14 DAY TRIAL // Australian rapper Iggy Azalea will fight with anyone on social media, even with a comic book movie site that says that she’s the worst thing to have happened to music. Though she recently went on a self-imposed Twitter hiatus, Iggy is back online and her latest spat is already making headlines.
This time, she’s not defending herself from accusations of cultural appropriation through her music: she’s bragging that she’s made millions already, so whoever has something bad to say about her only has to look at their own bank account to be shut up for good.
Iggy Azalea won’t stand for jokes at her expense
It all started with a seemingly random tweet from Superhero Feed, which read that “The Last Airbender” was “to movies what Iggy Azaelia is to music,” which was just a polite way of saying Iggy was a curse, even in the context of the poor quality of current pop music.
You will see in the tweets below that Iggy wasn’t tagged in the post, which means that she came across it some other way than by a usual notification. She didn’t mind that they’d gotten her name wrong, but she thought such a “joke” was only funny to middle-aged men who still spent their time reading comic books.
Because, in Iggy’s book, a grown and well educated man or woman can’t possibly read them, or enjoy the movies based on them.
Superhero Feed didn’t miss a beat in their response: even if the joke wasn’t funny, at least they’d written it. Iggy claims credit for all her music, but rumor has it that she’s using a ghostwriter much like the majority of pop stars today.
Iggy is selling the image of a rapper, but she’s as much a product of the pop machine as Britney Spears is. She is not original and she is not even responsible for the stuff that comes out with her name on it, it is being said.
Naturally, she was even more offended by the implication, and she tweeted back something along the lines of “yes, that may very well be the case but I’m laughing all the way to the bank, sucker!”
A long history of Twitter feuds
As noted above, Iggy will fight with anyone who dares say something negative about her on Twitter, provided she’s in the mood to spare some time to write a couple of 140-word messages.
However, her most publicized feuds are with rapper Azealia Banks, who is one of the loudest voices to accuse her of cultural appropriation. Here’s the gist with Iggy, as per Azealia: she’s a white woman from a middle-class family in Australia, who came to the US to become a pop star.
When that didn’t pan out, she agreed to have a team of people reinvent her, and she emerged as a rapper. Though she’s white and she has nothing in common with (or no idea of) the reality of being a black woman in the US, she uses the voice of one in her songs.
She’s a poser of the worst kind. If you kept an eye on the stuff Iggy and Azealia have thrown at each other in recent months, you probably recall that Iggy used a similar argument to make the whole thing go away: Azealia isn’t right, she’s just a jealous rapper who is riding the coattails of a more famous one, trying to get her song on the radio.
'The Last Airbender' is to movies what Iggy Azaelia is to music. — Superhero Feed (@SuperheroFeed) August 10, 2015@Jazalean @superherofeed I think its another one of those jokes only middle aged men who get boners over comic book movies understand. — IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) August 10, 2015@SuperheroFeed clever, ill just be over here enjoying my millions of dollars for doing nothing while you enjoy the Fantastic 4 ;-) xoxo — IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) August 10, 2015