Kelly Clarkson’s Brooklyn Shop Feud Gets Its Security Footage, and It Has No Sound

A $15,000 mechanical bird, a Pretty Woman callout and a post Pablo Torre says passed 45 million views now have a new exhibit: the shop’s security footage. It doesn’t have any audio.

The feud began Saturday (Oct. 10), when Kelly Clarkson posted on X about Art of Play, a Brooklyn curiosity shop. She wrote that she had “just drove all the way to Brooklyn to check out this store I thought looked really rad” and “literally was looked at as if I couldn’t afford it and was told he could find something comparable for me,” per Rolling Stone. The shop replied that Molly, the singing-bird automaton she wanted, “is permanently attached to the wall and isn’t for sale.” Clarkson answered with a photo of a $15,000 price tag: “So you’re not only rude, you’re also a liar. Got it.”

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In an Instagram statement on Monday (Oct. 12), the shop said the $15,000 price referred to a nearly identical bird owned by its Seattle creator, Bliss Kolb, and that it offered to show her a $2,000 German-made singing bird before she left. “We really do wish her the best and hope that someday we can all laugh about this misunderstanding,” it wrote, per Billboard.

Then Torre obtained the tape. On Pablo Torre Finds Out on Tuesday (Oct. 13), he released footage that shows Clarkson browsing for about four minutes and 50 seconds, speaking with an employee near Molly and walking out, Complex reports. Her first X post came about 15 minutes later. “These cameras do not have audio,” Torre said, so the video can’t settle what was said. Watch it below.

The shop’s co-owner, Adam Rubin, says the fallout has been severe. The phone and email have been flooded with threatening messages, he told USA Today, per Rolling Stone. “We are afraid for the safety of our shopkeepers,” Rubin said. “Kelly Clarkson has put us in danger.” He also said the visit was “that undramatic” and that the shop wouldn’t have known of a problem without the posts. Torre said his team asked Clarkson’s representative for comment and hadn’t heard back when the episode aired.

Torre closed the loop in his own way. His show bought the $2,000 alternative birds Clarkson never saw, named them Julia and Robert, and plans to auction them for glioblastoma research through the Kira Fund.