Over the course of the last week, major celebrities have blown the Internet up with their decisions to take their feuds to social media for the world to see.
Early last week, we saw Taylor Swift and Nikki Minaj get into a Twitter Battle Royale that had the two taking shots at each other over the MTV Video Music Awards.
Minaj began the altercation with a series of tweets, in summation, revealing her views on the fact that if she wasn't a curvy-figured, black female artist, she would have gained more recognition for her videos "Feeling Myself" and "Anaconda."
If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) July">https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/623608271774... 21, 2015Which was then responsed tp by Swift and her camp who defended herself with:
@NICKIMINAJ I've done nothing but love & support you. It's unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot..
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July">https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/623616796... 21, 2015Minaj answered by pulling out the oldest trick in the books: deny, deny, counter-accuse, deny.
Huh? U must not be reading my tweets. Didn't say a word about u. I love u just as much. But u should speak on this. @taylorswift13
— NICKI MINAJ (@NICKIMINAJ) July">https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/623618047673... 21, 2015Swift pulled her own tactic of "pretend to play nice" by replying, and ultimately ending the argument, with a tweet trying to squash the conversation.
@NICKIMINAJ If I win, please come up with me!! You're invited to any stage I'm ever on.
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July">https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/623628086... 21, 2015While artists, of any kind, completely own and reserve the right to believe why they should or shouldn't be nominated for an award, I'd say it's fair to note that taking an argument like this to social media is just childish.
Sure, Taylor felt the need to respond. At least she kind of, sort of, tried to be nice about it.
Millions of people are exposed to, and engage in, this kind of middle school-style trash talk. It's just getting to a point, in the celebrity world, where it's getting out of hand.
These kind of online altercations between celebrities are nothing new. We've seen it with Azealia Banks and Action Bronson, Rihanna and Ciara, Deadmau5, and lots of people. The amount of attention it attracts from normal, everyday, non-celebrity users is truly baffling.
As college students we can all recall (or hopefully not) how immature it felt to sub-Tweet people in high school. This was our way of talking smack about someone or maybe even just trying to get someone's attention for our own satisfaction. That's what this reminded me of: high school sub-Tweet wars.
Take away their little blue Twitter verification and, to me, they're just a bunch of teenage girls mad because the other one stole her trophy.
It would just be nice to see our generation of millennial social media enthusiasts shift their focus to more relevant world news.
Of course, this wasn't the only Twitter beef gaining national attention this week. Rapper Meek Mill took to Twitter going on a rant about how "true" to himself and the world he is. He also had to make it clearthat star singer/rapper Drake is a phony.
The rapper claimed "the whole [rap] game" was too scared to tell the truth, so he had to be the one to do it. Which is when he listed off a sequence of tweets stating as much.
Stop comparing drake to me too.... He don't write his own raps! That's why he ain't tweet my album because we found out! 😁
— Meek Mill (@MeekMill) July">https://twitter.com/MeekMill/status/62370069850975... 22, 2015He ain't even write that verse on my album and if I woulda knew I woulda took it off my album..... I don't trick my fans! Lol
— Meek Mill (@MeekMill) July">https://twitter.com/MeekMill/status/62370338267546... 22, 2015Kendrick and j cole really know how to rap even tho they in different lanes .... Dude is all the way outta of it lol
— Meek Mill (@MeekMill) July">https://twitter.com/MeekMill/status/62370222030795... 22, 2015Meek's claim was that Drake has a "ghostwriter" named Quentin Mitchell who has been writing Drake's songs for years now.
A few days after Meek Mill's array of tweets were posted to his account, Drake finally responded. Except, unlike many of the other Twitter escapades being talked about in the media, Drake took his own approach, retaliating through song.
Drake responded with a new diss track that premiered Saturday on his Beats 1's show "OVO Sound Radio" called "Charged Up".
"I stay silent 'cause we're at war and I'm very patient / 6 God is watching / I just hope you're prepared to face him / I'm charged up," Drake warns on the surprisingly mellow Meek Mill response track. "Wow, I'm honored you think this is staged / I'm flattered, man / In fact, I'm amazed."
Meanwhile, Drake's accused ghostwriter, Mitchell took up his own social media post writing a detailed post on his Tumblr account that was summarized with his sentence, "I am not and never will be a 'ghostwriter' for Drake."
In his new song, "Charged Up" Drake throws punches of his own when he writes, "I seen it all coming / Knew they were pushing buttons / Easter egg hunting / They gotta look for something / Done doing favors for people / 'Cause it ain't like I need the money I make off a feature,"
Coming from a guy who is sweeping the nation with his #1 hit songs and albums over the years, Meek Mill had to feel that one.
But yet again, this keeps coming back to the infantile mentality of people, especially celebrities these days. Grow up and make a call or text of your own to confront the person. Trust me, the story will break about your feud anyways. Why put what should be behind closed doors out into the open? Why are their publicists approving these kinds of remarks and statements?
It's just childish.
