Ariel Pink Calls Grimes 'Stupid And Retarded,' Later Backtracks via Twitter

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:

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Ariel Pink, Grimes, Madonna, Avicii