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MIAMI — Earlier today, Joel Zimmerman — a.k.a Deadmau5 — announced publicly that he was under the influence of a mixture of cocaine and MDMA when he verbally attacked American pop icon Madonna online for referencing ‘Molly’ at a concert in Miami in 2012.
“I was just peaking on the MDMA when I decided to login to my account,” says Zimmerman.
“I was about to retweet my own tweet linking to my blog post from earlier that day, but then Madonna’s actions at the then-recent concert popped into my head.”
What followed were a series of aggressive tweets from the dance-music superstar directed at Madonna’s account.
“It’s like talking about slavery at a fucking blues concert. It’s inappropriate,” ranted the Mau5 man through his digital networks.
After meditating on the issue for some time and sobering up, Zimmerman admits what he said was completely out of line, and that he had been “rolling so hard” when he posted the comments.
Following the public’s reaction to his comments, Zimmerman was quick to quash any anti-drug associations with his Deadmau5 name.
“Do you really think people could enjoy my music without drugs? It’s played without any variation or tempo change for four, five, sometimes even six hours at a time; if the drugs I myself am taking are good,” says Zimmerman.
“Obviously I was under the influence of various amphetamines when I posted those outlandish remarks so frequently and so aggressively over such a small length of time.”
Zimmerman repeatedly assures the public that he is “110% pro-drugs” and that drug use is rampant at almost every Deadmau5 concert.
He also asserts that between himself and fellow electronic star Skrillex, the duo have caused roughly one-hundred drug related deaths in the last year alone, via exposure to a combination of “extremely bright flashing lights, ear-splitting synthesizers, and coming up way too quickly, all happening at the same time.”
A phenomenon they have dubbed ‘Mau5ing out.’
While Zimmerman apologized to the elderly pop star via , he later publicly criticized her again for titling her most recent album MDNA.
“I was in a deep k-hole when I made that criticism as well. I couldn’t even lift my laptop off my legs so I did all I could at the time, which was tweet.” he clarifies.
Zimmerman again went to great lengths to correct himself, stating that Madonna should have titled the album MDMA because he fears coding drug references in such a “complex way” will draw attention to the “elephant in the room;” that drugs actually play no role at all in popular dance music.
