Kim Kardashian makes rare comment on Taylor Swift amid long-running feud
Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift are two of the most-followed women on the planet and have reportedly been at odds for the past 10 years.
In 2016, things got heated when Kim's former husband Kanye West dropped his song 'Famous' with the line about the 'Love Story' hitmaker: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that b**ch famous.”
The line was in reference to the 2009 MTV VMAs, when the 'Stronger' rapper interrupted Taylor's acceptance speech for Best Female Video to declare that Beyoncé had 'one of the best videos of all time'.
Kanye suggests that if he didn't burst onto stage to give Taylor clout, she wouldn't have 'made it' - quite silly, I know.
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Anyway, Taylor was pretty furious when 'Famous' came out and accused Ye of not going to her for permission first.
The mum-of-four, meanwhile, posted a snippet of a phone call discussion between her husband and Taylor online, as Kanye said he had 'a hour-long convo with her about the line and she thought it was funny and gave her blessings'.
Then, on Valentine's Day in 2018, Kim took to social media to share a list of who would be receiving her newly released perfume, which showed Taylor named in her 'lovers and haters' list, along with the likes of Wendy Williams, her brother Rob's ex Blac Chyna and Chloë Grace Moretz.
In her 2024 album 'The Tortured Poets Department', Taylor dropped a track titled 'thanK you aIMee', which many speculated was about Kardashian.
“I wrote a thousand songs that you find uncool / I built a legacy that you can't undo / But when I count the scars, there's a moment of truth / That there wouldn't be this if there hadn't been you,” she sings.
Two years later, during a recent episode of Khloé Kardashian's Khloé in Wonder Land podcast, Khloé asks Kim if 'people would be surprised you listen to Taylor Swift?'
To which she simply replied: “I think I’ve said it.
“Yeah, I mean, it’s just — I have some of her older songs in my playlist. I’ve always thought she’s like a super talented great artist.”
In 2009, Kim had previously told Entertainment Tonight that she was a huge fan of Swift's music, adding: "I love Taylor Swift! I’m the biggest Taylor Swift fan."
And in 2019, the All's Fair star told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that she was 'over' the whole thing, saying: "I feel like we’d all moved on."
Meanwhile, in her 2023 article for TIME, Swift said the 'Famous' lyric situation 'took [her] down psychologically to a place [she’d] never been before'.
After the 'thanK you aIMee' song dropped in 2024, a source told PEOPLE that Kim was 'over' their beef, as they continued to say that she 'thinks that Taylor should move on', and 'doesn’t get why [Swift] keeps harping on it'.
LADbible Group has contacted Taylor Swift's representatives for comment.
Topics: Celebrity, Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift
Anish Vij