Alison Wonderland & More Trash Ultra Music Festival DJ Set By KFC’s Colonel Sanders

The dance music world is up in arms about one particular DJ set at this year’s instalment of Ultra Music Festival in Miami.
Fried chicken juggernaut KFC bought a DJ slot for “Colonel Sanders” to perform on the EDM extravaganza’s main stage on Friday night, we sh*t you not.
A DJ wearing a helmet with the Colonel’s face performed an incredibly awkward set on the festival’s opening night…

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.@KFC bought Colonel Sanders a slot on the @Ultra main stage, and this happened. | : @1001TLtv pic.twitter.com/8qZfUZ7G4K
— Festive Owl (@TheFestiveOwl) March 29, 2019

…and it triggered a storm of cringe reacts across the online music community.
“This @kfc colonel sanders Djing at @ultra is lame,” wrote Marshmello in a since-deleted tweet. “I can think of a lot of other artists that actually deserve to be on that stage instead.”
Australia’s own Alison Wonderland has also weighed in, calling the move “tacky”:

this made me feel so awkward watching :/// wtf is this cringe. Ur right. There are some of the most amazing up and coming artists who should be seen and who deserve to be seen. Yuk.
— ALISON WONDERLAND (@awonderland) March 30, 2019

Nah. It’s tacky. They could have found a better way that doesn’t cheapen what we do
— ALISON WONDERLAND (@awonderland) March 30, 2019

Read some other ~zingers~ from the DJ world below.
Meanwhile, people have also been referring to Ultra 2019 as #FyreFestival2 after organisers provided just 200 buses to take more than 50,000 fans home from the island of Virginia Key to Miami, leading to 30K people doing a 5km walk back to mainland.

The biggest mistake KFC made was to not have the Colonel wearing a bucket on his head.
— Alex Metric (@Alexmetric) March 30, 2019

I don’t want people to overlook the countless hours of work Colonel Sanders has put in the studio
Dreams aren’t made overnight guys
— VALENTINO KHAN (@ValentinoKhan) March 30, 2019

If you think the KFC thing is any different than the way most everything works in the music industry now.. well I’ve got news for you….
— Hunter Siegel ;( (@HunterSiegel) March 30, 2019

And for dessert…a single marshmello…cheapskates
— SHAUN FRANK (@Shaun_Frank) March 30, 2019

kfc & ultra woulda gotten way less heat (and more success) if they just made a helmet that looked like a piece of fried chicken and named the dj “fryd chiken”
this method has been tested & works already. sending colonel sanders was too ballsy.
— josh pan (@joshpan) March 30, 2019

Just because people are talking about your product doesn’t make it any better! KFC still selling your ass a three day old fried thigh.
— ???????????????????????? (@Zomboy) March 30, 2019

This KFC ultra thing is so weird but low-key proves that if you have money and a mask, you too can be a superstar DJ
— Modestep (@Modestep) March 30, 2019

i heard a Crispy Chicken Wing produced it. sent it to Mashed Potatoes for mastering though
— Ruely (@ruelytunes) March 30, 2019

.@kfc collab bro?
— Dimitri Vangelis (@DimitriVangelis) March 30, 2019

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