Kim Kardashian Says “Life Is Good” After Perceived Taylor Swift Diss Track

Regardless of acknowledging The Tortured Poets Division, Taylor Swift’s record-breaking double album, throughout his opening monologue, Jimmy Kimmel avoided torturing Monday’s visitor Kim Kardashian concerning the poetry that’s rumored to be impressed by her on the brand new album.

Amid tracks believed to be about The 1975 entrance man Matty Healy, silent movie star Clara Bow, and Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks, there’s a tune known as “thanK you aIMee,” which is considered a diss monitor aimed toward Kardashian. That’s largely due to the capitalization within the title, which spells out “Kim,” plus lyrics that seem to reference the 2 ladies’s long-standing feud.

On the monitor, Swift sings: “And perhaps you’ve reframed it / And in your thoughts, you by no means beat my spirit black and blue. / I don’t assume you’ve modified a lot / And so I modified your title and any actual defining clues / And in the future, your child comes house singing / A tune that solely us two is gonna know is about you,” seemingly referencing Kardashian’s daughter North’s 2023 TikTok, the place she could be seen dancing to Swift’s “Shake It Off.” For the reason that new tune’s launch, Kardashian has reportedly shed greater than 100,000 followers, in keeping with Us Weekly.

However each Kimmel and Kardashian, who appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! to advertise the season finale of American Horror Story: Delicate, stayed mum on all issues Swift. “Life is nice,” Kardashian declared on the high of her phase, the place she spoke about her newest Skims merchandise, rising up on the identical block as Madonna, and the present state of her relationship with Donald Trump: “Hear, I don’t assume he likes me very a lot. However I’m okay. I believe he did superb stuff with jail reform…in order that’s what I’ll deal with.” Kimmel additionally requested Kardashian to debunk a number of non-Swift-generated web rumors about her, together with that she sleeps together with her eyes “barely open.” That one is true, in keeping with Kardashian.

Snoozing with one eye open wouldn’t be the worst behavior to develop in mild of the newest improvement in Swift’s feud with Kardashian, which heated up in 2016 with the discharge of one other monitor: Kanye West’s “Well-known.” That tune contains the lyrics: “I really feel like me and Taylor would possibly nonetheless have intercourse / Why? I made that bitch well-known.” West’s then-wife Kardashian posted a video purportedly of a telephone name through which Swift gave permission for West to drop her title within the tune. On the time, although, Swift was apparently not informed the lyrics would come with calling her a “bitch.”

Swift has mirrored on the incident’s long-lasting influence, telling Time journal final 12 months, “You’ve gotten a completely manufactured body job, in an illegally recorded telephone name, which Kim Kardashian edited after which put out to say to everybody that I used to be a liar. That took me down psychologically to a spot I’ve by no means been earlier than. I moved to a overseas nation. I didn’t depart a rental home for a 12 months. I used to be afraid to get on telephone calls. I pushed away most individuals in my life as a result of I didn’t belief anybody anymore. I went down actually, actually arduous.”

In “thanK you aIMee,” Swift acknowledges that elements of her life wouldn’t have been attainable with out the tune’s muse—whomever they could be. “I wrote a thousand songs that you simply discover uncool. / I constructed a legacy that you could’t undo,” she sings. “However after I depend the scars, there’s a second of fact / That there wouldn’t be this if there hadn’t been you.”