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Taylor Swift Compares Kim Kardashian to a High School Bully on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
Taylor Swift was anticipated to call out her exes on her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department — however it was Kim Kardashian who got the harshest blow.
In the 2nd batch of tunes for the album, launched in the early hours of Friday, April 19, one tune, “thanK you aIMee,” appeared to have actually random letters capitalized in its title. Upon closer appearance, nevertheless, eagle-eyed fans rapidly recognized the uppercase defined a name: Kim.
Swifties will understand that Swift, 34, has actually long put surprise messages in her lyrics through capitalization, a custom she maintained for every single album up until the release of CredibilityShe brought the video game back, nevertheless, when launching hints about TTPD leading up to the record’s release.
Beyond it’s title, “thanK you aIMee” wastes no time at all pulling punches, with Swift opening the tune by declaring that when she photos her home town– probably Los Angeles– there’s a “bronze spray-tanned statue” of “Aimee” with a “plaque below it that threatens to press me down the stairs at our school.”
The track is filled with high school allegory, placing “Aimee” as Swift’s teenage-style bully that the pop star one day imagined besting.
“All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’/ And I can’t forgive the method you made me feel/ Screamed ‘F– k you, Aimee’ to the night sky, as the blood was gushin’,” she simmers on the track, before providing her bane some credit: “But I can’t forget the method you made me recover.”
Somewhere else in the tune, Swift argues that it was never ever a “reasonable battle” in between the 2 ladies, or a “tidy kill.” She mentions “Aimee”– or let’s simply state it, Kardashian– “stomping throughout” her “tomb” and composing headings “making fun of each child action I ‘d take.”
Swift and Kardashian’s fight has a long history, which started with the truth star’s now ex-husband, Kanye West, getting on phase at the MTV VMAs in 2009 to state that Beyoncé should have an award that Swift had actually simply won. In 2016, Swift called West out for rapping the line “Me and Taylor still may make love/ I made that b– h popular” in among his tunes, triggering Kardashian to come to his defense by launching a telephone call in between the 2 artists.
Kardashian likewise published a lot of snakes for “National Snake Day” that year to call out Swift. The vocalist returned with a revenge for her 2017 “vengeance” album Credibility