Taylor Swift mildly shaded some of her fellow pop stars on tumblr, and Avril Lavigne is not having it. After the "Wildest Dreams" singer favorited a post about relations between artists and fans, the "Hello Kitty" singer defended herself on Twitter, saying that judging someone else only speaks on your own personality.
The whole tiff began when a Lavigne fan account, @UnitedforAvril, discovered that Swift had like an inflammatory post on tumblr. The post, which was created by a fan, compared Lavigne, Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Kanye West fan photos to pictures that Swift had taken with her adorers. The pictures implied that while some artists were distant from fans, Swift got up close and personal with her Swifties.
Taylor Swift liked a post comparing her M&G with @AvrilLavigne's M&G. See: https://t.co/9ocVkPRjOZ pic.twitter.com/rcHT8uYsX8
— UnitedForAvril (@UnitedForAvril) August 23, 2015
Though Perry, West and Spears have yet to respond to the cold allegations, Lavigne fired back at Swift on Twitter. Though she didn't address the 1989 singer in tag, she implied that Swift and her fans look worse than she ever could by judging her relationship with fans.
Comparison is judging and judging a person does not define who they are it defines who you are. We all Love our fans https://t.co/8kTwBhOtu6 — Avril Lavigne (@AvrilLavigne) August 24, 2015
So let's keep it all about the love and stay positive pic.twitter.com/llnOFPkXAc
— Avril Lavigne (@AvrilLavigne) August 24, 2015
Fans have defended Lavigne's semi-infamous fan photos from her last tour by her Lyme disease diagnosis, which had yet to be discovered at the time of her shows.
Swift has yet to publicly apologize.