Kelly Clarkson's social media feud with Brooklyn boutique goes viral | What we know

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Weekend stop at a Brooklyn boutique has Kelly Clarkson
and the store's owners telling two very different stories.
The singer says an employee treated
her like she couldn't afford a pricey piece,
but the shop insists the item that she wanted was never for sale.
To begin with, neither side is giving in.
Right, Christopher, I don't know who really wins on something like this.
I don't think anybody. The beef, the drama. What's happening
in Brooklyn, Roe? We've got to talk to your peeps over there.
You know, Brooklyn, we got the attitude over there.
Apparently so, and they're not putting up with Kelly Clarkson.
As Ms. Clarkson, she's gone through this viral feud now
with this novelty store, Art of Play.
It's on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Bridge Park, right near there.
Now, sparked on Saturday, that's
when the singer took to Twitter all to complain about this experience.
She wrote, quote, I had a few things in mind to buy.
Literally was looking at,
I was being looked at as if I couldn't afford it.
Clarkson went on to tell her followers that she had
to go check out if they wanted to be treated
like Julia Roberts character in Pretty Woman
so she's not happy with the store she's referencing
the scene in which Julia Roberts character goes
into a high-end boutique and she's told to leave
by the clerks and that they feel that she can't afford anything
that's there but the post set off
a wave of criticism directed at the Art of Play
which has now responded on social media they're
sparring back and forth between the store
and Miss Clarkson the shop and the interaction that upset
Miss Clarkson though it appears to have started over
a musical bird automation a bit like a cuckoo
clock Rosanna right now the store wrote quote molly
is permanently attached to the wall and
isn't for sale it also said
however the negative experience that Kelly described on Twitter
would resonate with anyone
who has ever felt judged in a shop at Art of Play whether someone
comes in to make a purchase or simply look around
while they're equally welcome now they also went
on to add that it's been a surreal experience
to be the focus of such widespread outrage after just
one mention by a celebrity.
But that didn't satisfy Ms. Clarkson-Rosanna. She went on to
write this lengthy post. Apparently,
she's got some time on her hands and noted that right next
to the bird, there was a $15,000 price tag.
She thinks it was for sale. She says that the clerk
then told her that the cost would be something comparable.
They would have to find her a
comparable sort of creation, a little bird on the wall.
Now, Clarkson accused the store of lying
and being uncool in her words the last word
so far came in from Art of Play, all right this is
the latest update in the beef, they claim
that they explain that the bird is a permanent display
and that they offered to arrange Kelly to buy
an identical version from the artist that created it
but the shop also says that it offered
her a different singing automation that costs only
two thousand rather than fifteen thousand dollars
but they said uh that she didn't stick around long
enough to look at it so the store concluded
that when attempted working this out perhaps
privately. It wrote, quote, we reached out
to Kelly directly to try to clear the air. We really
do wish her the best and hope
that someday we can all laugh about this misunderstanding.
So I don't understand this. Me neither.
You know, it doesn't make sense. And my friend,
you know, John Pasquale, he knows Kelly Clarkson.
He says she's lovely. You know,
she does not have that kind of temperament.
Could have been maybe she was having a bad day. I don't
know but it seems a little crazy to be going over
a cuckoo clock like this seems a little cuckoo
right it seems a little cuckoo to be going cuckoo over
a cuckoo clock but apparently we know what
she's into maybe that she's into cuckoo clocks apparently
so now we know what Kelly Clarkson's
getting for Christmas
