Drake vs. Meek Mill, The Black Keys vs. The White Stripes, James Bay vs. Lilly Allen. All great, if slightly embarrassing, music beefs. It’s time to add another to that list – Reverend & The Makers vs. The 1975. We were treated to a pretty fantastic (and often baffling) Twitter spat between Reverend & The Makers’ Jon ‘The Rev’ McClure and The 1975’s Matt Healy over the weekend. And it all began with one tweet…
https://twitter.com/Reverend_Makers/status/700850039950856193
Rev’s fans seemed to back his tweet.
https://twitter.com/Reverend_Makers/status/701039985936486400
@Reverend_Makers imagine trying to argue with the Rev. Haha idiots. He'll always win?
— Tudor (@JamesTudor97) February 20, 2016
Loving @Reverend_Makers trolling the shit out of 1975 fans
— Alastair Marshall (@alimarsh1) February 20, 2016
With 1975 fans invading his mentions – Rev issued a followup to those who said ‘who?’
https://twitter.com/Reverend_Makers/status/701078321036189698
Then Matt Healy arrived, taking inspiration from one of Kanye West’s many Twitter rants and was in a trolling mood…
.@Reverend_Makers LIKE, OH THAT'S MATTY AND I CAN PUT HIS WIFE'S INITIALS ON MY TWITTER
— ?? (@Truman_Black) February 21, 2016
.@Reverend_Makers BRO FIRST OF ALL YOU STOLE YOUR WHOLE SHIT FROM CUDI
— ?? (@Truman_Black) February 21, 2016
.@Reverend_Makers SECOND, YOUR FIRST SINGLE WAS CORNY AS FUCK AND MOST THERE AFTER
— ?? (@Truman_Black) February 21, 2016
.@Reverend_Makers Work hard play hard pic.twitter.com/lxzv0k2dpw
— ?? (@Truman_Black) February 21, 2016
.@Reverend_Makers You have distracted from my creative process
— ?? (@Truman_Black) February 21, 2016
.@Reverend_Makers
3rd no one I know has ever listened to one of your albums all the way through— ?? (@Truman_Black) February 21, 2016
Then Healy threw his parting shot…
https://twitter.com/Truman_Black/status/701277103099146240
The Rev stood by his word though (and revealed he doesn’t know the difference between ‘then’ and ‘than’).
https://twitter.com/Reverend_Makers/status/701374691601203200
https://twitter.com/Reverend_Makers/status/701375872423620608
https://twitter.com/Reverend_Makers/status/701727774126510082
As of Monday morning – it appears the confrontation seems to be rumbling on, with the Rev still wading through a bucket full of Twitter abuse. Ultimately, it’s hard to tell if anyone came out on top in this though – like when two boxers both land a knockout blow to each other and promptly end up on a heap on the ground. It gave us all a laugh though.