CELEBRITY
Exclusive: I adore him and can’t keep denying that he deserves me.” Kim Kardashian confessed to Taylor that she intended to take Travis Kelce from her.
Kardashian, who was married to West at the time, responded to Swift’s denial by releasing an edited recording of a phone call between the singer and the rapper, which largely led fans to believe otherwise.
Taylor Swift fans have speculated that one of the tracks from her newly-released album, The Tortured Poets Department, is a swipe aimed at Kim Kardashian.
Swift’s 11th studio album was released on Friday, two months after she announced it while accepting the Grammy Award for Best Album in February.
And with the “Bad Blood” hitmaker being known for writing about elements of her relationships in her music, fans quickly noted that “thanK you aIMee,” one of the tracks on her new album, could be about the reality star and businesswoman Kardashian.
A post shared by Pop Crave on X, formerly Twitter, pointed out that the capitalized letters in the song’s title spell out the name Kim. A host of X users subsequently tagged Kardashian’s account on the platform as they discussed the track.
The lyrics speak of an “Aimee” who bullied Swift while they were at school together. “All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’,” she sings. “And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel / Screamed ‘F*** you, Aimee’ to the night sky, as the blood was gushin’ / But I can’t forget the way you made me heal.”
“I don’t think you’ve changed much,” she adds. “And so I changed your name, and any real defining clues / And one day, your kid comes home singin’ / A song that only us two is gonna know is about you.”
Newsweek has contacted representatives of Kardashian and Swift via email for comment.
While Swift, 34, and Kardashian, 43, did not go to school together, they have had public disagreements in the past. This largely stemmed from Kardashian’s then-husband, Kanye “Ye” West’s 2016 track “Famous,” in which he made a vulgar reference to the pop star, which she denied approving.
West, who has since legally changed his name to Ye, rapped on the track: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b**** famous.”
He was referring to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), where he stormed onto the stage after Swift won Best Female Music Video. West took the microphone out of Swift’s hands to declare that Beyoncé should have won instead.
The moment went down in music history and led to both Swift and West talking about it in interviews and writing songs about it. They eventually reconciled and in 2015, Swift presented West with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs. However, the release of “Famous” the following year reignited the bad blood between them.
At the time, a spokesperson for Swift told People: “Kanye did not [Swift] call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single ‘Famous’ on her Twitter account… She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that b**** famous.’”