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Things have taken a messy turn between Japanese artist Haru Nemuri and American pop duo Frost Children over their recent music collaboration — and it’s all blowing up on X (formerly Twitter).
What started as a promising creative collab has spiralled into a full-blown online fallout, with Haru Nemuri calling out what she says was “terrible communication”, ghosting, and a general lack of accountability from the duo and their label, True Panther.
Haru didn't hold back in a long string of emotional tweets, explaining how she tried to sort things out in private first — but was met with silence.
She says Frost Children ditched their agreed tour plan for a “better offer” and never even told her directly.
“To begin with, the situation I had to make public was that they hadn’t answered my questions at all and ignored too many times,” she wrote.
“The only thing I expected for was [communication]. But now we know, they don’t have the will to improve it.”
Haru also brought receipts, accusing Frost and their team of using artwork, selfies, and even uploading the album on Bandcamp against contractual rules — without any proper heads-up.
She says she even fixed messed-up English translations of her lyrics, only to find the CDs had been printed and sold without her team ever seeing the final version.
“And today I found out that they already made it and sent it out... What the hell is this?” she added in her March update.
The duo Frost Children eventually responded with their own statement, saying they “didn’t want to do this publicly”, but felt they had to correct what they saw as “false narratives”.
They said they loved the EP and were proud of the music, but called Haru’s label Sony’s original terms “exploitative”.
They also claimed Haru’s team was unresponsive to contract edits, which pushed back the timeline.
As for the cancelled tour, they said the routing would have caused “huge costs” and losses they couldn’t afford.
They also defended themselves on the CD booklet mess, saying they waited months for lyric notes and corrected almost everything, apart from the album title’s capitalisation.
“We love the EP and are sad that it has come to this,” they concluded.
But for Haru, that’s not enough. “I am just as proud of the music work itself, except for their lame way of communication,” she said, signing off with a final “Bye forever.”
It’s a shame really — fans of the EP are left stuck in the middle, watching what could’ve been a cool collab crumble under industry politics, silence, and what seems to be a clash of values.