Kim Kardashian Buries the Hatchet with 'Super Talented' Taylor Swift
Kim Kardashian seems ready to officially bury the hatchet with Taylor Swift after the pair's public falling out years ago.
During an interview on her sister Khloé Kardashian's"Wonder Land" podcast released Wednesday, January 21, Kardashian revealed she has "all" of Swift's music on her playlist and praised the singer as "super talented." That's a huge departure from how Kim and her ex-husband Kanye West have spoken about Swift in the past.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's Feud with Taylor Swift Dates Back to 2016
Things between Kim and Swift soured back in 2016 after the Skims founder and West secretly recorded a phone call with the pop star about West's song "Famous." Though the rapper insisted Swift approved the song, which contains the lyric "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that bitch famous," Swift denied the allegation.
In February 2016 New York Times writer Jon Caramanica shared a statement from Swift's team that indicated the singer did not approve the song and/or its lyrics before it was released. A spokesperson for Swift told Caramanica, "Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his song 'Famous' on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, 'I made that bitch famous.'"
Months later in June 2016 Kim insisted Swift was lying. She told GQ, "She totally approved that. "She totally knew that that was coming out. She wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn't. I swear, my husband gets so much shit for things [when] he really was doing proper protocol and even called to get it approved. What rapper would call a girl that he was rapping a line about to get approval?"
Taylor Swift Referenced the Feud in a New Song in 2017
Swift traded denials with Kim and West for a bit in 2016, and then seemed to go quiet on the topic until her song "Look What You Made Me Do" was released in 2017. At the beginning of her 2018 tour in promotion of her album Reputation, Swift told the crowd, "A couple of years ago, someone called me a snake on social media and it caught on. Then a lot of people were calling me a lot of things on social media. And I went through some really low times for a while because of it. I went through some times when I didn’t know if I was going to get to do this anymore."
Kim claimed in 2019 that everyone in involved in the saga was past it, though Swift discussed the feud in an August 2019 Vogue interview.
"A mass public shaming, with millions of people saying you are quote-unquote canceled, is a very isolating experience," Swift said. "I don’t think there are that many people who can actually understand what it’s like to have millions of people hate you very loudly. When you say someone is canceled, it’s not a TV show. It’s a human being. You’re sending mass amounts of messaging to this person to either shut up, disappear, or it could also be perceived as, Kill yourself."
Taylor Swift Brought the Drama Up Again in 2023
In an interview for her TIME Magazine Person of the Year designation, Swift insisted her career was "taken away from me" in part by the drama.
"You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar. That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before," she also said.
Many fans also believed her 2024 song "thanK you aIMee" was a direct reference to Kim and the feud. The song contains the lyrics, "I don’t think you’ve changed much/And so I changed your name, and any real defining clues/And one day, your kid comes home singin'/A song that only us two is gonna know is about you."
In April 2024, a source close to Kim told People that she is "over it and thinks Taylor should move on. [She] doesn’t get why [Taylor] keeps harping on it. It’s been literally years."
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