Boy George’s Moulin Rouge co-star calls him ‘terrible performer’ after pro-Israel song
Boy George’s Moulin Rogue co-star Patrick Clanton called him out (Getty Images | Instagram/patrickclanton)
Boy George has been called out by his Moulin Rouge co-star, Patrick Clanton, following the release of the former’s new pro-Israel song.
Released on 26 July, the Culture Club frontman’s new reggae song, ‘We Will Dance Again’, begins: “You say genocide / I say war / When you’re attacked / That’s what the army is for / Does it get ugly? / You bet it does / When I know you want to kill / Every last one of us…”
“The song was created using AI,” Boy George confirmed on Threads on 28 July. “I call it ‘AI for good’. Truthfully, I would struggle to write this with a human!”
On 28 July, Clanton shared a screenshot to his Instagram stories showing an AV Club article with the headline: ‘Boy George says his genocide-denying song was created with AI’.
The actor added his own caption, writing: “Y’know, I used to defend his performance in our show, but f*** it. He was a terrible performer and I was embarrassed to be in the show with him. Boy, Bye!”
He then shared a second story to elaborate. “Whenever people would ask about him I’d just say, ‘He was really nice!’” he wrote. “But as Sondheim taught us, ‘Nice is different than good.’” The Sondheim quote is a reference to a lyric from ‘I Know Things Now’, a song from ‘Into the Woods’.
Boy George and Clanton starred alongside each other during a recent Broadway run of Moulin Rouge, the stage version of Baz Luhrmann’s Academy Award-winning film of the same name.
Clanton isn’t the only one criticising Boy George’s new song, with many people online calling the singer out for denying the genocide in Gaza, after it was labelled as such by the UN.
On June 23, a United Nations independent commission declared that Israel is committing “genocide” and “atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children”.
“The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, the chair of the commission.
“Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the protection owed to Palestinian children under international law.”
