JoJo Siwa Wears ‘Karma’s a Bitch’ Shirt on ‘Dance Moms: The Reunion’ Carpet

JoJo Siwa is selling her new single in model!

The 20-year-old rising pop star attended Lifetime’s Dance Moms: The Reunion premiere in New York City on Thursday, April 25, sporting a customized design.

Posing for photos on the occasion, Siwa modeled a sleeveless white T-shirt with the phrase “Karma’s a Bitch” on the again. The saying borrows lyrics from her newest tune, “Karma.”

The Lifetime expertise spoke solely to PEOPLE on the purple carpet, the place she says she and her mother give you her artistic seems. 

“I decide what I want to wear and then she embellishes. This is actually my merch. Get it at JoJoSiwa.com. It’s my ‘Karma’ merch,” Siwa says. 

Along with the customized bedazzled prime, she additionally rocked pink, silver, and black gloves ,which gave her some main bling.  

“These gloves were a very wise choice. That’ll make sense one day. And yeah, the rest of it, these shorts were actually one of my boy dancers in ‘Karma.’ So they have a little penis pouch, but we’re just ignoring that,” Siwa tells PEOPLE. 

The official music video for her tune “Karma” was launched simply two weeks in the past.

Speaking to PEOPLE on the 2024 GLAAD Awards on March 14, Siwa stated that followers would quickly be capable to see her in a manner that they “have not seen from me before.”

“I’ve seen people before me make this transition, I’ve seen how much I loved it, and I’ve seen also how much the world has criticized us, so I am ready for that. One thing that I think no one’s done is given the heads-up,” she stated of her new revealing facet. 

Siwa, who was launched to many as a toddler star, took a brand new path from her ordinary shiny and bubbly persona for her “Karma” video — which reveals her in a mixture of darkish bedazzled make-up and cut-out outfits. 

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“Whoa! I want to be on that boat. I thought it was absolutely amazing,” her former dance trainer and Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller stated of the music video. “I’m going to watch it over and over and over again. I’m sure that’s what Jojo is counting on — that everyone is just going to watch it [repeatedly].” 

After sporting certainly one of her seems, which has a placing resemblance to any member of KISS, to the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards, Gene Simmons got here to her protection.

“JoJo is cool,” the 74-year-old rock legend informed TMZ. “Anybody who doesn’t get it’s simply jealous, interval.”