Message received, Igloo Australia: You and Britney Spears have not been engaged in a passive aggressive Twitter fight.
The very Earth quaked earlier this week when rapper Iggy Azalea tweeted a few completely innocent, not-at-all snarky messages that only appeared to blame Spears for the flop that was their would-be song of the summer, "Pretty Girls."
Azalea remarked that the song hadn't been promoted enough, which wasn't her fault -- "unfortunately im just featured [on it]" -- and that there was nothing wrong with her implicitly calling out Spears for not doing enough to sell the single. "I dont have to suck the womans asshole 24/7 to be her friend, do i? bye girls," Azalea tweeted on Monday.
Spears didn't respond explicitly to Azalea's comments. A day after Iggy's tweets, though, the veteran pop star did tweet, "Can’t wait to get back to Vegas. So thankful I have shows for the rest of the year to look forward to... #YouWantAPieceOfMe" -- which is obviously not a dig at Azalea's canceled arena tour, punctuated with the title of Spears' most adversarial song.
Nope. According to Azalea, there's nothing to see here. Her words and intent have simply been twisted by a bloodthirsty media eager to pit two female celebrities against each other... and "at the end of the day," the whole brouhaha will only give her and Britney "another thing for us to laugh at over lunch." Which they eat together all the time.
She went on a Twitter rant on Tuesday:
Iam honestly not surprised but still really saddened that the media is trying to create a "beef" between @britneyspears and myself.— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
We remain friends and i haven't said anything negative at all about her. Does wishing we had promoted a single more make me the bad guy?— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
i feel like the media wants women in music to get out and mud wrestle each other. As a woman i take great offense.— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
Women in the media should be able to have a grown up and subjective opinion without it being anything more than that. its disappointing.— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
No one is throwing "shade" or "shots" on either side of the table. The girl is my friend and i support her 100%.— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
i feel like the press just wants to see girls be overtly sexual to one another, and have no real opinion other than "i love it! ^.^"— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
Im over it. Women in music are not the same as a teen drama. Stop making us all out to be, we are business women & artists. Not mean girls.— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
And to all freelance bloggers: YOURE WELCOME. im back on twitter connecting with my fans; so you have tons to twist and get paid off again.— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
@ddior901 @BadAzzElmo the thing is, i didnt even say THAT. just said if we had more content to compete with other songs it would have had— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
@ddior901 @BadAzzElmo more of a shot to continue to do well, because it was received positively. but its hard without lots of promo.— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
@ddior901 @BadAzzElmo dude, all i know is brit has gone thru it with media and gets it. a big part of the reason we click is that.— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
@ddior901 @BadAzzElmo end of the day its just another thing for us to laugh at over lunch.— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) June 30, 2015
Spears has not publicly responded to Azalea's tweetstorm -- probably because she's still trying to decide whether to give Iggy the "Best Fri-" half or the "-Ends" half of the necklace she just bought.