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Taylor Swift Disses Kim Kardashian on ‘Thank You Aimee,’ Fans Believe
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 suppose Taylor Swift is serving up her personal heaping serving to of piping scorching battle together with her previous rival, Kim Kardashian.
With the shock, 2 a.m. launch of The Tortured Poets Division: The Anthology, a whole, double-album model of the Swiftâs lengthy awaited eleventh studio album, followers appear to suppose that her track âThank You Aimeeâ is aimed on the actuality star sheâs been feuding with since 2016.
For starters, followers pointed to the unusual capitalization of the trackâs title throughout all streaming companies. Billed as âthanK you aIMee,â Swifties clocked that the three capitalized letters within the title spell out âKIM.â
That pattern continued when the Taylor Nation X account tweeted the chorusâ lyrics âScreamed, âfâOk you aIMeeâ to the evening sky,â alongside a GIF of Swift performing through the Status portion of her Eras Tour set. Not solely did followers latch onto the continued spelling of âKIMâ by means of capitalized letters, however additionally they glommed onto the truth that Status was impressed, partly, by Swiftâs ongoing feud with Kardashian and her then-husband Ye (previously referred to as Kanye West).
Followers additionally pointed to numerous the excoriating lyrics all through the track, which sees Swift apparently reminiscing on a high-school bully (the titular Aimee) and the affect she had on the pop starâs life. With the opening line, âAfter I image my hometown/ Thereâs a bronze spray-tanned statue of you,â Swifties rapidly pointed out using the phrases âspray-tanned,â probably referencing Kardashianâs well-known tan.
Within the trackâs third verse, Swift sings that she âwrote a thousand songs that you simply discover uncool,â and âconstructed a legacy which you’llât undo,â whereas including that âthere wouldnât be this, if there hadnât been you.â Followers theorized that the lyric referenced the notorious leaked cellphone name and subsequent snake emoji tweet that Kardashian shared in 2016, cases that followers imagine deeply influenced Swiftâs writing on Status.
Maybe essentially the most talked-about lyric on âThank You Aimeeâ comes through the bridge, when Swift goes after her bullyâs lack of growth. âI donât suppose youâve modified a lot. And so I modified your identify, and any actual defining clues,â she sings, with followers pointing on the obfuscated identify all through the trackâs lyrics. Swifties then pointed to a video of Kardashian and her daughter North West dancing to Swiftâs âShake It Offâ as proof for the bridgeâs closing lyric: âAnd at some point, your child comes residence singinâ/ A track that solely us two is gonna know is about you.â
Swift final spoke about her feud with each Kardashian and Ye throughout her wide-ranging interview as TIMEâs Individual of the 12 months in December 2023. âYou’ve gotten 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,â Swift mentioned through the interview. âThat took me down psychologically to a spot Iâve by no means been earlier than. I moved to a international nation. I didnât depart a rental home for a yr. I used to be afraid to get on cellphone calls. I pushed away most individuals in my life as a result of I didnât belief anybody anymore. I went down actually, actually onerous.â
Hearken to âThank You Aimeeâ and see only a few fan reactions to the brand new monitor beneath: