He’ll be who? Joe Jonas simply modified up a well-known lyric in his track “Cake By The Ocean.” Followers of the Jonas Brothers observed that he purposefully skipped it over amid the document 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 interact in prostitution. He pleaded not responsible to all prices and was refused bail. Allegations in opposition to the Unhealthy Boy Information CEO date again greater than a decade, however as extra proof got here out about his conduct, many celebrities have chosen to omit references to him.
Joe Jonas and his band DNCE launched the track “Cake by the Ocean” on September 18, 2015, and the track 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 track 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 exchange 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 a substitute of Diddy in reference to actress Naomi Watts. Different followers imagine 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 track. Even after Diddy’s arrest, Joe appeared to nonetheless sing the Diddy line in his concert events in London and Vienna the week earlier than.
Joe isn’t the primary artist to vary their Diddy references. When Reneé Rapp introduced out Kesha throughout her Coachella set in April, she modified the lyrics to her 2010 track “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 track “Wealthy” throughout a efficiency on the Bourbon & Past music pageant in Louisville, Kentucky in early September 2024.
