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Back in May, the Iggy Azalea-Britney Spears collaboration "Pretty Girls" hit the web with a resounding thud.

Thanks in part to its weird-ass video, the tone-deaf ode to being hot briefly cracked the top 30, but it’s been plummeting ever since.

It’s not a career-ender or anything, but Iggy delivered last year’s song of the summer, and this time around she was paired up with one of the world’s most famous pop stars.

Expectations were sky-high, and saying "Pretty Girls" failed to meet them would be like saying the Pope’s been known to dabble in Catholicism.

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As she does every time she feels she’s being unfairly attacked (this time by…the music-buying public?), Iggy took to social media to defend herself against unwarranted haterism.

“It’s difficult to send a song up the charts without additional promo and TV performances,” the rapper wrote on Twitter. “I would have enjoyed performing it a lot, I think it got off to a powerful start. But you need content to compete in 2015.”

Yes, the "content" was the problem! Or it was the promotion! Or…maybe it was something else, but it certainly had nothing to do with the fact that Iggy’s 15 minutes are winding down, as evidenced by the fact that she was recently forced to cancel her first arena tour

Iggy’s explanation for why the "Pretty Girls" flopped makes about as much sense as her awful freestyle "rapping," so allow us to take a stab at it:

In an age when Meghan Trainor is consistently topping the charts with female empowerment anthems, Iggy and Britney busted out a dusty "throwback jam" about how fun it is to be sexy, and now they’re wondering why it was DOA on the charts.

Oh, and lyrics aside, the song super-sucks. We’re no industry experts, but that probably doesn’t help, either.