Grizzly Bear frontman Ed Droste has been fighting with Taylor Swift for a while now. The situation started in earnest last month when he tweeted a photo of an article that compared Swift to Regina George from Mean Girls with the caption “Obsessed that people are catching on.” Droste also called her “self serving” and “calculating,” also explaining that he has “first hand experience” of being treated poorly by her and saying “she’s been given a free pass for too long.” Swifties leapt in the pop star’s defense immediately, and even though Droste admitted “She frightens me genuinely,” he did not back away. 
Swift is currently on an adventure to share her stage with every famous person in America, touring the country for her album, 1989, and welcoming a different star at each show, and Droste has been showing up periodically to express his disinterest with that. At her Los Angeles show last night, Swift brought out Beck and St. Vincent to perform Beck’s single “Dreams.” Somewhere else in Los Angeles, Droste spent his evening guesting on Haunting Renditions With Eliot Glazer, where they did a cover of Brandy & Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine” but he took time of to tweet:

  
Tons of Swift fans attacked Droste again, and it began to escalate. 

   
    
    
 
After all the controversy, HAIM, who are known to be best friends with Swift but also close to Droste, reportedly unfollowed him on Twitter with Alana Haim tweeting this: 

 
That seems to have been the last straw for Droste. After being fed up with all of the backlash, he made a few more shots and shout-outs and then deleted his Twitter account. 

   
    
 
Droste still has a social media prescence is not completely gone, he is on Instagram where he documents his travels for Vogue where you can follow him here. He is still on Snapchat.