Twitter, the micro-blogging and petty fight-starting service, is now home to yet another beef between two A-list musicians. This time the combatants were producer Calvin Harris and One Direction’s dearly departed Zayn Malik. It started innocently enough, when @zaynmalik retweeted a tweet from an account called @FemaleTexts that compared Taylor Swift’s crusade for streaming royalty rights to Miley Cyrus’ seemingly modest lifestyle and campaign to help homeless youths. “G statement,” Malik added in a follow up tweet.
Harris, who is currently dating Swift, was displeased. “You’ve made your money? Cool…f—k the 99% of musicians who depend on these services to survive right?” he tweeted in response to @FemaleTexts, adding Zayn too. “Yeah f—k em.”
Malik, 22, later shot back at Harris, saying he had “made an absolute fool of yourself mate” and suggested that the 31-year-old producer better “calm [his] knickers before them dentures fall out.”
“Oh and I write my own shit too dickhead,” Malik tweeted.
Harris, for his part, seemed amused, and wrote that he wasn’t personally attacking Malik, just the quote. The last word in the Twitter fight as of posting was either an attempt to make nice or top-tier shade from Harris: “Best of luck, genuinely. You’ve got a great voice.”
Read the entire exchange below, or maybe watch this unrelated video of some cute baby goats instead. Whichever you prefer.
the difference is astounding pic.twitter.com/5U9JHNT0Uk
— Bitch Problems (@FemaleTexts) August 13, 2015
G statement — zayn (@zaynmalik) August 17, 2015
@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
@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
@zaynmalik all good, it was the quote not you personally mate
— Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) August 17, 2015
@zaynmalik lol — Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) August 17, 2015
Oh and I write my own shit too dickhead
— zayn (@zaynmalik) August 17, 2015
@zaynmalik best of luck, genuinely. You’ve got a great voice — Calvin Harris (@CalvinHarris) August 17, 2015
