an interview with the BBC<\/a> published on Wednesday, Nov. 12, the six-piece band \u2014 Sophia Laforteza, Manon Bannerman, Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj, Megan Skiendiel and Yoonchae Jeung \u2014revealed how challenging it can be to navigate “death threats” amid their rise to fame.\n<\/p>\n “No human is supposed to receive that much feedback on something that they’ve created, and so we’re learning to do what we want, work as hard as we can, know that we just did something we love and try to stay off of that and not have that be our validation or the reason why we do what we do,” said Laforteza, 22.\n<\/p>\n
KATSEYE in 2025.<\/p>\n
BBC News\/YouTube<\/p>\n
Raj, 20, then noted that the online commentary can get “really heavy.”\n<\/p>\n
“I think as time goes on and on, the stakes just get higher and higher and pressure from 360 all sides becomes more heavy and intense,” she said. “I try to tell myself sometimes, and I’m like, ‘it doesn’t matter and what people say doesn’t matter,’ but we’re humans.”\n<\/p>\n
Raj continued: “And if 1,000 people are, like, sending you death threats, it’s, like, jarring. Even if it’s not gonna happen, and it doesn’t mean anything, it’s heavy, and it’s jarring.”\n<\/p>\n
Laforteza, Raj and Bannerman, 23, then noted that despite their career being “short,” they’ve received online hate toward not only them but their families and friends.\n<\/p>\n
Lara Raj, Yoonchae Jeung, Megan Jeung, Manon Bannerman, Daniela Jeung and Sophia Laforteza of KATSEYE in August 2025 in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Barry Brecheisen\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s something that we know we signed up for, being so public and just being out there for people…they know so much about us,” said Laforteza.\n<\/p>\n
While she acknowledged that “it’s a part of our job and we know it’s a part of fame,” it doesn’t change the fact that “we are human and we can have that.”<\/p>\n
She noted that a lot of people “don’t see celebrities that way.”\n<\/p>\n
Raj then added that it’s been “the most valuable, beautiful gift” having her fellow bandmates understand what each other is going through.\n<\/p>\n
KATSEYE \u2014 who were nominated for Best New Artist and Best Pop Duo\/Group Performance at the 2026 Grammy Awards<\/a> \u2014 are set to kick off their Beautiful Chaos tour on Saturday, Nov. 15 in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW KATSEYE spoke out about the “thousands” of death threats they’ve receivedIn an interview with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-287926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}