Joel Zimmerman aka deadmau5 has been trending all the time this year, but usually not because of his music but his signature twitter rants and opinions against fellow musicians and artists. Most recently, he took aim Justin Bieber and justified about his so called “hate against Skrillex” during his Twitch livestream. Yesterday, the mau5 went on a series of mini rants about “killing off his deadmau5 brand” all together and start something new.
meh. considering killing off the "deadmau5" bullshit and just start something new. did it before, can do it again. fuck it. why not.
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) December 16, 2015
The tweet received diverse feedbacks ranging from Laidback Luke suggesting him to experiment with an Aphex Twin style of production that mau5 had told him about in the past to quite a few fans bemoaning the loss of the popular cult brand. Joel replied by saying that money doesn’t buy happiness, and talked about how he isn’t able to have fun as he was having before while being “opinionated” at the same time. By the looks of it he is definitely looking to make a major change. His final tweet was rather scary when he talked about disappearing altogether.
@deadmau5 I'd love to see you finally getting on that Aphex Twin style you told me about once.
— Laidback Luke (@LaidbackLuke) December 16, 2015
branding is money. money != happiness. running this shitshow while being as "opinionated" as I am isn't fun anymore. https://t.co/Pk6ONyti3y
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) December 16, 2015
ehhh… I'm not thinking of "rebranding" that shit NEVER works. I'm talking about disappearing alltogether. https://t.co/H1pGrUS4OR
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) December 16, 2015
After a few hours, he uploaded a new clip titled “00001” on his Soundcloud page in response to Laidback Luke’s earlier tweet. If these things are to suggest anything, then his new sound might showcase his new direction before his rumored “disappearance”.
.@LaidbackLuke dont even know what this is but here. https://t.co/F7tMua4bUU
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) December 16, 2015
You can check out the track below while praying that our favorite mau5 doesn’t leave.
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