TAYLOR Swift has been accused of “shading” Kim Kardashian in a song on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department.
The singer, 34, appeared to take a swipe at Kim, 43, and her daughter North West, 10, in her 24th track, thanK you aIMee.
Fans online noticed that the capital letters in the 24th track off the new album – which dropped on Friday – spell out “Kim.”
Taylor has famously been locked in a bitter feud with the Skims founder and her ex-husband Kanye West, 46, for years.
“There’s a bronze spray-tanned statue of you and a plaque underneath it / That threatens to push me down the stairs, at our school,” she sings in one line.
In another part of the song, she sings, “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.
“‘Cause all that time you were throwing punches.”
She appeared to be alluding to Kim and North dancing to Taylor’s 2014 hit, Shake It Off, on their joint TikTok in January 2023.
The song received mixed feedback online, with some praising it while others told Taylor to “move on.”
“She needs to grow, she is like 32? And still shading people for a drama that happened 8 years ago. Just solve the problem as adults pls,” one wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
“Shes still not over it? It’s been years,” another pointed out and a third wrote, “Girl move on. It’s been eight years.”
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“Kim is over omg,” someone else wrote and another added, “Oh Kanye and Kim you’re ended again…”
Others poked fun at what they assumed would be Kris Jenner’s reaction to the track, sharing gifs of the momager looking horrified.
WAR OF WORDS
Taylor and Kim’s feud began after Kanye famously ran up on the VMAs stage in 2009 interrupting Taylor’s Best Female Video win for her hit, You Belong With Me.
He grabbed the mic out of Taylor’s hand and said, “Taylor, I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you finish … but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!”
In the years that followed, they released songs that took jabs at each other.
The Yeezy rapper dropped his song “Famous,” which included the lyrics, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b**** famous.”
Taylor said she had never approved being called “that b***” – despite Kanye insisting he had run all the lyrics past her.
Kim shared a supposed phone call where Taylor appeared to agree to her name being used.
Taylor’s bitter feud with Kanye and Kim explained
Taylor Swift has been locked in a nasty feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian for years.
- 2009 – Kanye interrupted Taylor’s VMA win for Best Female Video onstage, saying, “I’m really happy for you and I’mma 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 that he rang to apologize
- 2010 – Taylor performed Innocent, a song rumored to be about Kanye, at the VMAs, singing, “It’s all right / Just wait and see / Your string of lights is still bright to me / Who you are is not where you’ve been”
- 2013 – Kanye took back his apology to the singer, insisting, “I do not have one regret”
- 2015 – The former rivals reunited at the 2015 Grammy Awards and posed together for photos and Taylor later said she “likes him as a person”
- 2016 – Kanye debuted his song, Famous, with the lyrics, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b***h famous”
- 2016 – After Taylor insisted she did not approve the lyric, “I made that b***h famous,” Kim released video footage of her phone call with Kanye
- 2017 – Taylor seemingly referenced their feud in her album, Reputation, teasing the news with videos of a serpent – a nod to the snake emojis posted in her Instagram comments implying she was a liar – and seemed to diss Kanye in her song, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
- 2018 – Taylor said Kim had not released the full recording and asked, “Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that b***h’ in his song? It doesn’t exist because it never happened. You don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to being called ‘that b***’ in front of the entire 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” as it featured a fake naked sculpture of her
- 2020 – The full phone call between Taylor and Kanye was leaked, in which there was no mention of her being called “that b***h”
- 2020 – Kim initially said the call revealed “nothing new” and later backtracked and tweeted, “the only issue I ever had around the situation was that Taylor lied through her publicist who stated that “Kanye never called to ask for permission…” They clearly spoke so I let you all see that. Nobody ever denied the word “b***” was used without her permission.
- 2023 – Taylor said in a TIME interview that the feud with Kim and Kanye felt like a “career death” and “took her down psychologically”
“She totally approved that, she wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn’t,” she told GQ.
Taylor insisted that wasn’t the full recording of the call and was vindicated in 2020 when the unedited version of her and Kanye’s call was leaked.
She later revealed that the feud with Kanye and Kim “took her down psychologically,” and made her “push people away.”
The Cruel Summer hitmaker reflected on their war of words when she was crowned TIME magazine’s Person of the Year in 2023.
“That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year,” she told the outlet.
“I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore.
“I went down really, really hard.”
