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IOL News
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- IOL News
Doechii responds to viral umbrella meltdown: 'God forbid a girl needs more umbrellas'
Rapper Doechii was caught in a chaotic yet hilarious moment outside her hotel while trying to dodge cameras before a red carpet appearance. Image: X/@doechiibrasil Now listen, there's fashionably late, and then there's fashionably dramatic and Doechii just gave us both. In a video that's making the rounds, the "Anxiety" rapper was caught in a flurry of umbrellas, frustration, and camera flashes as she tried to make a covert exit from her hotel lobby. The now-viral moment shows Doechii snapping at her team after they failed to fully shield her from paparazzi while she was rocking an unrevealed LV outfit. As soon as those elevator doors slid open, chaos ensued. She wasn't having it. "I'm ready," she says, before adding, "No, stop. Give me another umbrella now - and another. I need more f****** umbrellas." Another clip shows her demanding extra coverage behind a portable clothing rack while everyone scrambled to keep up. why is doechii talking to her team like this?? I would've threw an umbrella AT HER so fast…. — jp ☆ (@trinsbang) May 6, 2025 While some fans were entertained, others side-eyed the way she addressed her team. Social media was split between calling it a classic diva moment and suggesting she was too harsh on her crew. Either way, umbrellas have never seen this much action. To her credit, Doechii didn't let the drama linger. She addressed the viral moment in true internet-savvy fashion: with a TikTok. Using the iconic Druski meme pose and the smooth tune of The Commodores' "Easy". She joked: "God forbid a girl needs more umbrellas." In her caption, she admitted the night had been overstimulating but meaningful: "All jokes aside, this was such an overstimulating night, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. This was the night we all dreamed of, and my team killed it (umbrellas aside)." The TikTok taps into the popular "God Forbid" trend currently sweeping the app, where users dramatise ordinary needs or behaviours in a tongue-in-cheek way to mock how people overreact. In Doechii's case? God forbid a girl wants to protect her look before hitting the carpet. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ Ad Loading Doechii responds to accusations of being rude to her team at the Met Gala. — Pop Base (@PopBase) May 7, 2025 However, fans aren't here to treat celebs like they're untouchable anymore. We're living in an era where calling you out, whether you're a celeb or not, has become a trend. People are starting to recognise that at the end of the day, we're all just humans. @Mutant_Menace commented, "It's not about the umbrellas, it's about how rude she was to her assistants." @MMONlKA also added, "This is not a way to apologise for swearing and demanding things that you think you're entitled to. Someone needs to ego her." @tdkimber wrote, "It's always like this, 'I'm just a normal person being held to too high of a standard,' when usually there is a lot more beneath the surface. "Not saying there isn't greater pressure for celebrities, but the horror stories of how staff are treated almost always start with truth."
WIRED
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- WIRED
These Noise-Canceling Headphones Deliver Gorgeous Sound for a Pretty Penny
I am fully immersed in the tones of Jonathan Wilson's stereo guitars on 'Desert Raven,' practically able to hear the pick on each jangly strum. The stereo image is as wide as you can possibly expect from a pair of closed-back headphones. It's still leaning out to each side more than fully spreading out into space like it might with speakers or open-backed headphones, but the gorgeous tonality of the reproduction never makes anything feel smaller than it should. The ability to fully recreate the entire soundstage in warm and exacting detail is like a French chef making something simple with only the finest ingredients. These headphones don't add a hi-fi Instagram-filter tonality to your favorite music; instead, they act like a beautiful Leica lens. Old favorites simply sound better when played through these headphones, especially in DAC mode. Photograph: Parker Hall Plugging into your laptop via USB-C and using DAC mode essentially lets you use these headphones as their own digital audio decoder—better than Bluetooth, and in the vast majority of cases better than using your laptop or tablet's built-in 3.5-mm port, if the device even has one. By plugging straight into USB, you can enjoy full digital fidelity the likes of which you won't get wirelessly, and it makes these a real treat to take with you for wired listening on the go. Instead of having to bring a dedicated headphone amp like the Astell & Kern HC4 ($220), you can just bring these and a USB-C cable. The dongles I usually bring aren't large, but I'll take one less thing in my travel kit. I loved cueing up old favorites like The Commodores' 'Easy,' to hear the difference between DAC mode and wireless listening. It's particularly noticeable in the high end, where the hi-hats and cymbals just seem to shimmer a bit more when listening with the USB-C cable. That said, wireless playback is shockingly on par, which is telling to folks who continue to pooh-pooh any form of Bluetooth listening at the high end. I was able to deeply enjoy music both wired and wirelessly on the Bathys MG. As a do-it-all audio accessory, you can think of this pair as something like Bentley or Rolls-Royce class, rather than a Ferrari. Sure, they're not as sharp, shiny, or perfect as more premium wired models for true analog nerds (which Focal also makes), but this pair is the type that you really want to drive daily. They're comfortable, and they sound good enough that you can truly forget the mess that is the world around you for at least a song or two. Isn't that what money is for?
