Sophia Laforteza is speaking out in defense of KATSEYE.
The 23-year-old girl group member appeared alongside her band on Jake Shane‘s Therapuss podcast, where they opened up about their music and their career trajectory in the music industry.
At one point, Sophia spoke up about the hate that the group receives online, and the clip has been going viral on social media.
“A lot of these people don’t have original thoughts,” Sophia began, referring to online haters.
“They literally… somebody starts it. Somebody always starts it based on the tiny, tiny little information that they know, filtered literally on your screen on a little rectangle, right? And then they’ll see that and be like, ‘Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, this person’s right. Let’s get really loud.’ They could literally fill this room, but they could sound like a whole stadium,” she said.
“That’s why, just to bring it back to when we perform and all that stuff, when we have something going on and it’s just so loud on the Internet, I would literally be on my phone and think, ‘Wow, my phone is blowing up with people checking in on me.’ Like, it’s so loud. Then I put my phone down, I’m in a restaurant, and nobody f–king knows who I am in this room. Nobody knows. Then I go someplace like Coachella, and we’re in the Sahara Tent, right? So there’s this whole tent in front of us, and we just see this crowd of people. I’m like, ‘Wow, this is a lot of people,’” she continued.
“Then I see the drone footage when I go online, and it’s even bigger. People came to Coachella just to be there. They can’t even see us or hear us all the way from the back, but they showed up. All of those people outnumber the amount of people that are actually making all this noise online. People think that the internet is the whole world, but it’s not,” she said.
“Stan Twitter could easily be like, ‘KATSEYE‘s done.’ No, we’re not.”
“We’re just girls doing our best to empower and impact the world and fulfill our dream. We just want to sing and dance. Then you’re like, ‘Oh my God, KATSEYE‘s done. I’m so mad at that face she just made.’ Close your eyes…I could literally go to your neighbor and ask them, ‘Do you know who I am?’ They’re gonna be like, ‘No.’ Exactly. You guys, come on. The internet is not everything. Go catch some butterflies.”
Watch the full conversation above.
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