Between Kendrick Lamar, Drake and even J. Cole, rap followers have been devouring their favourite flavors of beef all month lengthy. However now, pop followers assume Taylor Swift is serving up her personal heaping serving to of piping sizzling battle together with her outdated rival, Kim Kardashian.
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With the shock, 2 a.m. launch of The Tortured Poets Division: The Anthology, a whole, double-album model of the Swift’s lengthy awaited eleventh studio album, followers appear to assume that her tune “Thank You Aimee” is aimed on the actuality star she’s been feuding with since 2016.
For starters, followers pointed to the unusual capitalization of the tune’s title throughout all streaming providers. Billed as “thanK you aIMee,” Swifties clocked that the three capitalized letters within the title spell out “KIM.”
That development continued when the Taylor Nation X account tweeted the chorus’ lyrics “Screamed, ‘f–Okay you aIMee’ to the night time sky,” alongside a GIF of Swift performing in the course of the Popularity portion of her Eras Tour set. Not solely did followers latch onto the continued spelling of “KIM” via capitalized letters, however additionally they glommed onto the truth that Popularity was impressed, partly, by Swift’s ongoing feud with Kardashian and her then-husband Ye (previously often called Kanye West).
Followers additionally pointed to quite a lot of the excoriating lyrics all through the tune, which sees Swift apparently reminiscing on a high-school bully (the titular Aimee) and the influence she had on the pop star’s life. With the opening line, “Once I image my hometown/ There’s a bronze spray-tanned statue of you,” Swifties rapidly pointed out the usage of the phrases “spray-tanned,” doubtlessly referencing Kardashian’s well-known tan.
Within the tune’s third verse, Swift sings that she “wrote a thousand songs that you just discover uncool,” and “constructed a legacy which you’ll be able to’t undo,” whereas including that “there wouldn’t be this, if there hadn’t been you.” Followers theorized that the lyric referenced the notorious leaked cellphone name and subsequent snake emoji tweet that Kardashian shared in 2016, cases that followers consider deeply influenced Swift’s writing on Popularity.
Maybe probably the most talked-about lyric on “Thank You Aimee” comes in the course of the bridge, when Swift goes after her bully’s lack of improvement. “I don’t assume you’ve modified a lot. And so I modified your title, and any actual defining clues,” she sings, with followers pointing on the obfuscated title all through the tune’s lyrics. Swifties then pointed to a video of Kardashian and her daughter North West dancing to Swift’s “Shake It Off” as proof for the bridge’s last lyric: “And someday, your child comes house singin’/ A tune that solely us two is gonna know is about you.”
Swift final spoke about her feud with each Kardashian and Ye throughout her wide-ranging interview as TIME’s Individual of the 12 months in December 2023. “You may have a completely manufactured body job, in an illegally recorded cellphone name, which Kim Kardashian edited after which put out to say to everybody that I used to be a liar,” Swift stated in the course of the interview. “That took me down psychologically to a spot I’ve by no means been earlier than. I moved to a international nation. I didn’t depart a rental home for a 12 months. I used to be afraid to get on cellphone calls. I pushed away most individuals in my life as a result of I didn’t belief anybody anymore. I went down actually, actually onerous.”
Hearken to “Thank You Aimee” and see just some fan reactions to the brand new monitor under: