Taylor Swift simply quietly edited the track title of “thanK you aIMee” to “thank You aimEe” for the discharge of the stay model she carried out in London in June — and the delicate distinction is talking volumes for Swifties.
Days after the 14-time Grammy winner’s The Tortured Poets Division secured its 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart — stopping Ye (a.okay.a. Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s joint album Vultures 2 from reaching the highest spot — Swift seemingly took a jab on the Chicago rapper.
Swift, 34, launched the stay mashup of “thank You aimEe” and “Imply,” which she blended collectively at her June 22 Eras Tour present, on Thursday, Aug. 15. The unique title’s capital letters have been stylized to spell out KIM, with the track a few bully purported to be Kim Kardashian.
Now, the capital letters within the title — “thank You aimEe” — spell out YE, seemingly marking the most recent growth of their years-long feud.
Within the Tortured Poets track, Swift sings: “All that point you have been throwing punches, I used to be constructing one thing / And I can’t forgive the best way you made me really feel / Screamed ‘F— you, Aimee’ to the night time sky, because the blood was gushing / However I can’t neglect the best way you made me heal.”
Apart from Ye interrupting Swift’s 2009 MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech, the rapper additionally included these lyrics in his 2016 track “Well-known”: “I really feel like me and Taylor would possibly nonetheless have intercourse/Why? I made that bitch well-known.” He then claimed she permitted the lyrics. Nevertheless, Swift’s consultant denied that she had been made conscious of the lyrics, “I made that bitch well-known.” Kardashian supported Ye all through that feud.
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Whereas Swift has by no means acknowledged who “thanK you aIMee” (or “thank You aimEe”) is about, listeners shortly pointed to the “KIM” being Kardashian and now the “YE” being her ex-husband.
“We love a shady queen,” one individual mentioned on X (previously Twitter), whereas one other wrote, ”Taylor altering the letters in thanks aimee from ‘Kim’ to ‘Ye’ is a VERY rep coded factor for her to do🐍.”
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The track title change comes as Swifties are impatiently awaiting the discharge of Popularity (Taylor’s Model), which is the re-recorded model of her 2017 album that got here out after the feud with the then-couple.
