Taylor Swift apparently is aware of torture her fellow poets — and maintain a grudge or two.
The singer has dropped a number of variants of her album “The Tortured Poets Department” since its launch in April to guard her No. 1 perch atop the Billboard 200 charts, and simply did so once more — this time beating Kanye West and his new “Vultures 2” album.
“Poets” has now held 14 nonconsecutive weeks on the high of the charts; “Vultures 2” debuted at No. 2.
Swifties on social media are celebrating the stunt, which arguably proved that there there’s nonetheless unhealthy blood between Swift and West. The rapper infamously ruined Swift’s 2009 MTV Video Music Awards second and dissed her in his 2016 track “Famous.”
Eagle-eyed followers have additionally seen that Swift has quietly modified how she spells the title of a track on the album, beforehand titled “thanK you aIMee.” The upper-case letters, spelling out “KIM,” have been a rumored slight towards Kim Kardashian. For her new, stay model, the track title is “thank You aimEe” — and the upper-case letters spell out “YE.”
Swift and West, who modified his title to “Ye” in 2021, appeared cordial within the years after the VMAs incident, however Ye later went on to ponder having intercourse with Swift on “Famous” — and rapped that he “made that bitch” standard.
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West claimed that Swift had totally accepted of his lyrics, which the “Wildest Dreams” singer denied, just for Kardashian, who was married to West on the time, to launch an edited video of a telephone name between Swift and West that falsely recommended Swift had utterly accepted of West’s lyrics and supposed joke.
“You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,” Swift instructed Time in 2023. “That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before.”
“I moved to a foreign country,” she continued. “I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.”
Swift has by no means acknowledged who impressed the “Aimee” monitor, however the lyrics are suggestive.
“All that time you were throwing punches, I was building something,” she sings within the track. “And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel, screamed ‘Fuck you, Aimee’ to the night sky, as the blood was gushing — but I can’t forget the way you made me heal.”
