As if protesting Kanye West wasn’t enough, now fans of the Milwaukee music festival Summerfest are coming together to petition against Paris Hilton’s scheduled DJ set. The petition, which at publication time has over 4,000 signatures, urges Summerfest to cancel her performance.
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The text of the Paris Hilton petition reads:
This is a middle finger to anyone who paid to go this festival. 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. 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. Signing her to Summerfest is supporting a false, non credible, and quite frankly overall terrible “musician”/”DJ”. This diminishes dance music as nothing more than a cheap show and if you have any respect for the integrity of music you will remove Paris Hilton from the lineup. Please sign and share this petition together we can at least show Paris that we won’t stand for this.
The full Summerfest lineup includes Kendrick Lamar with ScHoolboy Q, Kings of Leon, Zac Brown Band, Linkin Park, The Flaming Lips, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Jane’s Addiction, Nas, Public Enemy, Santigold, The New Pornographers, Gary Clark Jr., Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, Mavis Staples, Sylvan Esso, Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, and Field Report. Running from June 24-28 and June 30-July 5, Summerfest is billed as the “World’s Largest Festival” since it spans so many days and stages.
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Hilton has been DJing continuously for at least a year now, but still, fans are uninterested in her addition to the lineup. Here’s footage of Hilton DJing in 2014: