Dylan Mulvaney has raised concerns about his song “Days of Girlhood”, admitting that its “stupid lyrics” are “boring” and unflattering to teenagers and young women.
The trans influencer released a video this week to respond to critics who say the three-minute ditty denigrates young women as volatile, sexually promiscuous shopaholics.
Mulvaney, 27, said she didn’t want to ridicule women and wanted to write a light-hearted song celebrating the transition from guy to girl that she began documenting two years ago.
It’s just the latest controversy surrounding Mulvaney, whose tie-up with Bud Light last year sparked an angry backlash among conservatives that cost the brewer millions in lost sales.
Mulvaney says she’s aware conservatives and liberals have a problem with her words
The video for “Days of Girlhood” has been viewed 855,000 times since its release on YouTube.
“The fact that conservatives and liberals probably agree that this is potentially the most boring song in history is no small feat.” ” Mulvaney said in a post on TikTok this week.
Mulvaney admitted that his three-minute pop song was filled with “stupid lyrics.”
But she said that made it “fun” and reminiscent of Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 classic, Girls Just Want to Have Fun.
“I don’t think femininity or childhood should be seen as stupid, frivolous things,” she said.
“I still think we should be allowed to enjoy these things. And I probably could have written a song about my pain or my trauma. But I didn’t want to.
She nevertheless acknowledged that it was for many listeners a “very bad song”.
This was partly due to his “bad taste in music”, she added.
Despite the song’s failures, she added, she continues to raise money for the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ charity.
“Even when transphobes play the song, that money goes to queer kids,” she said. “It’s a victory.”
Mulvaney released her song and video last week, in which she dances in a mini dress, crop top, green polka dot dress and hot pink negligee.
The video has been viewed 855,000 times since it was posted on YouTube.
In it, Mulvaney’s words send women “spending too much” into needing “retail therapy” and having to “buy drugs” and deal with a “breakdown.”
She also says girls “flirt for drinks” and talks about a “walk of shame” after spending a night with a man, even though she “didn’t even know his name.”
Critics from the left and right pounced on her words, saying they made fun of young women.
In a DailyMail.com column, Amber Duke called out “misogyny” coming from someone “cosplaying a biological woman.”
It’s full of “classic sexist tropes,” Duke added, that “women are addicted to clothes” and “can’t control their emotions.”
The criticism comes nearly a year after Mulvaney’s disastrous tie-up with Bud Light, which sparked a boycott and cost the company nearly $400 million in U.S. sales.
Mulvaney, an unemployed performing artist, became an internet celebrity in 2022 by launching her hit TikTok series, Days of Girlhood, in which she documents her transition from a young gay man to a “girl.”
She has made millions of dollars endorsing cosmetics, fashion and other products, appeared alongside President Joe Biden at the White House and alongside Hollywood celebrities.
The case came to light last April, when she posted a video to promote a Bud Light giveaway, claiming the company had sent her a can with his face on it to celebrate her gender change.
This angered conservatives, who said a favorite beer had “woke up.”
They denounced on social media and boycotted the drink, which cost parent company Anheuser-Busch $400 million in revenue, a 13.5% drop.
Rolling around in bed and grimacing, Mulvaney insisted in a recent article that she has a lot of work to do, but doesn’t say what it is.
Mulvaney spoke in December to a half-empty Penn State auditorium, where she revealed her plans for a one-woman show.
Musician Kid Rock, NFL player Trae Waynes and model Bri Teresi were among the high-profile faces who stoked outrage, filming themselves shooting at beer cans.
The fallout led to a devastating period for Bud Light, where it suffered repeated double-digit revenue declines on an almost weekly basis.
Mulvaney, however, earned $2 million from her promotional work last year, landing deals with Nike and Mac, and she appeared at the Golden Globes in January.
In December, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
But it’s still unclear whether she’ll be able to forge a career after Bud Light.
In December, she addressed a half-empty auditorium at Penn State, where she revealed plans for a one-woman show.
In a late-night post last month, Mulvaney said she had a lot of work to do and that her “15 minutes” of fame weren’t over.
Wearing pajamas, rolling around in bed and repeating herself, Mulvaney insisted she had many projects in the works and was “preparing for things in two or three years.”