Deadmau5 is still peeved at Madonna for an apparent pro-drug reference the Material Girl made at the Ultra Music Festival in March. And the testy electronic music whiz isn’t crazy about fellow super-DJs David Guetta or Skrillex, either.
In a new Rolling Stone interview, Deadmau5, born Joel Zimmerman, says Madonna’s remarks to the crowd at Ultra were akin to, “talking about slavery at a [bleeping] blues concert,” and he charges the Material Girl of trying too hard to be a “funky grandma.”
Deadmau5 first lashed out at Madonna after she’d made what seemed like a thinly veiled drug reference at Ultra, the Miami dance music fest, saying from the stage, “How many people in this crowd have seen Molly?” [Molly’s the slang term in dance music circles for MDMA, the active chemical in ecstasy].
Deadmau5 reacted at the time by posting on his Facebook page: “Very classy there Madonna… such a great message for the young music lovers at ultra. Quite the [bleeping] philanthropist. but hey, at least yer hip and trendy! [Bleeping] cant smack my head hard enough right now . . . I can appriciate [sic] her meteoric career . . . but what the [bleep] was that?”
The new Rolling Stone cover boy continues bashing Madonna in the mag’s latest issue, saying of Madge, “You want to be ‘hip’ and ‘cool’ and ‘funky grandma.’ Fine. It’s not my place to say you’re irrelevant. [But] if you’re gonna come into my world, at least do it with a little more dignity. I understand she has millions more fans, and is way more successful than I’ll ever be. But it’s like talking about slavery at a [bleeping] blues concert. It’s inappropriate.”
Deadmau5, who’s also had a Twitter war with Paul “DJ Pauly D” DelVecchio, also slams DJs David Guetta and Skrillex in the same interview for their lack of technical proficiency at their hugely popular live shows.
“David Guetta has two iPods and a mixer and he just plays tracks,” Deadmau5 sniffs. “Like, ‘Here’s one with Akon, check it out!”
He then takes aim at Skrillex — who Rolling Stone says is a friend of his — adding, “Even Skrillex isn’t doing anything too technical. He has a laptop and a MIDI recorder, and he’s just playing his [bleep].”
“There’s… button-pushers getting paid half a million [per show],” he says. “And not to say I’m not a button-pusher. I’m just pushing a lot more buttons.”
He sure is… just ask Madonna.