12 Biggest Feuds of 2014.
Follow @Mazana17The year in celebrity beefs, brawls and brouhahas.
Drake vs. Diddy
In a kerfuffle that took place in the actual physical, non-social media world, Diddy and Drake came to blows outside LIV nightclub in Miami Beach this December. According to TMZ,
the dust-up was caused by Drake's track "0 to 100/The Catch Up," which
earned the Canadian rapper two Grammy nods.
Allegedly, the song's producer, Boi 1da, first offered the track to both Drake and Diddy, but the latter didn't record it immediately. The former got impatient and did the song on his own, turning it into a hit in the process and supposedly pissing off Diddy enough for him to fight Drake about it when both of them turned up at DJ Khaled's birthday party. According to a tweet by DJ Sam Sneak, the brawl was enough to send Drake to the hospital with a dislocated shoulder. Neither side commented further.
Allegedly, the song's producer, Boi 1da, first offered the track to both Drake and Diddy, but the latter didn't record it immediately. The former got impatient and did the song on his own, turning it into a hit in the process and supposedly pissing off Diddy enough for him to fight Drake about it when both of them turned up at DJ Khaled's birthday party. According to a tweet by DJ Sam Sneak, the brawl was enough to send Drake to the hospital with a dislocated shoulder. Neither side commented further.
In a November interview with The Telegraph promoting her new covers album, It's the Girls!, Bette Midler made time to throw some shade. "It's always surprising to see someone like Ariana Grande
with that silly high voice, a very wholesome voice, slithering around
on a couch," Midler told the publication. "Trust your talent. You don't
have to make a whore out of yourself to get ahead." Grande responded the
same day, tweeting, "Bette was always a feminist who stood for women
being able to do whatever the F they wanted without judgment! not sure
where that Bette went but I want that sexy mermaid back!!! Always a fan
no matter what my love." Bette quickly backtracked, tweeting less than a
week later that her birthday wish was "that [Ariana Grande] forgives me
soon and let's me direct her next video."
This May, security footage obtained by TMZ showed Beyoncé looking on as her sister Solange physically attacked Jay Z in the elevator of the Standard Hotel after the annual Met Gala. Since the clip had no audio, the sound everyone heard was the roar of wild speculation. Did Solange catch Jay trying to sneak off to Rihanna's afterparty? Were Solange's friends name-dropping Jay at the door despite not having tickets? Was Solange off her rumored medication? Why was Beyoncé just standing there?! These questions still plague us, since the trio released a statement three days later that said both Jay Z and Solange acknowledged their roles in the "private matter" and there would be no further comment. The in-laws were seen shortly after, shopping for jewelry and looking like nothing happened. Eventually the world moved on, though Beyoncé half-acknowledged the fight in her August remix of "Flawless" featuring Nicki Minaj, rapping, "We escalate up in this bitch like elevators/Of course sometimes shit goes down when there's a billion dollars on an elevator."
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This May, security footage obtained by TMZ showed Beyoncé looking on as her sister Solange physically attacked Jay Z in the elevator of the Standard Hotel after the annual Met Gala. Since the clip had no audio, the sound everyone heard was the roar of wild speculation. Did Solange catch Jay trying to sneak off to Rihanna's afterparty? Were Solange's friends name-dropping Jay at the door despite not having tickets? Was Solange off her rumored medication? Why was Beyoncé just standing there?! These questions still plague us, since the trio released a statement three days later that said both Jay Z and Solange acknowledged their roles in the "private matter" and there would be no further comment. The in-laws were seen shortly after, shopping for jewelry and looking like nothing happened. Eventually the world moved on, though Beyoncé half-acknowledged the fight in her August remix of "Flawless" featuring Nicki Minaj, rapping, "We escalate up in this bitch like elevators/Of course sometimes shit goes down when there's a billion dollars on an elevator."
The plot of The Interview
– which sees Seth Rogen and James Franco playing journalists enlisted
by the CIA into an assassination plot against North Korea's supreme
leader, Kim Jong-un – pissed off that country's officials from the
get-go. But it all came to a head in November when Sony's computers were
hacked – likely by North Korea, according to the FBI – and a deluge of
embarrassing e-mails wreaked havoc on Hollywood. The studio, in turn,
tried to pull The Interview, especially when the hackers
threatened to attack any theater showing the movie. But after no less
than President Obama called the decision "a mistake," Sony about-faced,
giving the film a digital and limited theatrical release. Rogen and
Franco both responded to the news with exuberant tweets, the latter posting, "VICTORY!!!!!!! The PEOPLE and THE PRESIDENT have spoken!!!"
Justin Bieber vs. Orlando Bloom
The first half of the year seemed dominated by Justin Bieber's
increasingly erratic antics, from spending thousands at strip clubs to
racing expensive cars while under the influence to vandalizing his
neighbor's house. While the law seemed incapable of catching up with
Bieber's shit-stirring, other celebrities managed. Grainy footage
that came out this July showed 37-year-old Orlando Bloom attempting to
punch Justin Bieber in the face at Cipriani restaurant in Ibiza. It
apparently started when Bieber made a joke that he had slept with
Bloom's ex-wife, Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr, within earshot of
the actor, then further provoked him by saying, "What's up, bitch?" as
he walked by. A report even suggested that Leonardo DiCaprio was present
and cheered Bloom on. Though the actor fails to actually land the hit,
he still gets to check "swing at Justin Bieber" off his list of Things
Every Guy Dreams About (presumably right behind "sleep with a Victoria's
Secret model").
