Inside Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian's Feud — From Love-In to Kanye West Bust-Up, Diss Track and Lyrics Fury
2009: Kim Kardashian Expressed Her Love for Taylor Swift
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Kim Kardashian expressed her love for Taylor Swift when she revealed the No. 1 song on her iPod was "Love Story."
the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum said: "I love Taylor Swift! I'm the biggest Taylor Swift fan."
Swift and Kardashian were pictured together at several events in the months thereafter.
June 2016: Kim Kardashian Joined Taylor Swift and Kanye West's Feud
Kanye West interrupted Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards while delivering her speech when she won the Best Female Video Award.
Years after the pair exchanged tirades, West's then-wife joined the feud by claiming the Jesus Is King rapper called the champagne problems singer for approval of the line in his track Famous.
Swift, according to Kardashian's GQ profile, reportedly knew about the video that captured the phone call.
A representative for the So Long, London singer responded to the beauty mogul's claim, saying the singer could not understand why the then-couple wouldn't leave her alone.
July 2016: A Video of Taylor Swift Allegedly Approving Kanye West's Lyric Emerged
In an episode of KUWTK, Kardashian expressed her frustration amid their lingering feud.
She said: "I've had it with people blatantly treating my husband a certain way and making him look a certain way; I'm gonna say how I feel."
Kardashian soon revealed the video that allegedly showed Swift approving West's idea in his Famous lyric and music video.
Swift responded via Instagram: "Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination."
August 2017: Taylor Swift Dropped 'Look What You Made Me Do'
Swift went on a hiatus following Kardashian and West's non-stop outbursts. She returned in 2017 and dropped her scathing track Look What You Made Me Do from her album Reputation.
Swifties said it was the pop singer's way of addressing her long, public feud with West, as one of its lines read: "I don't like your little games / I don't like your tilted stage / I don't like you."
November 2017: Taylor Swift Dragged KimYe More in Her 'Reputation' Album
Look What You Made Me Do was only the start of Swift's payback against the then-couple.
Many speculated that more tracks from her Reputation album were aimed at West and Kardashian, including I Did Something Bad and This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things.
2019: Kim Kardashian Claimed They Ended Their Feud
During Kardashian's appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the KKW Beauty founder claimed she was over the leaked phone calls feud with Swift.
She said: "I feel like we'd all moved on."
However, Swift soon called them bullies who started an internet hate campaign that pulled her down.
Swift told Elle Magazine: "In my experience, I've come to see that bullies want to be feared and taken seriously.
"A few years ago, someone started an online hate campaign by calling me a snake on the internet. The fact that so many people jumped on board with it led me to feeling lower than I've ever felt in my life.
"It would be nice if we could get an apology from people who bully us, but maybe all I'll ever get is the satisfaction of knowing I could survive it, and thrive in spite of it."
June 2019: Taylor Swift Branded the 'Famous' Music Video a 'Revenge P---'
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Swift opened up about West's music video for Famous and how it became a "revenge p---" that stripped her body naked.
At the time, she was also entangled in a feud over recording rights with music mogul Scooter Braun, who purchased the rights to her first six albums.
The feud led to Swift re-recording and releasing the albums Braun held the rights to as "taylor's version".
September 2019: Taylor Swift Detailed the Phone Call Story
Speaking with Rolling Stone for its cover story, the You Belong With Me hitmaker disclosed her side in the infamous phone call with the Yeezy creator.
she shared: "Some events took place to cause me to be pissed off when he called me a b----.
"That was not just a singular event. Basically, I got really sick of the dynamic between he and I. And that wasn't just based on what happened on that phone call and with that song — it was kind of a chain reaction of things."
Swift also claimed West misled her from the get-go.
March 2020: The Infamous Phone Call Was Leaked
The world discovered the truth about the phone call when a leaked video showing West speaking with Swift spread on X.
In the clip, the Midnight Rain singer said she was relieved after learning she was not the "stupid d--- b----" in West's song — though the rapper referred to her that way in his release.
Kardashian defended herself and West in an X post, writing: "To be clear, the only issue I ever had around the situation was that Taylor lied through her publicist who stated that 'Kanye never called to ask for permission…' They clearly spoke so I let you all see that. Nobody ever denied the word' b----' was used without her permission."
December 2021: Kim Kardashian Gushed Over Taylor Swift's Songs
Kardashian spoke with Bari Weiss on the Honestly podcast, where she was asked about her favorite Swift album.
She declared: "I really like a lot of her songs. They're all super cute and catchy. I'd have to look in my phone to get a name [of an album]."
December 2023: Taylor Swift Called Out Kim Kardashian
While Kardashian seemingly got over the feud, Swift continuously felt the effect of the ex-couple's bullying, as it reportedly felt like a career death for her. She told TIME when she was named the 2023 Person of the Year that the feud "took [her] down psychologically to a place [she'd] never been before."
She added: "I moved to a foreign country. 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."
April 2024: Taylor Swift Released 'thanK you aIMee'
Swifties believe Swift sings about Kardashian in two songs off her The Tortured Poets Department album, released on April 19. The tracks in question are "Cassandra" and thanK you aIMee — the latter has the letters K, I and M spelled out.
As for Kardashian's reaction, a source told People the reality TV star is over the drama.
the source said: "[Kardashian] doesn't get why [Swift] keeps harping on it. It's been literally years."
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