It seems like Taylor Swift‘s feud with Kanye “Ye” West and Kim Kardashian won’t ever finish. Amid her ongoing Eras Tour, the 34-year-old worldwide pop icon launched the stay model of her The Tortured Poets Division track “thanK you aIMee” — a rumored dig on the 43-year-old actuality TV star — and made a slight tweak to the title. As a substitute of capitalizing the letters “KIM,” the stay model’s title has the letters “YE” capitalized.
Upon the album’s launch, Swifties have been satisfied that “thanK you aIMee” was a sly jab at Kim over her and Taylor’s long-term feud. Now that the track title has Ye’s title capitalized, followers consider that the title change is a diss in opposition to the 47-year-old “Stronger” rapper.
All through the monitor, Taylor sings a few highschool bully named “Aimee.” In a single verse of the track, she factors out the “legacy” that she constructed.
Taylor Swift’s updates “thanK you aIMee” in new ‘TTPD’ digital launch to capitalize YE.
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“I wrote a thousand songs that you simply discover uncool / I constructed a legacy which you can’t undo,” Taylor 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.”
Within the refrain, Taylor describes the muse she was constructing whereas “Aimee” tormented her.
“All that point you have been throwing punches / I used to be constructing one thing,” she sings. “And I can’t forgive the best way you made me really feel / Screamed F**okay you, Aimee to the night time sky / Because the blood was gushing / However I can’t neglect the best way you made me heal.”
Taylor’s rift with Ye and Kim dates again to 2009. That yr, Taylor received the award for Greatest Feminine Video on the MTV Video Music Awards, however Ye interrupted her acceptance speech by claiming that Beyoncé had “top-of-the-line movies of all time.” An embarrassed Taylor fell silent as Ye walked away. Years later, the man music artists patched issues up and have become associates. In actual fact, Taylor was even photographed with each Ye and his then-wife, Kim, on the Grammys in 2015. Nevertheless, every little thing modified one yr later when Ye launched his track “Well-known,” which incorporates a dig at Taylor. After the “Karma” artist contested the lyric, Kim launched movies of a cellphone name between Taylor and Ye, wherein Taylor was heard agreeing with a portion of the lyric. The pop singer confronted harsh criticism on social media and took a hiatus from the highlight on account of the battle.
Throughout her December 2023 TIME cowl story, Taylor defined how the ordeal with Kim and Ye affected her private life.
“You’ve got a totally 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,” the “Love Story” singer claimed. “That took me down psychologically to a spot I’ve by no means been earlier than. … 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 laborious.”
