“I Thought I Was Being Supportive”: Zedd Responds To Allegations Of “Toxic” Behaviour
"I wish he could have just let me know in person how he was feeling."
Superstar producer Zedd has broken his silence and responded to a damning accusation of bad behaviour from former friend and collaborator Matthew Koma.
Koma and Zedd have had a long and fruitful career together, with Koma co-writing some of the latter performer’s greatest hits, from the best-selling ‘Spectrum’ to the Grammy-winning ‘Clarity’.
However, Koma recently took to his socials to post a long missive directed at Zedd, alleging that the musician has unfairly hogged songwriting credits. Moreover, the letter contains anecdotes clearly designed to embarrass the DJ superstar, including the claim that Zedd refused to play a song in any key other than C out of apparent musical inability.
Matthew Koma, singer-songwriter and Hilary Duff’s fiancé, calls out Zedd for taking credit for his work and exposes him as a fraud.
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“It’s a really sad truth because I’m extremely proud of the work he and I did together,” Koma wrote. “Unfortunately my good feelings toward those songs have all but disappeared as they were experienced alongside someone to toxic and self serving that it occupied the space where any happiness could exist.
“The blows started small — him giving interviews about ‘the lyrics he wrote’ (I wrote every word and melody) with no mention of my name…More or less, I was just brushed under the rug while he took all the credit.”
Now in response, Zedd has expressed his wish that the two might one day sit down together “as friends”, and has responded to some of the key slurs made against him.
“I have given Matt songwriting credit for every top line he has written,” goes the response, posted as a note on Twitter. “What hurts the most is that Matt feels under appreciated and treated unfairly while I have countless times mentioned him / his name while we’ve done promo together, performed our songs live together and I thought I was being supportive.”
“Anywhere you look, you will see Matt for his work. I wish he could have just let me know in person how he was feeling,” the letter concludes.
For his part, Koma is yet to respond. See Zedd’s full response below.
