Demi Lovato Changed Her Hair And Now She’s Copping Major Criticism For Cultural Appropriation

Demi Lovato released the video to her new song No Promises and fans aren’t happy about her chosen hairstyle.

In the video, the singer’s hair is twisted to resemble dreadlocks, and people on Twitter are suggesting that she’s guilty of cultural appropriation.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUKgOQyF9b5/?taken-by=ddlovato

Traditionally, dreadlocks were worn by people of Jamaican heritage and the hairstyle has strong cultural ties to that ethnicity. Because Demi is white, fans are annoyed that she decided to make this historical style a trend.

https://twitter.com/EmiMarieSK/status/864576400757366784

Demi is way too smart to be culturally appropriating dreads, like c'mon girl.

— 🏳️‍🌈 (@MenofLetters123) May 17, 2017

https://twitter.com/IouismodeIs/status/865019545605599232

Demi…. u were my girl…….. why……….. why the dreadlocks ☹️ pic.twitter.com/40lKB3T7Mw

— legally brunette (@livraemk) April 12, 2017

However, other fans are defending the singer and claim she’s doing nothing wrong.

Yeah really they are twists not dreadlocks

— Tony Marsh (@Gaynerd21) May 17, 2017

I love her hair 😍 #demilovato #dreads #dreadlocks #purple #purplehair https://t.co/lzlHC7Sh2i

— MaryBeth Craine (@maryrocks9) July 4, 2015

https://twitter.com/CarolynG1014/status/865073172038680576

What do you make of Demi’s hair? Should she have stuck to her natural style?