Levine tweeted Saturday: “The VMAs. One day a year when MTV pretends to still care about music. I’m drawing a line in the sand. F*ck you, VMAs.”

The network obviously had to say something in response to the popular judge and mentor of The Voice, so, they took to Twitter as well and asked Levine: “Soooo you’ll be tuning in at 9/8C tomorrow right? (BTW, bonus points if you TwitPic your 2004 Moonman!).”

Adam responded at first by Tweeting, “Still waiting to have my ‘Jerry Maguire mission statement moment of deep regret.’ Not happening. Phew!” But after some cooling down, Levine also Tweeted, “I may be a pop singer. But every once in a while the angsty teenager in me just blurts out some raw honesty. It’s a reflex.”  Well, guess he didn’t really cool down because he still stuck to his gun.