With the release of the Ryan Murphy-produced true-crime series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”, family members of some of the notorious serial killer’s victims are expressing their displeasure with the dramatization.
27.09.2022 - 20:05 / foxnews.com
Although serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is long deceased, his name has caused a buzz again in the news, this time in conjunction with pop stars Katy Perry and Kesha. In the wake of "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" being released just under a week ago on Netflix, climbing to the top spot on the streaming service, fans are critical of two songs, sung by Perry and Kesha, that made crude references to the cannibalistic acts of Dahmer.
Perry's song "Dark Horse," featuring Juicy J, was released in 2013, while Kesha's "Cannibal" debuted in 2010. Both Katy Perry and Kesha are under fire for lyrics referencing Jeffrey Dahmer in old songs they have released. (Steve Granitz/Curt Borgwardt/Theo Wargo) In Perry's song, the lyrics in question are actually not sung by the "American Idol" judge herself, but rather rapped by Juicy J.
He says, "Uh, she's a beast/I call her Karma (come back)/She eats your heart out like Jeffrey Dahmer (whoa!)/Be careful/Try not to lead her on (mm)." One person wrote on Twitter, "It still upsets me when I hear the line in the song Dark Horse "She eats your heart out like Jeffrey Dahmer" and I always make my daughter turn the station. It's so disrespectful to the victims families.
I hope people remember them while watching Netflix. Sorry for their losses," while another tweeted, "why isn’t anyone calling out Katy Perry for allowing such a vile & terrible lyric to be included in one of her hit songs? Jeffrey was a notorious serial killer & Katy CHOSE to romanticize his criminal & inhumane actions.
I actually feel sick to my stomach. She NEEDS to apologize." While the reference to Jeffrey Dahmer is actually made by Juicy J on the "Dark Horse" track, several people are attacking Katy Perry for her choice to
.With the release of the Ryan Murphy-produced true-crime series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”, family members of some of the notorious serial killer’s victims are expressing their displeasure with the dramatization.
Netflix series about the serial killer.Speaking to The Guardian, Shirley Hughes said that she hadn’t seen all of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which focused one of its 10 episodes on her son. However, she concluded that the events depicted “didn’t happen like that,” before questioning how such a show came to be made.“I don’t see how they can do that,” Hughes said.
Jeffrey Dahmer victim Tony Hughes, has spoken out against the Netflix series,, which depicts the serial killer’s murders. “I don’t see how they can use our names and put stuff out like that out there,” she said. In an interview with the , Shirley, now 85, has joined the growing number of relatives who have slammed Ryan Murphy’s dramatization starring Evan Peters as the gruesome killer who murdered 17 men and teenage boys over 13 years.
Joe Berlinger is certain Jeffrey Dahmer had a "death wish" when the serial killer requested to be moved to general population. It was February 1992 when Dahmer arrived at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, to serve 15 consecutive life sentences. His horrific crimes had drawn worldwide attention, and he was nicknamed the "Milwaukee Cannibal." Police officials decided to put Dahmer in protective custody out of concern that an inmate would attempt to make a name for himself by targeting the killer.
Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in 1991 and charged with killing 17 men and teenage boys over a 13-year span, two of the victims’ friends are speaking out in the Netflix docuseries,. Both Michael Ross and Jeff Connor detail their encounters with the serial killer, remember the last time they saw their friends alive and explain why it’s important to “humanize the individuals who lost their lives.” “Recognizing that each one of those young men had a mother, a father, had sisters and brothers that loved them and still miss them,” says Ross, who was close with several of the men killed by Dahmer, including Tony Sears, Tony Hughes, Ernest Miller and Eddie Smith. “I knew Jeffrey Dahmer and several of his victims,” Ross reveals, before going on to speak about Sears, who was also a friend of Connor’s. “Tony Sears was about 23 or 24.
The Jeffrey Dahmer series Monster has officially landed on the list of Netflix‘s most watched TV shows of all time, just 12 days after debuting on the streamer.
Kesha's mother explained how the pop star's song "Cannibal" came to have a reference to the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Pebe Sebert revealed that she actually wrote the lyric during a TikTok video she shared Sunday.The song became a topic of online discussion after Netflix released a series about Dahmer's murders. "Some context on the lyric that's bothering people 12 years later," she captioned the video.
Kesha's mum Pebe Sebert has revealed she wrote the controversial lyric about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in her daughter's song 'Cannibal'. The 2010 track has been thrust back into the spotlight following the release of Netflix's new drama 'Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story' starring Evan Peters with many suggesting it was insensitive to the victims to name-check the multiple murderer in the song as the pop star sang: "Be too sweet and you'll be a goner. Yeah, I'll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer.
Kesha‘s mom Pebe Sebert is addressing controversy related to Jeffrey Dahmer.
Telling the truth. Jeffrey Dahmer’s victim’s family spoke out about the two new Netflix shows about the serial killer. Rita Isbell, brother of Errol Lindsey who was one of the last victims of Dahmer, wrote an essay for Insider about how she and her family were impacted by the show.
Netflix‘s “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which stars Evan Peters, the song has faced backlash for referencing the infamous serial killer, according to Indy100.The lyrics, which appear midway through the track, are “She’s a beast/ I call her Karma/ She eats your heart like Jeffrey Dahmer,” and were rapped by featured artist Juicy J. “It still upsets me when I hear the line in the song ‘Dark Horse’ ‘She eats your heart out like Jeffrey Dahmer’ and I always make my daughter turn the station,” wrote one angry Twitter user. “It’s so disrespectful to the victims families,” the person continued.
Netflix series “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” now streaming. Evan Peters, 35, stars as the infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991.The new show has renewed interest in Dahmer, leading some viewers and “fans” to post disconcertingly loving sentiments about the serial killer, who also engaged in cannibalism and necrophilia.“Jeffrey Dahmers mugshot definitely gives something i didn’t know or think it would give,” one person tweeted, to which another Twitter user replied, “You don’t, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Jeffrey Dhamer.” Another Twitter user wrote, “oh you think jeffrey dahmer is hot? Ok well I am going to beat you with a stick,” to which someone replied, “jeffrey dahmer is hot.”One fan even tweeted a photo of Dahmer, bemoaning the fact that Peters was the first result to come up when they searched his photo online. “we’ll get through this era king I promise,” they wrote next to a photo of Dahmer, seemingly referring to the serial killer as “king,” to which another Twitter user replied, “Are you seriously praising a murderer???”you will NOT think Evan Peters is hot playing Dahmer pic.twitter.com/Y8fX6iGnYTAnother Twitter user posted, “if you’re thirsting over jeffrey dahmer because he’s played by evan peters PLEASE block me.” The Netflix series, which premiered Sept.
Katy Perry has faced a backlash relating to lyrics about Jeffrey Dahmer after a new Netflix series put the serial killer's disturbing crimes in the spotlight for millions of viewers. Having watched the Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story - fans have now taken an issue with the popstar's song 'Dark Horse'.