deadmau5 Calls Madonna 'Funky Grandma,' Attacks 'Button-Pushers' Skrillex & David Guetta
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Perhaps the most palatable of the EDM superstars, in his cover story, deadmau5 -- born Joel Zimmerman -- attacks DJ "button-pushers" who command millions annually for their live performances, then merely take the stage and press play.
"David Guetta has two iPods and a mixer and he just plays tracks -- like, 'Here's one with Akon, check it out!'," he told Rolling Stone. "Even Skrillex [a friend of Zimmerman's] isn't doing anything too technical. He has a laptop and a MIDI recorder, and he's just playing his shit ... People are, thank God, smartening up about who does what -- but there's still button-pushers getting paid half a million. And not to say I'm not a button-pusher. I'm just pushing a lot more buttons."