America’s Sweetheart, Taylor Swift, has been involved in many feuds, When her pop song Bad Blood was released over a year ago, it was understood, yet never confirmed by Swift that it was directly aimed at fellow singer, Katy Perry. She’s been making headlines recently after breaking up with her longtime beau, producer, Calvin Harris. She wrote his latest hit under a pseudonym and post break-up, announced she was the writer on the song, prompting Harris to tweet, alluding to Swift trying to “bury” Katy Perry in their feud last year.
https://twitter.com/CalvinHarris/status/753258935432294400
https://twitter.com/CalvinHarris/status/753259873035399168
The Kanye West feud seemed to start at the 2009 MTV Music awards when he jumped on the stage during her acceptance speech and famously said “I’mma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!” Flash forward to 2016, when he releases his new song, Famous, where he says “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that ***** famous.” Naturally, the Taynye fight continues. Taylor gets on stage at the Grammy’s to accept her award and calls out Kanye, saying ” there are going to be people along the way who try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.”
https://youtu.be/xPOPtQIEQt0
But wait, there’s more. Around the time of the release, Taylor’s people released a statement saying “Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single ‘Famous’ on her Twitter account. … She declined.” Last night, on the heels of the new Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian put up a video on her Snapchat from before the song was released. It was a video of Kanye on the phone with Taylor Swift on speakerphone reading her the line from his song, and asking permission to use it, and not only does Taylor agree to it, she tells him she’ll help promote it on the red carpet, and when the media starts to bring up the feud again, she’ll say “Joke’s on you, he called me.”
To which Taylor was quick to respond.
https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/754894689900359680
What are your thoughts on the topic? Are Kimye being really evil? Is Taylor just playing the victim?
-Kristin
