Taylor Swift, it’s time to “get over” your feud with Kim Kardashian
Taylor Swift hyped up the launch of her “Tortured Poets Oath” by gifting Swifties more Easter eggs to unlock and a SiriusXM channel dedicated to her music.
However, none of that was enough: Two hours after “TTPD’s” release early Friday, the singer announced that there was a second LP titled “The Anthology” — bringing the total to 31 new songs for her fans to a**lyze to death.
It’s safe to say that Swift has outdone herself in this latest endeavor. But why does she insist on undoing any emotional growth she gained by bringing up an old feud from nearly 10 years ago?
Before I dive into this a**lysis of the singer’s need to move on, I feel compelled to be clear: I absolutely adore her music. I find her lyrics incredibly relatable, if not very powerful, and I usually want to listen to her albums while showering in the dark with nothing but a lit candle to leave my tears in the shadows.
No one feels heartbreak and lost dreams like Swift. But no one should write about controversies as much as she does — especially when they’re from a bygone era and she already has an entire album about them (“Reputation” from 2017).
It all started in 2009 when Kanye West interrupted Swift’s speech at the VMAs, though the two seemed to make up for it in 2015 when they posed for photos together at the same awards show.
After one year, that relationship ended.
And now — different eras later — Swift uses a somewhat rudimentary symbol of lowercase and uppercase, and Swift recasts Kim Kardashian as a high school bully in “thanK you aIMee,” the new album’s 24th song. Swift is 34 years old, so why is she singing like she’s 16 again — thinking that high school is the end of all our lives?
“And you might have reworked it / And in your mind, my soul never beat black and blue / I don’t think you’ve changed much / And so you change your name, and any specific clues are real / And one day, your child comes home singing / A song that only you will know Just the two of us, as she sings, in an apparent reference to a TikTok video of Kim and her daughter North West singing “Shake It Off.”
If Kim, 43, is old enough to dance with her daughter to “1989” — knowing it will be newsworthy — then Swift should be old enough to see that as flattery, rather than using it as evidence in… One-sided issue. The war she believes she has won.
Instead, Swift (who coincidentally featured as a viewer of the mother-daughter duo’s video) is writing a story suggesting that she thinks Kim doesn’t know the song is about her. as if. It takes a narcissist to know a narcissist.
Suffice it to say, should Swift point out a 10-year-old who, as fate would have it, appears to be Swifty? of course not.
It’s been eight years since Kim leaked Swift’s famous conversation with Kanye West, in which she approved of the “famous” lyric “I made that b***h famous” — after Swift vehemently denied doing so.
It’s been so much time, in fact, that Kim has not only divorced Kanye, but has already moved on to his second wife, Bianca Sensori. However, the Eras Tour artist still felt compelled to attack the former couple in a second song on “TTPD” titled “Ca*sandra.” — She poses herself as the priestess of Greek myth who warned the world of tragedy but was never believed.
“They knew, they knew, they knew all along / That I was on to something / Family, pure greed, Christian chorus line,” she sings on track 27, in an apparent reference to the Kardashians and West’s previous Sunday services.
“They all said nothing / The blood is thick but nothing like a payroll / I bet they never spared a prayer for my soul / You can spot my words I said first / In the morning warning, no one heard.”
The Kardashian family’s pursuit of a paycheck is nothing new — billionaire Kylie Jenner’s foray into steaming carbonated waters is a desperate attempt to capitalize on this trend in hindsight — but isn’t Swift doing the same by writing songs about a years-old feud?
While Kim revealed the conversation, Swift responded that she wanted to be “excluded from this narrative.” So why reactivate the narrative eight years later?
I also feel compelled to say that no, the Kardashians did not ask for this piece to be written. No doubt my social media would be filled with accusations that Kris Jenner “paid” me to write this, but unfortunately for me, she didn’t.
The new tracks have already sent Swifties up to arms in the war that should have ended against the Kardashian family, with many waking up and deciding to troll the reality star on social media.
There’s no denying Swift’s power and influence on her fans. She jumps, they jump. She cries, they tore her ex-husband apart. But in 2024, where cyberbullying has never been worse, Swift shouldn’t be using her pen to bring people down — especially women who have moved on from their (and their husbands’) problematic pasts.
No one knows better than Swift that the pen is mightier than the sword, so it’s time to start using it to create positive change instead of harping on old arguments. I would say she should look inward and reevaluate, but no one is more self-focused than Taylor Alison Swift.
Then again, if she got past her troubles, we wouldn’t be able to re-record “Taylor’s Version,” which was inspired by her feud with music manager Scooter Braun., Or a 10-minute version of “All Too Well.”
The moment “TTPD” hit airplay, Swift wrote on social media that “this period of the author’s life is now over” and promised listeners that “there is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once the wounds are healed…
“Once we talk about our saddest story, we can be free from it,” she added.
Hopefully we can “break free” from this tired narrative – although we won’t find out until she releases the next album.