JoJo Siwa doubles down on her plan to invent 'gay pop' as an 'official genre' ... trends now JoJo Siwa has doubled down on her plan to invent 'gay pop' as 'an official genre of music' - after previously walking back her controversial remarks. The 20-year-old Dance Moms alum ignited a furor earlier this month when she said she 'wanted to start a new genre of music' called 'gay pop.' Social media erupted with outrage, as JoJo's detractors pointed out that many gay artists have created pop music before she did. The singer backpedaled, telling TMZ: 'I definitely am not the inventor of gay pop,' but adding that she hoped to 'be a piece in making it bigger than it already is.' Now, she has gone on the SiriusXM show Hits 1 Miami With Mack & Jen and declared she wants to establish 'gay pop' as a separate category of music. JoJo Siwa has doubled down on her plan to invent 'gay pop' as 'an official genre of music' - after previously walking back her controversial remarks 'So, here's the thing. Gay pop, right, is a thing that people have done, but it is not an official genre of music. You know what I mean?' she said. 'It is a style, but it is how there's rap, there's rock, there's R&B, there's pop. Gay pop is not an official genre of music. If you look on the iTunes charts, there is no - there's a pop chart,' argued JoJo, who hails from Omaha. 'Gay pop,' to her, should be a distinct genre: 'Not just like: "Oh, I'm a gay pop artist." Yes, there's so many gay pop artists,' she allowed. 'Oh my God. There's so many, but I think that those gay pop artists do deserve a bigger home than what they have right now,' said JoJo. She felt her past comments were interpreted unfairly, joking: 'I could say I want world peace, and everyone would be like: "How dare you want peace for the world?"' The former child star reflected: 'People ask me all the time, they're like: "Do you feel like you have to be very careful about what you say?" I'm like: "No, because no matter what I say, it's going down anyways."' JoJo first set off her 'gay pop' controversy while promoting her ribald new Karma music video, which shows her indulging in a lesbian romp. 'When I first signed with Columbia, I said I wanted to start a new genre of music,' she said in an interview with Billboard. 'They said: "What do you mean?", and I said: "It's called 'gay pop'. It's like K-pop but it's gay pop."' JoJo first set off her 'gay pop' controversy while promoting her ribald new Karma music video, which shows her indulging in a lesbian romp