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First Posted: 10/1/2013

Lady Gaga and Adam Levine have fired up their respective fan bases with tweets seemingly aimed at each other about the music they create and what it should be classified as. Levine allegedly started it all by saying, “Ugh…recycling old art for a younger generation doesn’t make you an artist. It makes you an art teacher.”

Mother Monster wasn’t having any of it, tweeting the next day, “uh oh guys the art police is here.”

The two then volleyed subtweets at each other about pop music, song lyrics, and other forms of police. Neither pulled a Chris Brown and deleted anything from their timeline so feel free to click back if you’re curious.

The argument between the two is interesting on multiple levels. First, both Gaga and Maroon 5 are under the same record label umbrella, that which is Interscope/Geffen/A&M. This wouldn’t be Gaga’s first feud with a label mate – remember those leaked Lana Del Rey songs in which the “Summertime Sadness” singer bashed her fellow New York songstress?

But that leads us to the second point: financial interests. Gaga has a new album due out in November. Levine is currently ramping up for another season of NBC’s “The Voice.” By the way, if you’re keeping score at home, “Summertime Sadness” is currently the second biggest song on pop radio.

Finally, there’s this: a clip of Levine from February, in which I broke the news to him that Gaga cancelled the remainder of the “Born This Way Ball” due to an injury.

“S—t… oh, man,” Levine responded. “See that breaks my heart because I don’t know her but I know that clearly she loves to perform.”

Granted this was long before “Applause” or any other material from the forthcoming “ARTPOP” album, but after her second album, some detractors had already criticized Gaga for recycling from pop’s past. In this instance, there may be more than what tweets the eye.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Lorde on “The Ralphie Show”

Ella Yelich-O’Connor is a 16-year-old from New Zealand that is captivating the music world under the moniker Lorde. “Royals” has dominated both the alternative and pop singles charts, and her debut album “Pure Heroine” dropped Monday. Everyone from Katy Perry to Olivia Wilde to Elton John has spoken publicly about how they are fans of the teenage songstress.

Off the success of her hit song and album release, Lorde will join “The Ralphie Show” Wednesday night to talk about her new-found life filled with something that she sings tentatively about through much of her music: fame.

-Listen to “The Ralphie Show” weeknights from 7 p.m.-midnight on 97 BHT.