The beef began in 2013, after a series of leaked e-mails between Jack White and his ex-wife Karen Elson showed White calling Keys' frontman Dan Auerbach "an asshole" and accusing him of copying the White Stripes' sound. Keys' drummer Patrick Carney, in response, said that while he thought White "sounds like an asshole," he reasoned that "we've all said fucked-up shit in private, and divorce is hard."
A year later, in Rolling Stone's June cover story, White spoke at length about the e-mails and was given the opportunity to clear the air. Instead, in true White fashion, he ended up doubling down: "There are kids at school who dress like everybody else, because they don't know what to do. There are musicians like that, too. I'll hear TV commercials where the music's ripping off sounds of mine, to the point I think it's me. Half the time, it's the Black Keys." When his comments began to get picked up by news outlets, White issued a statement apologizing to the Black Keys and wishing them "all the success they can get."
Jack White vs. the Black Keys
The beef began in 2013, after a series of leaked e-mails between Jack White and his ex-wife Karen Elson showed White calling Keys' frontman Dan Auerbach "an asshole" and accusing him of copying the White Stripes' sound. Keys' drummer Patrick Carney, in response, said that while he thought White "sounds like an asshole," he reasoned that "we've all said fucked-up shit in private, and divorce is hard."
A year later, in Rolling Stone's June cover story, White spoke at length about the e-mails and was given the opportunity to clear the air. Instead, in true White fashion, he ended up doubling down: "There are kids at school who dress like everybody else, because they don't know what to do. There are musicians like that, too. I'll hear TV commercials where the music's ripping off sounds of mine, to the point I think it's me. Half the time, it's the Black Keys." When his comments began to get picked up by news outlets, White issued a statement apologizing to the Black Keys and wishing them "all the success they can get."
Diplo vs. Lorde and Taylor Swift
Producer, DJ, globe-trotter (and Katy Perry's rumored boyfriend) Diplo has a consistently raunchy Twitter feed, but he took aim at the wrong target in November when he joked
that someone "should start a Kickstarter to get taylor swift a booty."
Because this is the Internet, someone created a Fundly account within
the hour called "Get Taylor Swift a Booty,"
that, while it doesn't go into logistics of how said booty will be
acquired, nevertheless snagged $95 from four, uh, charitable donors. But
when Diplo tweeted the link, he brought forth the wrath of 17-year-old
pop star and T. Swift bestie Lorde.
"Should we do something about your tiny penis while we're at it hm,"
she tweeted to the DJ – inspiring 52,000 retweets (to Diplo's 5,000).
But it was all in honest fun, according to an interview Lorde gave to Fader, because Diplo "is like a big brother" to her and she was just "not letting him say stupid shit."
Kiss vs. Kiss
Any member of the Kiss
Army knows that the chances of a reunion between current members Gene
Simmons and Paul Stanley and their estranged bandmates Peter Criss and
Ace Frehley are less than a snowball's chance in hell, but when the band
got its long-awaited induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
this year, many fans held out hope that the group's original members
set aside their differences for one ceremony performance. That hope
lasted just long enough for Simmons to open his mouth: "The makeup is
earned," the guitarist told Brian Hiatt in our March cover story. "Just being there at the beginning is not enough. . .You can't blame your band members."
In the article, Simmons pointed to Criss' and Frehley's penchant for drugs and alcohol for the rift in the band that led to its eventual breakup, though Frehley had other thoughts: "The real reason they don't want to perform with me and Peter is because the last time they did, they had to do a reunion tour," he said of Simmons and Stanley. "We play three songs, the fans go crazy. They didn't want to open up a can of worms." After some back and forth about allowing the current lineup (with Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer replacing Frehley and Criss, respectively) to play, the group posted a note on its site that Kiss would not play in any incarnation whatsoever at the induction ceremony, "to bring this to a quick end." As promised, the original band members failed to set aside their differences and didn't perform at the ceremony (though they all did attend and accept their awards). Their verbal sparring continues to today.
In the article, Simmons pointed to Criss' and Frehley's penchant for drugs and alcohol for the rift in the band that led to its eventual breakup, though Frehley had other thoughts: "The real reason they don't want to perform with me and Peter is because the last time they did, they had to do a reunion tour," he said of Simmons and Stanley. "We play three songs, the fans go crazy. They didn't want to open up a can of worms." After some back and forth about allowing the current lineup (with Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer replacing Frehley and Criss, respectively) to play, the group posted a note on its site that Kiss would not play in any incarnation whatsoever at the induction ceremony, "to bring this to a quick end." As promised, the original band members failed to set aside their differences and didn't perform at the ceremony (though they all did attend and accept their awards). Their verbal sparring continues to today.
Frances Bean Cobain vs. Lana Del Rey
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Lana Del Rey's flair for the dramatic ended up getting her in trouble earlier this year when, in an interview with Tim Jonze of The Guardian, Del Rey told the writer, "I wish I was dead already."
The statement came in the context of Del Rey's unhappiness with pop
stardom. "I don't want to have to keep doing this, but I am," she said.
"I wouldn't be scared if I knew [death] was coming." Del Rey later tried
to distance herself from the quotes, suggesting in a series of tweets
that she didn't want to continue the interview but the "journalist was
persistent." Jonze discredited this version of events, saying that the
singer "was delightful company" for their full 70-minute interview time,
even posting the audio in which Del Rey made the comments. One person
who was less than delighted was Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of the
late Kurt Cobain, who tweeted,
"The death of young musicians is nothing to romanticize." (When
admonished by a Del Rey fan, Cobain clarified that she had no animosity
toward the singer.) Del Rey then tweeted
at Cobain, "It's all good. [The interviewer] was asking me a lot about
your dad. I said I liked him because he was talented, not because he
died young. . .I don't find that part of music glam either."
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