Debbie Gibson or Tiffany. Team Black Hat or Team Red Hair. The question was constantly plastered across Bop and Tiger Beat like it was the most important decision you'd ever make.
"It's a drag for both of us," she said recently on the Unfamous podcast.
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After decades of politely explaining that no, she and Tiffany weren't actually feuding, Gibson finally just said what she's probably been thinking since 1987: Can we please move on? Like, seriously.
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Two Teenagers, Two Coasts, Zero Drama
Tiffany's covering, "I Think We're Alone Now" in shopping malls across America. Debbie's writing and producing her own songs, about to become the youngest female songwriter to hit number one with "Foolish Beat."
Both 16 and 17 years old. Both on every magazine cover that teenagers were buying.
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"We are so different," Gibson explained, and you can hear the exhaustion. She compared it to lumping Whitney Houston and Belinda Carlisle together just because they were the same age.
Here's what was actually happening: Two kids were too busy to even know each other.
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No FaceTime. No texting. No social media. Just two teenagers on opposite coasts, occasionally running into each other at "Top of the Pops" or some radio event.
"Who had time to not get along?" Gibson said. "We were both doing our own things."
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Once they actually had time to hang out — when they made Mega Python vs. Gatoroid together in 2011 — they became real friends.
They toured together. Stayed friends. The rivalry was always fiction.
Still Explaining in 2026
Here we are in 2026, and Gibson's still having to explain they aren't enemies. Still getting asked about a fight that never happened.
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Two talented women built successful careers at the same time. They didn't need to be rivals for both to win. They never were.
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Turns out, there never should have been one in the first place.
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