Oh to be young and famous and entertain yourself by squabbling on Twitter.
Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Calvin Harris stuck up for his lady love and all the struggling musicians out there after former One Direction member Zayn Malik retweeted an account (the original tweet was from the handle @FemaleTexts, which has since been deleted, however the same tweet has been reproduced by a number of other accounts) that highlighted the differences between Swift and Miley Cyrus when it came to making money.
Those differences being that Swift wants to be paid for her work, while Cyrus seems to have suddenly decided she’s made all the money she could possibly need and said that she would release her next album for free.
the difference is astounding pic.twitter.com/bylnsemUcR
— ﾓ ｿ (@MileysKoi) August 12, 2015
Harris saw the tweet, or more accurately the retweet, as a dig at Swift and rushed to defend his sweetheart:
@FemaleTexts @zaynmalik You’ve made your money? Cool…fuck the 99% of musicians who depend on these services to survive right? Yeah fuck em
— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) August 17, 2015
If u don’t get what it means when a successful artist uses their celebrity to benefit every other musician and songwriter in the industry…
— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) August 17, 2015
…stay out my fuckin mentions pls
— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) August 17, 2015
While u kids are refresh voting teen choice awards there’s some poor fucker in a basement making your new favorite record trying to survive
— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) August 17, 2015
Meaning…stay out of things you don’t understand
— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) August 17, 2015
And because no one ever backs down from the opportunity to get in an argument on Twitter, Malik, 22, responded, of course:
@CalvinHarris ha you just made an absolute fool of yourself mate
— zayn (@zaynmalik) August 17, 2015
@CalvinHarris you clearly didn’t understand what I just said either
— zayn (@zaynmalik) August 17, 2015
@CalvinHarris so i suggest you calm your knickers before them dentures fall out
— zayn (@zaynmalik) August 17, 2015
Oh and I write my own shit too dickhead
— zayn (@zaynmalik) August 17, 2015
Harris seemed amused by Malik’s tweets and responded, “lol,” to his suggestion that he calm his knickers. The 31-year-old producer appeared to issue an apology to the former boy band member, writing, “@zaynmalik all good, it was the quote not you personally mate,” but then he quickly followed up with this tweet, leading us to believe none of it was that sincere:
@zaynmalik best of luck, genuinely. You’ve got a great voice
— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) August 17, 2015
So who won? Does it even matter? No. The answer is no.
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