Since the release Friday of Taylor Swift's latest album “The Tortured Poet's Department” and her surprise double album “The Tortured Poet's Department: The Anthology,” Swifties have been quick to point out subtle nods to relationships and past traumas – including an ongoing feud with Kim. Kardashian.
In Swift's track titled “thanK you aIMee,” Swift sings about a “tan, spray tan” mean girl at school who her mother wished was “dead.”
“All the while you were throwing punches, I was building something / And I can't forgive the way you made me feel / I screamed 'F— you, Aimée' into the night sky, as the blood gushed,'” she sings. “But I can’t forget the way you made me heal.”
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The feud between Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian dates back to 2016. (Getty Images)
Although she doesn't directly name Kardashian, the track's title has three capital letters: KIM.
“I don't think you've changed much/And so I changed your name and all the real defining clues,” Swift sings on the track. “And one day your child comes home singing/A song only the two of us will know is about you.”
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The ongoing feud dates back to 2016, when Kanye West, then-husband of the Skims creator, explained that he and Swift “might still have sex” because he “made that asshole famous.”
Kardashian posted a clip of a recorded phone call between Swift and West discussing the lyrics that would appear in the rapper's next track, “Famous.” Swift claims she never approved the lyrics; Kardashian said otherwise.
Kanye West calls Swift a “b—-” in his song “Famous.” (Getty)
The backlash took a toll on Swift's mental health after she was called a “liar.”
“Massive public humiliation, with millions of people saying you've been canceled, quote unquote, is a very isolating experience,” she said. said in an interview with Vogue in 2019. “When you say someone is canceled, it's not a TV show. It's a human being. You're sending massive amounts of messages to that person to shut up, go away, or it could also be perceived as 'Follow you'.
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“Being falsely portrayed as a liar when I was never told the full story or played any part of the song is a defamation of character. I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, to which I have no never asked to be a part, since 2009,” she wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post.
Swift surprised fans by releasing a double album on Friday. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for the Recording Academy)
Swift addressed the scandal with several diss tracks on her 2017 album “Reputation,” from “Call It What You Want” to “Look What You Made Me Do.”
After being named Time's Person of the Year in 2023, Swift called the feud a “dark” moment and claimed she fled to “a foreign country” where she “didn't leave a rental house for one year “.
“It took me psychologically to a place I had never been before,” she recalled in her profile in Time. “I moved to a foreign country. I didn't leave a rental house for a year.
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“I was afraid of getting phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn't trust anyone anymore. I was really, really hard.”
Most notably, the albums touch not only on her six-year relationship with ex Joe Alwyn, but also her whirlwind romance with 1975 musician Matty Healy.
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn dated for six years and kept their relationship extremely private. (Jackson Lee/GC Images)
“The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and feelings from a fleeting and fatalistic moment – a moment both sensational and painful,” the pop icon wrote on Instagram in tandem with the album. release. “This period of the author's life is now over, the chapter closed and barricaded. There is nothing to avenge, no score to settle once the wounds have healed. And upon reflection, many of them are are revealed to be self-inflicted. “This writer firmly believes that our tears become holy as ink on a page. Once we tell our saddest story, we can free ourselves from it. “
On her opening track “Fortnight” — which features Post Malone — the singer describes a brief relationship that quickly turned sour.
Taylor Swift and Matty Healy briefly dated after her six-year relationship with Joe Alwyn ended in 2023. (Getty Images)
“And no one here is to blame/But what about your quiet betrayal?” she sings. “I took the miracle drug/The effects were temporary/And I love you, it's ruining my life.”
On her track “Down Bad” – which appears to refer to the aftermath of her breakup with Alwyn – Swfit sings: “Did you take all my old clothes just to leave me here naked and alone/ In a field in my same old town that , somehow it seems so hollow now… How dare you think it's romantic/Leaving me safe and stranded.
Another track titled “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart,” Swift sings, “He said he'd love me all his life/ But that life was too short… He said he'd love me forever / But that time was quite short.
While the albums have only just been released, fans are still actively decoding the lyrics – and sharing their thoughts on the subtle clues.
Taylor Swift celebrated with Travis Kelce on the field after her Super Bowl victory. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Fans believe her song “The Alchemy” is about her most recent romance with NFL player Travis Kelce.
Swift sings: “So when I land, call the amateurs and kick them off the team.” People think that “landing” and “team” are an obvious nod to football.
Towards the end of the song, Swift's lyrics appear to reference the Super Bowl champion. “Take off your jersey and your friends lift you above their heads / Beer sticks to the ground / Loud cheers 'cause they said there's no chance / Trying to be the best in the league / Where's the trophy? / He just ran towards me.”
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