14 DAY TRIAL // Iggy Azalea is officially back on Twitter after a few months of self-imposed hiatus. She’s very unhappy with reports that she “blamed” Britney Spears for their collaboration “Pretty Girls” flopping in the charts, but a new report indicates that trouble was obvious a while before the single release.
You can listen to the track and check out the official music video below. Despite getting massive exposure, it failed to burn up the charts like it was expected to, and Iggy said in a Twitter Q&A that Britney should have promoted it more. Because she didn’t, the flop was on her.
Iggy was a diva on set
Us Weekly says that, even though she’s quick to blame Britney for the flop, Iggy did nothing to make sure the single got the best chance in the charts upon release. If anything, she seemed to be working against Britney since day 1.
That became even more apparent when shooting for the video started and Iggy walked on set as if she was the boss calling all the shots.
“Iggy was difficult with respect to direction of [the] video,” a spy says for the publication. “Everyone just got fed up and didn’t want to deal with it. Britney, being a veteran artist, was tired of arguing. ‘Pretty Girls’ was Britney’s song and video but Iggy totally took it over as if it was hers. Iggy ordered everyone - including Britney - around as if she was directing the video.”
The report says she even decided she would be the one to pick the artwork, instead of making this a joint decision, as it was natural since both she and Britney were credited equally on the track.
Shame on you, media!
There is very little misunderstanding possible with Iggy’s answer on how Britney could have done more promotion for the track and how she’s not to be expected to kiss her you-know-what all the time. Still, she insists this is what happened, and she blames the media for it.
In a new Twitter rant, the rapper says that the media is trying to make this into a “feud” only because of the mistaken idea that 2 women can’t get along.
So instead of admitting that she might have spoken out of turn or got a bit too carried away, Iggy jumps on the faux-feminist bandwagon and points the finger at everybody else, when it was her who talked herself into trouble in the first place.
Then again, this is a white, Australian, middle-class woman posing as a black rapper from the US, claiming whoever says she’s a poser to her face does it because they hate her “because she’s a woman.” What else should we expect from her?
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
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