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Tems is clapping back at the haters over her wardrobe choice.

Social media users criticized the musician over her outlandish wardrobe for the 2023 Oscars, which included an abstract white veil which flowed around her head in a large cloud.

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Imagine waiting your whole life to be at the Oscars and you end up sitting behind a stratus cloud. pic.twitter.com/HQ8lSYQBUV

— Jarrett Bellini (@JarrettBellini) March 13, 2023

The singer-songwriter was part of the team behind “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” track “Lift Me Up”, which was being performed at the show Sunday night.

In a tongue-in-cheek reference the complaints around her large wardrobe, Tems shared a photoshoot of her outfit with the caption, “Oops.”

Oops. pic.twitter.com/en3XjAamhI

— Tems (@temsbaby) March 13, 2023

She shared the same photos to her Instagram with a similar caption, “Uh Ohh!”

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An eye-catching fashion choice is not sitting well with some Oscar watchers.

On Sunday night, 27-year-old singer-songwriter Tems attended the Academy Awards, where she was nominated Best Original Song.

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She was nominated alongside Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson for their song “Lift Me Up”, from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”.

But while her nomination was a big deal, it was her outfit that got all the attention.

Tems arrived on the red carpet wearing a white gown designed by Lever Couture, with a notably large white lace headpiece.

Posing for photos, the dress was a stunner, but inside the auditorium, viewers were a bit concerned the headpiece may have been too big.

As some on Twitter pointed out, the headpiece appeared to be causing problems for the people sitting nearby, including a man sitting next to her,...

Black women taking up space is always something that large-scale industry awards shows like the Oscars could use infinitely more of. They might not be properly recognized across the board as winners or nominees this year, but Academy Award-nominee Tems attended the ceremony in a lush white gown from Lever Couture with a particularly obstructive headpiece – taking up space in a much more literal sense.

During every awards season, without fail, the famous clip from Issa Rae’s 2017 Emmys red carpet interview makes its rounds on social media, declaring: “I’m rooting for everybody Black.

“Cocked and Loaded” is a) the name of Andrew Dice Clay’s breakthrough 1992 tour, the one for which he wore his soon-to-be-signature huge-collared leather jacket; b) a 2006 album by the industrial metal band Revolting Cocks; c) a malaprop for the actual military phrase “lock and load”; and d) the latest Twitter fodder all but gift-wrapped by President Donald Trump for pundits, comics and pickers of low-hanging social media fruit.

Or e) all of the above. Ding ding ding.

This morning, Trump used the bizarre, probably mistaken, certainly mangled, wording in a series of tweets that attempted to explain his last-second decision to halt an air strike against Iran in retaliation for shooting down one of our drones this week.

The four-tweet string, beginning with a swipe at Barack Obama (see the tweets below), read, in part: “On Monday [Iran] shot down an unmanned drone flying in International Waters. We were cocked...