Halsey Deletes Tweet Mistakenly Asking for One World Trade Center to 'Collapse': 'Clearly a Misunderstanding'

Halsey wrote the tweet after a middling review of her new album 'Manic.'

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Halsey has cleared up a questionable comment she made on Twitter.

Earlier this week, Pitchfork published its review of the singer’s new album, Manic. “Too much of this album sounds like the amorphous pop that you might associate with a miserable Lyft ride,” the publication’s tweet said about the project, which it gave a 6.5 out of 10.

Halsey presumably saw the review and clapped back, writing, “Can the basement that they run p*tchfork out of just collapse already,” E! News reports. The tweet has since been deleted.

While it may have sounded like a regular diss, it was later pointed out that the Pitchfork offices are in the One World Trade Center building in New York.

“Losing my mind thinking about the person on Halsey's team who had to tell her she just called for the collapse of One World Trade,” NBC News reporter Ben Kesslen wrote. Halsey saw that she made a mistake and deleted her tweet.

losing my mind thinking about the person on halsey’s team who had to tell her she just called for the collapse of one world trade https://t.co/eJJmK0KyQ7

— Ben Kesslen (@benkesslen) January 23, 2020

She then quote-tweeted Kesslen and wrote, “ABSOLUTELY deleted it upon realizing this. Was just trying to make a joke! Intended zero harm. Just figured I could poke at them back with the same aloof passive aggression they poke at artists with! Clearly a misunderstanding.” However, Halsey has since deleted the apology as well. Of course, people took notice of the singer's blunder. 

Pitchfork: the album is good, not great

Halsey: they should have another 9/11

— keegan (@FranziaMom) January 23, 2020

halsey accidentally taking out the bon appetit test kitchen

— anand (@demon_squid) January 23, 2020

imagine caring this much about p*tchfork pic.twitter.com/vQUxVfhyR4

— cupcake (@mexitalianbeef) January 23, 2020

re: last RT it's so funny that halsey has 12.3 million followers and is doing the asterisk "p*tchfork" thing as if they're not gonna see it

— josh terry (@JoshhTerry) January 23, 2020

My serious Halsey + P4k opinion is that the number of people who read music criticism is so small that if I were still there I’d be pleased as punch that she mentioned them at all. Also attention is extremely validating to me. Halsey threaten me with a war crime challenge

— Larry Fitzmaurice (@lfitzmaurice) January 23, 2020

Halsey committing high treason and calling for the destruction of the World Trade Center was certainly not on my 2020 bingo card pic.twitter.com/45iGRlNKnw

— Hunter Reis (@hunterreis) January 23, 2020

Halsey mistakenly (??) advocating for another 9/11 over a Pitchfork album review will be the funniest thing that happens in 2020.

— Anthony Carmen (@nthonyCarmen) January 23, 2020

Halsey’s album Manic was released on Jan. 16, which features contributions from BTS, Suga, Dominic Fike, and Alanis Morissette.

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