‘So White People Can’t Sing Songs Now?: Miss Universe, ‘Human Barbie’ Lip Syncs N-word In Jay-Z Song In Viral Clip, Inspiring White Men to Race to Her Rescue

The new Miss Universe, Victoria Kjaer Theilvig, has a knack for courting controversy. The 21-year-old contestant from Denmark was crowned the winner of this year’s international pageant on Nov. 16 and has already found herself at the center of a storm. & The former Miss Denmark dropped the N-word in a TikTok video posted on Nov. 22 from the top of the Empire State Building in New York as she lip-synced to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind,” which includes the slur. Though the song is four and a half minutes long, Kjaer Theilvig homed in on that one specific lyric in her 14-second video. Wearing her Miss Universe crown and her official sash, Kjaer Theilvig can be seen mouthing the lyric, “N-word, I be spiked out, I could trip a referee, Tell by my attitude that I’m most definitely from New York.” New York