AKON Says 'Sorry' For 'Dry-Humping' 14 Year Old On Stage - Page 11

mockingbird · #51 05-12-2007, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by iamaposeur

The stuff in Trinidad happened before her tour with him. For all we know, Gwen might not have been aware with his raunchy his shows are (though she probably just didn't care since they were all 18+ shows). She's said that since the Sweet Escape tour is all ages, nothing close to what happened has happened on her tour.

Verizon also pulled out of her entire tour before she had a chance to kick him off or even react publicly and that's why I feel bad for her. I know she's helping to promote him, but I just find it rather harsh to just cancel the whole tour when Verizon/Gwen could have just kicked Akon off the bill and let the tour continue. I'm probably just being naive by assuming she would actually do something about him though. It just seems like it all happened rather quickly.

where did she comment about this?

luckystar · #52 05-12-2007, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Dawlheart

The fact that she's 14 should give her a little leeway on the "idiot" thing. No one went unscathed at 14 years old. Parents or not, Akon is the one that went through with the action. Even if she were 18 that is taking advantage of the fact that a young girl looks up to you, and by extension would let you get away with murder because of your status. Of course, this is my whole anti-groupie stand in general.

Oh, I don't disagree. Most teenagers, especially that young are idiots. That's just how it is at that age.

iamaposeur · #53 05-12-2007, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by mockingbird

where did she comment about this?

i checked back and it was her manager, not her that made the comment.

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Ascension · #54 05-12-2007, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dawlheart

The fact that she's 14 should give her a little leeway on the "idiot" thing. No one went unscathed at 14 years old. Parents or not, Akon is the one that went through with the action. Even if she were 18 that is taking advantage of the fact that a young girl looks up to you, and by extension would let you get away with murder because of your status. Of course, this is my whole anti-groupie stand in general.

What if she were older than him? Would he still be taking advatage of her?

luckystar · #55 05-12-2007, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by iamaposeur

The stuff in Trinidad happened before her tour with him. For all we know, Gwen might not have been aware with his raunchy his shows are (though she probably just didn't care since they were all 18+ shows).

Verizon also pulled out of her entire tour before she had a chance to kick him off or even react publicly and that's why I feel bad for her. I know she's helping to promote him, but I just find it rather harsh to just cancel the whole tour when Verizon/Gwen could have just kicked Akon off the bill and let the tour continue. I'm probably just being naive by assuming she would actually do something about him though. It just seems like it all happened rather quickly.

I guess my thing is, I don't blame Verizon at all. Had they not reacted really quickly they would have ended up getting flack for it & looking shitty.

Whether his shows are raunchy all the time or not doesn't matter. If Gwen didn't know when she signed him on she didn't know; but the fact is she does now and as far as I know has not done anything or even spoken about it publicly. I would be willing to bet if she did & he lost opening up on her tour then Verizon would be willing to back her again. She wasn't the one causing problems.

Ascension - yes. It doesn't matter how old somebody is doing that is still wrong.