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Breaking News: Taylor Swift lyrics appear to take aim at Kim Kardashian on new album
Since Friday’s release of Taylor Swift’s latest album “The Tortured Poets Department” and her surprise double album “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” Swifties have been quick to point out subtle nods to past relationships and traumas — including an ongoing feud with Kim Kardashian.
In Swift’s track titled “thanK you aIMee,” Swift sings about a “bronze, spray-tanned” mean girl at school that her mom wishes were “dead.”
“All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’ / And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel / Screamed ‘F— you, Aimee’ to the night sky, as the blood was gushing,’” she sings. “But I can’t forget the way you made me heal
While Swift doesn’t directly name Kardashian, the track’s title capitalizes three letters: K-I-M.
“I don’t think you’ve changed much/ And so I changed your name, and any real defining clues,” Swift sings on the track. “And one day, your kid comes home singin’/ A song that only us two is gonna know is about you.”
Representatives for Swift and Kardashian did not return Fox News Digital’s immediate request for comment.
The ongoing feud goes back to 2016 when the Skims creator’s then-husband Kanye West rapped about how he and Swift “might still have sex” because he “made that b—- famous.”
Kardashian posted a clip of a recorded phone call between Swift and West discussing the lyrics that would appear on the rapper’s upcoming track, “Famous.” Swift claims she never approved of the lyrics; Kardashian said otherwise.
The backlash took a toll on Swift’s mental health after she was branded a “liar.”
“A mass public shaming, with millions of people saying you are quote-unquote canceled, is a very isolating experience,” she said in a 2019 interview with Vogue. “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.’”
“Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination. I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be part of, since 2009,” she wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post.