Avicii Calls Deadmau5 'The Biggest Dick In Electronic Music' In Online Pissing Contest

It's been a week of high-profile feuding for Swedish DJ Avicii as he shifts his sights from ex-Oasis member Noel Gallagher towards contemporary Deadmau5 after the Canadian prog-house luminary called out "CD playing dipshits" on his blog earlier this week, resulting in a social-media sniping match that has seen Avicii slam Deadmau5 as "the biggest dick in electronic music".

Ironically, the blog post by Deadmau5 — real name Joel Zimmerman — was itself intended as a response, at least partially, to Gallagher's dismissal of T In The Park festival-mate Avicii (aka Tim Bergling) without having even heard (anything about) him, in a larger scathing takedown of what he sees as lazy DJs.

The post is a lengthy one, beginning with a hypothetical scenario following a DJ's rise to the top, at which point Deadmau5 takes a corner for the withering.

"alright, so by now everyone in US/CAN/EU knows your fucking name…. your headlining this and that…. you show up to X shitfest, and play a CD," he wrote.

"STOP.

"I AM CONFUSED. are you or are you not a guy who can use a comupter to make music? because youre making in upwards of 200K to play a fucking CD…. so… wait. why?

"With all the resources you have attained in the past X years of getting to where you are now…. WOULD IT FUCKING KILL YOU, to be able to add some sort of modularity, performance, showmanship BEYOND putting a fist in the air, telling people to make noise, and or playing the top line on an invisible keyboard in the air to show the crowd 'HEY! EVERYONE! THIS LEAD GOES HERE! WATCH MY HAND. IT GOES DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT'

"So with an inexhaustable amount of income from all the good fine folk who gave you way too much money to be up there…. you couldnt even be fucked to plug in a keyboard to play 4 fucking notes from time to time?"

It goes on like that for a while.

Somewhere along the line, for some reason, Avicii decided that Deadmau5 was referring to him specifically in a long-ass post that doesn't directly mention him once, but OK.

So, as he did with Gallagher, the Swede threw out the backhanded olive branch on Instagram, saying he would "welcome your technical input" and "gladly help you learn the piano and all the melodic musical stuff" (Deadmau5 mentions in his post that he cannot play the piano) and using some pretty unsettling imagery involving his creative juices while generally making his CD-playing lifestyle sound like daisies and roses on the always-perfect island of Ibiza, the jerk.

 

(Edit: Heres Joels post - google it) https://news.beatport.com/deadmau5-attacks-avicii-and-other-cd-playing-dipshits/ Hey Mau5 (@deadmau5)! I get your frustration, I struggle daily in an attempt to push the envelope musically and strive with my team to bring more innovative and creative elements to everything I'm doing, both in the studio and for live stuff... Id welcome your technical input and Id gladly help you learn the piano and all the melodic musical stuff... Come over to Ibiza and join me, Id love for you to sample some of my creative juices... Its tasty stuff... Really.. Stop all the hate brother.. If you need a friend, Im here for you!! PS: You know whats more annoying than "EDM"? People moaning about EDM.

A photo posted by Avicii (@avicii) on Jul 31, 2015 at 2:06pm PDT

From there, the saga moved to Twitter:

Thanks avichi for your valuable input and expertise, even if nobody asked you a fucking thing. Pick a twit beef with someone on your level.

— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) July 31, 2015

.@deadmau5 if i wouldve picked someone my own level bro trust me it wouldnt be you - "own my ass" back mr troll please... #tiresome

— Tim Bergling (@Avicii) July 31, 2015

im more interesed on learning how to recreationally pop 30 painkillers a day and still be able to make shit memes.

— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) July 31, 2015

yeah. teach me piano. thanks there, fuckin... libbarache. pic.twitter.com/QDRCi5V6kP

— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) July 31, 2015

imma go outside and do outside things and try to tire myself out. i have to play edm at an edm show tomorrow.

— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) July 31, 2015

this: noel sed djs suck, i sorta agreed n said CD players at festivals suck, avichi got butthurt and provided zero. https://t.co/u4FGYnJiFU

— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) July 31, 2015

the only difference between me and aviccii is that he just looks like hes high on crack, whereas i actually am.

— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) July 31, 2015

 

@deadmau5 keep mispelling my name on purpose you pretentious fuck. Internally ur the biggest dick in electronic music=no one fn likes you/lookin at you

A video posted by Avicii (@avicii) on Jul 31, 2015 at 5:46pm PDT

@deadmau5 I wish i was as clever as you mr mouse/rat :). When the cat is gigging the mice are dancing on the table.

— Tim Bergling (@Avicii) August 1, 2015

Yup, aivci is mad. pic.twitter.com/po5A22zE6G

— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) August 1, 2015

Wait.. @avvichii what do you mean "internally, I'm the biggest dick..." you mean there's more than one dick in you?

— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) August 1, 2015

That's pretty much where the beef is right now, so if you're truly invested in how this pans out you can keep an eye on their Twitter and Instagram feeds but realistically this will probably go on for some time.

These people are highly paid, professional musicians both over the age of 25, by the way. Just felt like that bore mentioning in all of this.