Taylor Swift took her rivalry with Kim Kardashian to the next level with some thinly veiled jabs during a concert during her Eras Tour in London.
The pop megastar made a surprising comment on stage and turned his diss song about Kim, 43, into a seemingly targeted mashup.
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Taylor, 34, performed her song “thanK you aIMee” during the Eras Tour in London on Saturday.
The hitmaker is currently embarking on a three-night stay at Wembley Stadium with openers including Paramore.
“Thank you AIMee” is from his latest album, The Tortured Poets Department.
The song is known to be about his long-running feud with Kim – as the capital letters in the song’s title blatantly spell out “Kim.”
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Taylor combined the song into a surprising mashup – she mixed it with her classic hit “Mean,” which seemed like a hit in itself.
Not only that, but Taylor had something to say to an audience of 80,000 before performing it.
“Every time someone says shit, it makes me work even harder,” she declared (seen here) with a smile.
“KIM FOUND CRYING”
“Kim Kardashian was found crying,” one X user wrote as the concert clip made the rounds.
“Someone check @KimKardashian because there was a murder in London tonight!!!!” another wrote.
“The way she played this and Mean as a combo and that’s why we love her,” wrote a third.
Other fans think Taylor may have even concluded the mashup by showing the middle finger.
“Call me crazy but I think when she bowed at the end she was holding up a finger,” wrote a third.
Taylor’s comment to introduce the mashup may have been a reference to Kim’s infamous controversial statement about women.
In a 2022 interview with Variety, the billionaire said: “I have the best advice for women in business, get up and work. Seems like no one wants to work these days.
Taylor’s final London gig is tomorrow night as his money-making Eras tour continues.
BAD BLOOD
Kim and Taylor have been feuding for years, which came to a head when she and her ex-husband, Kanye West, recorded a phone call to Taylor in 2016.
The Blank Space singer admitted their fallout felt like “a career death” in a Time Magazine cover interview this year.
“You have a completely fabricated framework, in an illegally recorded phone call, that Kim Kardashian edited and then released to tell everyone that I was a liar,” Taylor said.
“It took me psychologically to a place I had never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid of getting calls telephone calls.”
In June 2016, the rap star released the music video for his song Famous, in which Kanye was lying naked in bed with other naked A-list lookalikes, including Taylor.
Taylor’s bitter feud with Kanye and Kim explained
Taylor Swift has been locked in an ugly feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian for years.
- 2009 – Kanye interrupted Taylor’s VMA win for Best Female Video on stage by saying, “I’m really happy for you and I’m going to let you finish but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.”
- 2009 – Later that month, Kanye admitted he regretted the action and Taylor confirmed he had called to apologize.
- 2010 – Taylor performed Innocent, a song rumored to be about Kanye, at the VMAs, singing: “It’s all good / Wait and see / Your string of lights is still shining bright for me / Who you are is not where you were.”
- 2013 – Kanye reiterated his apologies to the singer, insisting: “I have no regrets”.
- 2015 – The former rivals reunited at the 2015 Grammy Awards and posed for photos together and Taylor later said she “likes him as a person.”
- 2016 – Kanye opened his song, Famous, with the lyrics: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous.”
- 2016 – After Taylor insisted she didn’t approve of the lyric, “I made that bitch famous,” Kim released video footage of her phone call with Kanye.
- 2017 – Taylor apparently referenced their feud in her album, Reputation, announcing the news with videos of a snake – a nod to the snake emojis posted in her Instagram comments, implying she was a liar – and appeared to criticize Kanye in his song, This Is Why. We can’t have nice things.
- 2018 – Taylor said Kim didn’t release the full recording and asked, “Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that bitch’ in his song? It doesn’t exist because “It’s never happened. You can’t control someone’s emotional reaction to being called ‘that bitch’ in front of the whole world.”
- 2019 – Kim insisted in a magazine interview that they had “squashed” their feud.
- 2019 – Taylor claimed Kanye’s famous music video was “revenge porn” because it featured a fake nude sculpture of her.
- 2020 – The full phone call between Taylor and Kanye has been leaked, in which there was no mention of her being called “that bitch.”
- 2020 – Kim initially said the call revealed “nothing new,” then backtracked and tweeted: “The only problem I had with this situation was that Taylor lied through the through his publicist who said that ‘Kanye never called to ask permission…’ clearly spoke, so I’ll let you all see that No one ever denied the word “slut” was. used without permission.
- 2023 – Taylor said in an interview with Time that the feud with Kim and Kanye felt like a “career death” and “destroyed her psychologically.”
In the single, Kanye raps: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous / I made that bitch famous.”
When the music video was released, Taylor claimed that although she was aware of the lyrics, she didn’t know its name was ab***h, despite the fact that Kanye’s wife at the time, Kim, claimed the opposite.
Kim then posted a clip of a phone call between the Yeezy mogul and Taylor to “prove” she knew the lyrics.
In the leaked phone call, it was clear that Kanye mentioned he would release a song with his name on it, but he didn’t explicitly share what the lyrics would be.
The Skims mogul later said in an interview with GQ, “She totally approved of it; she suddenly wanted to act like she didn’t.”
This, of course, all goes back to when Kanye stormed the stage at the 2009 VMAs when Taylor won Video of the Year.
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