R&B singer Omarion is bored with getting confused for Omicron variant

“Omicron,” the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, might not be probably the most acquainted phrase to those that do not converse Greek. So now that it is the identify of the newest coronavirus variant, some confusion is to be anticipated. However R&B musician Omarion needs it identified: His identify might start with an “Om” and finish with an “on,” however he is obtained nothing to do with the virus.

“Hello, that is Omarion. I’m an artist, not a variant,” he says in a TikTok video posted Jan. 1. “So please bear in mind that in case you simply so occur to run into me on the road, you do not have to isolate for 5 days.”

He additionally made a video for New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve the place he jokes that his attorneys made him learn an announcement noting he’s not the virus variant.

“The final time I had to do that was in 2000 when everybody confused Y2K with B2K,” he says, referring to his position as lead singer for the boy band B2K, which stands for “Boys of the New Millennium.”

He is additionally modified his TikTok biography to learn, “Omarion the Entertainer not the variant.”

And whereas he did not cite any particular situations of his identify getting confused with the virus, he made two extra movies concerning the mixup. “Whereas it is vital to not contact me and maintain your distance, trigger you already know that is the way it’s presupposed to be, you do not want a unfavorable take a look at to bounce to my music,” he says in a single. 

Take coronary heart, Omarion. Early within the coronavirus pandemic, it appeared sure Corona beer gross sales would undergo as a result of identify affiliation. However CBS stories that after a slight dip in gross sales within the early summer season of 2020, gross sales of Corona beer really rose.