Ariel Pink has been offending a lot of people lately. Earlier this week, he said that The Eurythmics make him want to commit suicide, and he's now in the spotlight for calling Grimes "stupid and retarded."
This particular standoff began when Pink bashed Madonna last month for no apparent reason while talking about his involvement with her new album.
"Interscope are calling me to help write Madonna's record," Pink told Faster Louder. "They need something edgy. They need songwriting. She can't just have her Avicii, her producers or whatever, come up with a new techno jam for her to gyrate to and pretend that she's 20 years old. They actually need songs. I'm partly responsible for that return-to-values thing."
Grimes took offense to those comments, among others, and called out Pink for "delusional misogyny."
Pink then responded thusly in a new Guardian profile (via Stereogum): "What an amazing promotional campaign this is. I was only repeating what Interscope told me about why the needed me. They're not my opinions. It's clickbait journalism. The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media. Then Grimes — who's completely stupid and retarded to believe any of it — jumps in and has her two cents. I'm not a misogynist. Maybe she's angry that I'm the male version of her, who was at 4AD before her."
Following all of this, we got a positive social media spin from Pink, who is not likely to cease his negativity any time soon:
I love grimes. I love Madge. I love women. I love the guardian. I love pitchfork. I love the fans. I love the haters. I love my life. #UK
— Ariel Pink (@arielxpink) November 15, 2014
