose parents have been deported unfairly," Musgraves said .
"It’s not a political thing.
It’s just, these kids need help." She continued, "They have no guidance and no way to get through this thing without their homebase or their parents.
So anyway, 50 cents, whatever the hell, I don't know, whatever you want to do but that would mean a lot to me." KACEY MUSGRAVES FACES BOYCOTT CALLS AFTER ASKING FANS TO DONATE TO IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S GROUP "If you don't want to, that's totally fine too," Musgraves added.
The eight-time Grammy Award winner's appeal was immediately met with applause and cheers from the crowd in Chicago.
However, Musgraves' request drew a divided response online, including criticism from conservative political commentators .
"What is an unfair deportation?" Tomi Lahren, host of Outkick's "Tomi Lahren Is Fearless" podcast, wrote on X alongside a video of Musgraves' birthday request.
KENNY CHESNEY TELLS BILL MAHER THE KEY REASON HE REFUSES TO TELL HIS LISTENERS HOW TO VOTE "Kacey Musgraves stopped her concert to ask the audience to donate money for legal aid to kids whose parents have been deported ‘unfairly.’ How about donating money the help kids who's parents have been killed by illegal immigrants! What happened to the country music industry?" conservative influencer Vince Langman commented.
"Another TRAITOROUS woman who wants nothing more than to see our country fall," an X user chimed in.
"Shut up and sing Kasey (sic)!! Why do musicians think they Can draw a line in the sand? You alienate 50% of your audience," another commented.
Some critics declared that they would no longer support Musgraves and called for a boycott of her music and concerts.
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