Azealia Banks' Australian Tour Oozes Controversy From Every Single Angle

Azealia Banks has cancelled her Brisbane show on her Australian tour. 

The show was meant to take place last night at The Tivoli. The promoter, Point Productions posted to their Instagram stories the show was unable to proceed "due to unforseen circumstances."

They continued to say this has been "well out of our control."

Earlier in the day though, Banks used her burner Instagram to air out other grievances with Australian fans. 

She said, “I’m so sorry you guys, actually I’m not sorry, but listen: last time I was in Brisbane and ya’ll threw shit on the stage and damn near almost fucking hit me in the face with a fucking bottle of soda or whatever that shit was.

"That was the most racist, most demoralising experience of my fucking life and right now I’m on a really good track."

She continued to say that the she has, "enough emotional intelligence to erase room for error before it happens," and potentially not perform the show in Brisbane because the Australian media would "make it [her] fault."

She followed up those stories with one outlining the conditions that the show would need to be under in order to perform stating, "I will come to Brisbane, there's gonna be loads of security measures because y'all are not about to play in my fucking face. Not while I've worked so hard and finally gotten another major label break.

"Any and everything that can be considered a projective must be checked in at coat check. No keys, no coins, no hair brushes, no vape pens, no lighters. No drinks on the dancefloor. The minute something stupid happens I'm leaving."

She continued to comment on Australian promoters stating that they are, "the only ones in the world who craft slave like contracts and try to hang revocation of work visas and non-payment over your head, even when you are in physical danger... completely souring the joy and bliss of performing.

"After this run this will be my very last time touring Australia.

"This place makes me utterly miserable and I'm too black and beautiful to have a bunch of white people in my face playing with me over their WEAK ASS CURRENCY."

She then went on to trash the AUD and called this Australian tour her, "farewell tour".

Azealia Banks also cancelled her Melbourne show a mere few hours before she was set to take the stage. She has only made it to Sydney where she performed at the Enmore Theatre last Sunday. 

Azealia Banks' tour was met with controversy since the minute it was announced, given her history of homophobia and transphobia. In 2019 she released a weird statement attempting to cut ties with her "gay fans" telling them “Do not take that PrEP shit, okay?" after Frank Ocean started a club night after its name. 

After apologising saying it wasn't her place she doubled down on her homophobia, "Lol, I love the gays and love how much y’all love me but I really have to eject. I think you guys are into a lot of shit/people I just don’t find value in."

Many fans also called the promoters out for platforming Azealia Banks following her open transphobia. After a fan told Banks she needed to convert to Judaism to become Jewish, Banks replied with transphobic remarks. She said, "why can you chop ur cock and say ur a girl but I can't catch the Jewish nut and be Jewish. Stop trying to exclude black people from everything. 

"I live for the trans girls but the trans s--- is really a non issue. Just gay boys on hormones using male aggression to force their ways into women's spaces," Banks concluded.

It's no surprise that Azealia Banks has noticed that Australian fan behaviour is well below standard globally. 

Just earlier this year on the Listen Out tour Tove Lo got an ice cube thrown at her head, Billie Eilish who is famous for being sober got asked about shoeys, major festivals have been embarrassed by crowd chants. It's time for a cultural reset.

At Splendour In The Grass many fans commented on the embarrassing crowd chants that rang throughout major artist slots, mainly to do with calling for major artists (that are famously sober) to do shoeys. 

Between Tyler, The Creator's biggest songs crowds screamed shoey, showcasing that they were clearly not there to enjoy one of the most heralded global tours, but instead to use the artist as a robotic object for their weirdly manifesting desire of entertainment.

Jack Harlow also fell victim to the heckling with fans insisting he do a shoey even after he denied the request. He said, “Never thought I’d need a translation in Australia. I still have no fucking clue what you’re saying.” 

“Y’all know I don’t drink right. I hope you’re not asking me to drink. You think I came to Australia to get peer pressured? Fuck outta here man.” 

As we turn to a huge summer festival circuit, let's hope that our Australian festival culture doesn't continue to cause universal cringe.