Calvin Harris Tweets To The Haters

Calvin Harris has received accusations of having a ghost producer throughout his career. And earlier today, as an effort to silence his haters, Calvin had a few words to say over on Twitter.

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Call it a Twitter rant if you must, but Calvin has the right to speak up and defend himself. And whether or not you believe him is your choice too, but I most certainly trust his word against the haters. Anyone who has listened to Calvin Harris’ music can tell he has talent, but ignorance is bliss I guess! No matter how talented you are, there will always be haters… You can develop one of the best production styles in the genre, play amazing sets, and get a massive following, but you will always have haters! Clearly Calvin isn’t too concerned with this though, after all, he was the genius behind ‘I Created Disco‘, innovated an entire genre, no big deal.

Ghost-producing accusations have followed plenty of big-name DJs over the years — it’s one of dance music’s most persistent, most argued-about topics, with outlets like Billboard and LA Weekly devoting entire features to the practice and who’s really behind the boards on certain records. Harris has generally stood apart from that conversation by staying unusually hands-on with his own catalogue: credited not just as producer, but as writer, mixer, and, on plenty of tracks, vocalist too.

The timing of this particular rant lines up with a busy stretch for Harris. Just a few months later, on October 31, 2014, he dropped Motion, his fourth studio album, continuing the run that started with 2012’s 18 Months and stretched back to his 2007 debut, I Created Disco. Whatever the haters were saying that August afternoon, it clearly didn’t slow him down — he kept writing, producing, and touring behind a catalogue that’s made him one of the most in-demand names in the genre, haters or no haters.

Motion went on to house global hits like “Summer” and “Blame,” both credited to Harris as producer and writer, which made the ghost-producer chatter look even shakier in hindsight. It’s a pattern that’s followed plenty of successful dance acts over the years — the bigger the hits get, the louder the skeptics get too — and Harris clearly decided the best response was simply to keep releasing music and let the catalogue speak for itself.