Ellie Goulding reacts to 'offensive' Native American headdress comments

Ellie Goulding has responded to criticism after she wore a Native American headdress. The singer was accused of ignorance and racism after posting two photographs of herself wearing the headdress on Instagram.



She unveiled the images while performing in Puerto Rico last week, before some users responded with negative messages. Glastonbury have banned Native American headdresses being sold at the festival, while Pharrell Williams was recently criticised for wearing one for a magazine shoot, due to anger at non-Native Americans taking away their cultural and spiritual backgrounds.

Goulding, who has since removed one of the two images from her Instagram page, later told a fan that she will donate to a Native American charity campaign.

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hm, at least she's acknowledged that it was a stupid thing to do, i guess.

She has been a dissapointment since a long time ago....in every term of her existence. I can't believe I stanned for her.

love her

not when outside is a bop tho

I adore the native american aesthetic but it needs to be respected

Just stop! How is it offensive? People are so over sensitive nowadays and looking for racism in every single thing

Not her saying she only wore that headpiece for about 5 minutes when shes dressed in a full costume

...she hasn't tho. and saying "I wore it for five minutes! it's BEAUTIFUL!" is not at all indicative that she's aware of how offensive it was.

smdh white ppl...

It really wasn't necessary, she didn't do anything wrong in the first place.

Thats true tbh. I used to stan for her so hard. Now I feel like I dont like her anymore.

It's not offensive at all my God people are getting worse

Wait. I thought she would give us the typical mess.

Glad she didn't do a fake apology, donated, and moved on from this.

Nah, all she did was disrespect an entire culture/race that has been oppressed for countless centuries. No biggie.

Does it mean I cannot wear a traditional Polish costume, or traditional Chinese costume? she did not have anything bad in her mind wearing this costume! I'd be glad if someone wore a traditional Russian costume (russian here)

I am still trying to understand how it was actually offensive. I mean she wore it, yes. But wearing it automatically shames the culture? I mean ffs

Do people really find it offensive?

They need to stop being so butt-hurt over such a silly things... She was only wearing the costume, not like the stepped on it, trash that culture or something

The world is really going backward stop with this cultural nonsense. Dressing up with something belonging to a different culture IS NOT cultural appropriaton. Damn this was only a photo it was Halloween