Did Taylor Swift criticize Kim Kardashian on “thanK you aIMee”? My mother wishes you were dead.
Its reputation continues.
Taylor Swift surprised fans again when she dropped a surprise second batch of songs at 2 a.m. on Friday, making “Tortured Poets Oath” a secret double album.
In one song, “thanK you aIMee,” Swifties were quick to point out that the capital letters spelled out a specific name — Kim.
The 34-year-old musician often hides Easter eggs in her lyrics through capitalization, and this tune in particular takes a dig at a specific person she compares to a high school bully. Swifties are already speculating that it has something to do with Kardashian, 43.
There’s a “tanned bronze statue” of Amy with “a plaque under it threatening to push me down the stairs at our school,” she sings as she describes her hometown.
‘All that time you were throwing punches, I was building something / And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel / I screamed ‘f**k you, Amy’ into the night sky, as the blood flowed. ‘But I can’t forget the way you made me heal “
She goes on to point out that it was never a “fair fight” or a “clean k**l” between the two and described the unnamed person as “trampling” on her “grave.”
Here’s what to know about Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department”:
- The 14-time Grammy Award winner released her long-awaited 11th studio album, “Tortured Poets Oath,” on Friday.
- Swift sent her fans into a frenzy at 2am after revealing the record was a double album. Swift’s belated surprise hit, titled “The Anthology,” includes 15 additional songs, bringing the total to 31 songs.
- Swift initially unveiled her 16-song album at midnight, including collaborations with Post Malone and Florence Welch on two tracks. There are also four bonus tracks, “The Manuscript”, “The Bolter”, “The Albatross” and “The Black Dog” that appear on the various vinyl editions of the album. The four tracks plus 11 new songs are included on “The Anthology”.
- A poem about heartbreak that served as an introduction to the album was written by Fleetwood Mac alum Stevie Nicks.
- There are many celebrity names sprinkled throughout the album’s lyrics, and the mention of singer Charlie Puth surprised some Swifties.
- While some of Swift’s exes haven’t spared “TTPD,” the 34-year-old singer appears to reference her current beau Travis Kelce in the new album’s song “The Alchemy” in an endearing way.
- As for her exes, The 1975 singer Matty Healy is said to be referenced on the powerful 31-song record. In fact, Hailey – who, prior to their summer split, had a rekindled romance with the pop star following her split from British actor Joe Alwyn after six years – appears to be the subject of a vicious “youngest man who ever lived” takedown. However, other fans may speculate that the phrase “sparkling summer” is about Alwyn. There are also hints that “I Can Fix It (I Really Can’t)” — gotta love that title — might be about the 35-year-old Hailey.
- As for Alwyn, Swift dropped hints at their ill-fated 6-year romance for a good — or, for him, not so good — portion of the album. Check out the 10 Alwyn-related references we spotted.
- Read the newspaper’s review of “The Tortured Poets Section” here.
Even more than that, Swift refers to her mother, Andrea Swift, saying: “Everyone knows my mother as a saintly woman/But she used to say she wished you were dead.”
Despite their ongoing feud, Kardashian previously indicated that she listens to Swift, 34. On “thanK you aIMee,” Swift concluded, “And one day, your baby comes home singing a song that only the two of us will know about you.”
Kardashian and ex-husband Kanye West share North, 10, Saint, 8, Chicago, 6, and Psalm, 4. Swift’s flings with the couple began years ago.
It began with the rapper’s infamous 2009 interruption of Swift’s acceptance speech at the Video Music Awards, and continued into 2016, when West released the song “Famous.” In the song, he said: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have s*x / Why? ‘I made that b***h famous'” and claimed that Swift approved of the lyrics.
After Swift denied this, Kardashian released a recording of a conversation that seemed to indicate that Swift was lying and gave the couple the green light. Kardashian also implied that Swift was a “snake.”
In an interview with Time magazine to commemorate Swift’s selection as 2023 Person of the Year, Swift described the controversy as a “bleak” moment and claimed she had fled to a “foreign country” where she “didn’t leave a rented house for a year.”
“I was afraid to make phone calls. I pushed away most of the people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. “I went down really hard.”
In 2019, Kardashian said on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen that the feud was over, but the full phone exchange between West and Swift was released one year later — seemingly revealing that Swift was telling the truth.
“The video didn’t show anything new. We all know that. I’m so confused right now,” Kardashian tweeted at the time.
Meanwhile, Swift shared a direct message on her Instagram Stories in response.
“Instead of responding to those who ask me how I feel about the leaked video, I prove that I was telling the truth all along about that call (you know, the one that was illegally recorded, and that someone edited and manipulated in order to frame me.” And put me, my family, and my fans through hell for 4 years)… Swipe up to see what really matters The link went to a website for the World Health Organization and Feed America, which she has been donating to amid the coronavirus pandemic.