He’ll be who? Joe Jonas simply modified up a well-known lyric in his tune “Cake By The Ocean.” Followers of the Jonas Brothers observed that he purposefully skipped it over amid the file mogul’s arrest.
For context, Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested in New York on September 16, 2024, and charged with intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He pleaded not responsible to all expenses and was refused bail. Allegations towards the Dangerous Boy Information CEO date again greater than a decade, however as extra proof got here out about his habits, many celebrities have chosen to omit references to him.
Joe Jonas and his band DNCE launched the tune “Cake by the Ocean” on September 18, 2015, and the tune peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 100 charts. In the course of the refrain, Joe sings, “I’ll be Diddy, you’ll be Naomi, woah-oh” referring to Diddy’s short-term relationship with supermodel Naomi Campbell. The band additionally posed with Diddy for a photograph shortly after the tune got here out.
What did Joe Jonas change his Diddy lyric in “Cake by the Ocean” to?
At a Jonas Brothers live performance in Paris’s LDLC Enviornment on September 28, 2024, Joe Jonas determined to interchange the identify “Diddy” with one thing else. The precise identify isn’t clear in footage, however many followers have speculated that he’s saying “Watts” as an alternative of Diddy in reference to actress Naomi Watts. Different followers consider he sang, “Martin,” however nobody is sort of positive who Martin is referring to.
The Paris present is the primary time that Joe Jonas made the change to the tune. Even after Diddy’s arrest, Joe appeared to nonetheless sing the Diddy line in his live shows in London and Vienna the week earlier than.
Joe isn’t the primary artist to alter their Diddy references. When Reneé Rapp introduced out Kesha throughout her Coachella set in April, she modified the lyrics to her 2010 tune “Tik Tok” from “Get up within the mornin’ feelin like P. Diddy” to “Get up within the mornin’ like f—ok P Diddy.” Maren Morris additionally omitted Diddy’s identify in her tune “Wealthy” throughout a efficiency on the Bourbon & Past music competition in Louisville, Kentucky in early September 2024.