Following two years of lobbing insults in the general direction of Australian pop star Iggy Azalea, fellow rapper-or-flower-or-whatever Azealia Banks is now waging war on the entire nation of Australia to save time. After all, Australia is a vast and forbidding continent; players of the board game Risk know that it’s best to try to take it in one fell swoop, rather than get bogged down in too many minor skirmishes with its individual musicians. (AC/DC alone will tie you up for decades.) So Banks has taken to the garrison of her Twitter account, firing off a series of blanket tweets that blast the entire country of Australia as violent, angry, and really far away.
The bloodshed began, as it so often does, with a backhanded compliment, issued by Brisbane radio announcer Paul Brown to congratulate Banks on completing “her first ever full Australian concert” at last weekend’s Splendour In The Grass festival. Banks had previously ended her set early at 2012’s Splendour, blaming the sound, then walked out on two separate Australian shows in 2013—one after a mere 90 seconds—after someone in each crowd hurled a drink at her. This time the stars, equipment, and drunks aligned—but as Banks reminded in her response to Brown, an afternoon without someone throwing shit doesn’t make Australia any less terrible.
@brownypaul @SITG because in all actuality. You guys are terrible crowds to play for. You’re violent and belligerent and I simply
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 27, 2015
@brownypaul @SITG will not put my safety at risk. I would’ve walked off stage had someone thrown something .
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 27, 2015