Celebrity twitter feuds are growing in popularity and can be sometimes overly hilarious or very dangerous!
Last Sunday, Soca Queens Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez and Destra Garcia were caught in a heated debate over a “retweet.”
Destra can easily be considered the retweet queen; she is known for always retweeting her fans on a daily basis. Destra, who along with Fay-Ann, performed in Barbados the night before (Saturday, July 7, 2012) at the “Outrageous in Red” concert received praises and shoutouts from that event and wasted no time in retweeting…
…until she retweeted this:
Derryn Donaghey @DerrynDonaghey
@trinighyul @destragarcia kind lady, can’t believe Faye-Ann was given more road march wins than her. She and Marshall are the best ever!
A tweet that clearly rattled Fay-Ann, who then tweet responded:
Fay-Ann Lyons @fayannlyons
@DerrynDonaghey @trinighyul @destragarcia not given sweetie!! EARNED!! There is a difference learn it! Besides like yal forgot who daddy IS!
Fay-Ann then went in on Destra alluding to the importance of what is worthy of a retweet and what is not. Fay’s stance was all the fuel Destra’s passionate fans needed to ignite twitter fire.
One fan even thought it fit to create an account called “Destradaughter” to spit fire at Fay-Ann. Destra has since alleged that she had no idea who the individual was and after her brief silence during one part of the twitter beef, came back to calm “Destradaughter” down.
She tweeted:
DESTRA @DestraGarcia
@Destradaughter I may not agree with all u said, but Ty for caring. I love u and appreciate u. You made your point now Let’s all move on.
Though after the fact, Destra “tried” to calm the storm she initially created, things could all been avoided if she had not played into the drama of her fans to cause more discord against a fellow Soca artiste.
And don’t think that it was just about the retweet.
Destra allowed her fans to say that “red skin” people were better than “black people.” One of her fans even called black folks “black bitches” an obvious reference to Fay-Ann’s skin tone. The drama even escalated to Destra’s fan even alluding to black people who attend Junior Sec schools as being unintelligent and not of wholesome character, another shot to Fay-Ann, whom responded that she attended a 7 year high school but that this was uncalled for, especially since many local students had just gotten S.E.A. results for the high school they were attending.
For Fay, Destra’s fan to state such an asinine statement on twitter, could cause a lot of harm to some young fans and their psyche over the schools they were soon to attend.
Even our own Jay Blessed chimed in on her fanpage about the situation:
As much as I want to comment and add missing parts (like the race skin color card being pulled and the discussion of JrSec vs Convent Education) to the Destra and Fay-Ann twitter nonsense started by fans yesterday, I will not. But what I will say is we women already have to deal with so much nonsense as it is. Please do not allow yourself to be a puppet or pawn. Effective communication can prevent many an unnecessary fall out or beef. And if it cannot be rectified….just ignore and more on nah! Retweeting BS to fan more flames equals to one virtually digging a bigger hole for themselves!
Was Destra’s retweet just a simple retweet, was it hype for her upcoming video or was it a confirmation on how she really feels? And did Fay-Ann over-react, should she have left it alone or was she forced to stand her ground?
We hope these two ladies would work things out and encourage peace amongst their fans but we would actually like to see or hear them both in one interview to get to the bottom all this tension…….SOMEBODY SET UP DE TING NAH!
-Shemmy
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July 11, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Sad hope they make this up that is just silly talking about skin tone in the eyes of the world they are 2 black women,,..They are both talented entertainers in their own right..My personal take is that for women it’s already super hard in the industry, with the men like vulchers they don’t care they will eat yuh alive if they can……..save allyuh energy is bigger fish to fry with the men in the industry who vying for the same fame you have, Women in life we fight each other down to the end is a lose lose situation ,we could never win, Cause yuh still have to watch your back with the men, it’s much more of them singing soca than their are women. Don’t waste time fighting each other,, enjoy your fame make sweet music and enjoy!! I love you both as artistes…PS BOTH EQUALLY BEAUTIFUL..!
July 11, 2012 at 2:25 pm
You are both Excellent entertainers..and Beautiful black women ,that is the way the world sees you ! Don’t get caught up with that crap, With so many men in your industry you guys definitely have to work soo much harder as women in thiis music business,.. Lot;s of young girls look up to you all SO don’t go there feeding in on sickos who want to play the skin shade cards it is silly and you have your reputations that you both worked hard for, you all are intelligent ladies and I am sure you guys will rectify things …Ladies Peace & Love ! PS LOVE YOU BOTH AS ARTISTES !
July 13, 2012 at 11:00 pm
It sure is funny what Jay Blessed has to say when she has been one to allow her readers to be disgustingly inappropriate when referring to another female in the entertainment industry on one of her blogs. Didn’t Jay Bless refuse to remove those comments claiming people were entitled to their opinion. Funny, sounds like you are choosing sides now.
It is definitely a shame if Destra did not address her fan(s) who made those ridiculously ignorant statements. But more importantly, why are we giving credence to such insignificant things.
When will I read about entertainers doing charity work? Or simply doing something positive? Is that not juicy enough for you?
July 14, 2012 at 4:57 pm
Dearest Nalo….how am I choosing sides?
Furthermore, despite the numerous charitable stories I have published, you have yet to comment on any one of them, yet the “gossip” that piqued your interest, you quickly dove in here to voice your opinion ON.
Now I thank you for taking time to read the blog, but you can simply search the word “CHARITY” on the site to see the NUMEROUS stories on our Caribbean celebs doing excellent things.
But be honest, that’s not want you really want to read….no….you want to read the piece you just commented on.
The charitable pieces NEVER get your attention because if they did, you would not have made such an ignorant statement.
Despite it being bold at the top of the site, I will reiterate for you, just in case you missed it.
JAYBLESSED.com _ #1 Daily Source for Caribbean Entertainment News and GOSSIP!
Have a nice day!
July 14, 2012 at 9:53 pm
Dear Jay,
I am entitled to my opinion and it remains that your comment on the Destra/Fay Ann beef seemed somewhat hypocritical since you are guilty of condoning the same actions that Destra is accused of. And at that time you defended your actions. How can you say one thing yet do another? It appears that you believe that Destra is wrong for allowing fans to make whatever derogatory comments were made on twitter. Hence, you have chosen a side.
Having said that, please do not ever presume you know what I read or would prefer to read. I took your advice and searched your site and found not one article that discussed a female soca artiste (or any soca artiste) doing charity work. I happen to know that quite a few entertainers do charity work that is completely independent of them preforming. You should find out. People may want to read about it or do you also presume that all your readers only enjoy drama? Hmmmm…
Lastly my dear, self praise is no praise at all. Not because YOU say that you are the #1 source for Caribbean news and entertainment means you truly are. Where is your evidence? Have you been nominated or won an award that allows you to make such a claim? Of course not. So don’t praise yourself and throw that statement around as if it can be validated. It has no bearing on the comment I made and added absolutely no value to your response.
I will keep reading and I hope you do the same.