Singer slams Billboard over wrong article headline

Jordin Sparks has called out Billboard for promoting an interview they conducted with a headlining about her ex-boyfriend, Jason Derulo.

Billboard published a story online on Monday, August 24 with the headline, 'Jordin Sparks on the 'Pain and Confusion' From Her Breakup With Jason Derulo'.

She claimed while she discussed the split in the interview, most of her quotes are actually about her new album, which is her first in sex years.

The article is structured in a fill-in-the-blank format, with Sparks giving answers for queries like “my biggest comeback fear,” “my musical hero,” and “my most sentimental new song.” It’s only for the last one, “my rebound,” that Sparks alludes to Derulo, saying, ''People think that a celebrity breakup is different, and it is in the way that it’s public. But you still feel the same sort of pain and confusion. I just had to deal with it. And I played Big Sean’s ‘I Don’t F*ck With You’ multiple times a day!”

Sparks apparently felt that focusing on the part about Derulo misrepresented the entirety of her quotes, and she let Billboard know on Twitter, writing,

Billboard‘s online post notes that “this story originally appeared in the Aug. 29 issue of Billboard,” but it’s unclear if the print version was paired with a sensational headline as well.

The outlet has not responded to Spark’s tweet, nor has it changed the headline and tweet.