Deadmau5 Plugs USB Cable Into Random Objects After Claiming Krewella Faked Their Live Show
Reigniting his feud with electronic duo Krewella, EDM producer Deadmau5 blasted the pair for seemingly faking their live performance and even posted some really weird photos on his Twitter to illustrate his point.
Cover image via SAYS.comProgressive-house music producer Deadmau5 may not be performing at the Ultra Music Festival, but he managed to get himself in the thick of things anyway
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While watching electronic dance duo Krewella's set on the Ultra live feed, the DJ took to Twitter to call them out for allegedly faking their live performance, as the digital turntables and mixer seem to be completely unplugged
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Krewella – made up of sisters Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf – later responded to Deadmau5's claim, saying that he should "zoom in & see the USBs plugged in2 the CDJs/mixer" before making the assumption
However, Deadmau5 does not seem to be very impressed with their defence
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He continued to fire some pretty vicious shots at the duo's defence with various acronyms of USB along with some amusing photos of a DJ controller plugged into various household items…
… Which got increasingly ridiculous with each post. This guy's not going down without a fight.
This isn't the first time Deadmau5 and Krewella are at loggerheads with each other. Last year, he publicly criticised the duo in response to former member Kris Trindl's controversial departure from Krewella.
His tweets partly inspired Jahan Yousaf's Billboard op-ed on public shaming on the Internet, where Jahan pointed out that the amount of sexist remarks and bullying they've encountered online in the past year have led to them being labelled as the "most hated group in the electronic dance music scene"
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Jahan's article exposed the harsh truth that female DJs are subject to extreme scrutiny in a male-dominated genre.
Ironically, the Yousaf sisters spoke to MTV about why public shaming towards women has to stop just hours before Deadmau5's comments on their Ultra set.
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Anyway, back to the "are they or are they not faking it" argument, YouTube user Christian Jackson uploaded a video to show that it is entirely possible for Krewella to be mixing live without any cables by replicating the exact set-up they had onstage in his home studio
Image via Christian Jackson's YouTube
In short, Jackson thinks that Krewella's minimalist set-up is probably the "most streamlined way to get from your computer to the CDJs and out into the speakers without the whole hassle of a whole lot of cables". Watch the full explanation HERE:
Looks like Deadmau5 could be wrong after all. Watch Krewella's Ultra Music Festival performance and judge for yourself HERE:
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