Chloe Bailey has been criticized for her graphic sex scene in new drama, Swarm, just one month after her collaboration with convicted abuser Chris Brown drew backlash.
The singer, 24, shocked fans when her character Marissa engaged in a jaw-dropping sex scene with Damson Idris (who plays Marissa’s boyfriend Khalid) within the first few minutes of the first episode.
The scene saw Marissa’s sister Dre (Dominique Fishback) watch the pair from the door before Khalid sees her, winks and continues having sex with Marissa.
Fans quickly took to social media to berate Beyonce’s protegee for ‘making terrible decisions’ and potentially harming her career with the racy scene.
One follower wrote: ‘Where is a Chloe Bailey’s mentor pls??? She’s been making terrible decisions lately, she should have never done that sex scene in Swarm and I’m not even gonna go into her most recent collab with Chris Brown.
Oh dear; Chloe Bailey has been criticized for her graphic sex scene in new drama, Swarm, just one month after her collaboration with convicted abuser Chris Brown drew backlash (pictured last week)
The star plays Marissa in the show alongside onscreen sister Dominque Fishback, who plays Dre
Another wrote: ‘I get it it’s acting, but it’s unnecessary acting. Beyonce is her mentor and has NEVER done a scene like this. The scene wasn’t even relevant. These new movies and shows are genuinely doing too much for no good reason.’
One fan penned: ‘Swarm is insane & that random sex scene with Chloe Bailey was so pointless’.
Another referencing Halle Berry’s sex scene in Oscar-winner Monster’s Ball wrote: ‘Chloe Bailey pulled a Halle Berry for Swarm with zero f**ks given I ain’t even mad at her!’
Others came out in defense of Chloe, writing: ‘Why are some people acting like Chloe Bailey aka someone who literally has Beyoncé as a mentor would now be suffering in her career for doing a 10 second sex scene in a prestige drama made by an Emmy winner.
Another wrote: ‘The series swarm there’s a sex scene with Chloe Bailey in it and they’ve been slut shaming her because of it.’
Swarm is comedian/rapper Donald Glover’s first-ever TV series with Amazon Studios and it’s centered around Dre (Fishback), a young woman whose obsession with her favorite singer turns deadly.
Glover is not only the series creator, but he’s also credited as an executive producer and directed Swarm’s premiere episode.
The seven-part horror series premiered its entire first season on Friday. The Bad Guy singer portrays a cult leader named Eva, that manipulates her followers into dangerous behaviors through hypnosis.
Cast: The singer, 24, shocked fans when her character Marissa engaged in a jaw-dropping sex scene with Damson Idris (who plays Marissa’s boyfriend Khalid [pictured R last month) within the first few minutes of the first episode
Oh my: Fans quickly took to social media to berate Beyonce’s protegee for ‘making terrible decisions’ and potentially harming her career with the racy scene
The rest of the cast includes Damson Idris, Bryron Bowers, Kiersey Clemons, Paris Jackson, Rickey Thompson, Rory Culkin and X Mayo.
This comes after Bailey came under fire for her choice to record a song, titled How Does It Feel, with Chris Brown.
The outrage came immediately upon announcing the track as the second single off her upcoming debut album, In Pieces.
After teasing the track with Brown by sharing a photo of them sharing an intimate embrace on Thursday, fans of the singer, 24, unleashed their fury on social media as they begged her not to drop the track.
Many argued that collaborating with the Ayo hitmaker, 33, was a massive misstep in her career due to his long history of extreme violence against women, including his then-girlfriend Rihanna back in 2009.
In addition to giving his former partner a busted lip and painful black eye during a fight when she was 21, he most recently was accused of raping and drugging a woman aboard a yacht in 2020, which he has vehemently denied.
One Twitter user wrote on the short-form blogging platform: ‘Chloe bailey’s management has no idea who her target audience is and that’s why they make such poor decisions and have her all over the place.’
‘Chloe bailey making a song with Chris Brown in 2023, it’s like she’s afraid of success,’ another wrote.
A third fired: ‘Chloe Bailey makes it so hard to defend her girl WHY are you making music with an abuser.’
Defense: Others praised the star for her performance in the show
Outrage: Chloe came under fire last month for her choice to record a song, titled How Does It Feel, with Chris Brown
‘Chloe Bailey makes it so hard to defend her girl WHY are you making music with an abuser,’ one social media user fired
Come on: A fan of the five-time Grammy nominee tweeted to Bailey that ‘there’s still time to delete this’ so her followers could ‘pretend’ they ‘didn’t’ see it
Not okay: Award-Winning journalist, Ernest Owens, wrote: ‘We’re failing Black women in music if they feel like they have to collaborate with a known abuser in order to chart’
Not happy: The conesus on social media is that it is ‘disgusting’ that people are ‘giving this abusive p.o.s [piece of sh** attention’
A larger problem: Some reflected on ‘what exactly are all these female artists from Ciara , to Kelly Rowland, Normani and now Chloe Bailey trying to prove in propping up or working with Chris Brown’
Some reflected on ‘what exactly are all these female artists from Ciara , to Kelly Rowland, Normani and now Chloe Bailey trying to prove in propping up or working with Chris Brown.’
Award-Winning journalist, Ernest Owens, wrote: ‘We’re failing Black women in music if they feel like they have to collaborate with a known abuser in order to chart.’
The consesus on social media is that it is ‘disgusting’ that people are ‘giving this abusive p.o.s [piece of sh** attention.’
A fan of the five-time Grammy nominee tweeted to Bailey that ‘there’s still time to delete this’ so her followers could ‘pretend’ they ‘didn’t’ see it.
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