Taylor Swift has taken her feud with Kim Kardashian to the next level with some thinly veiled jabs while performing live at her Eras Tour in London.
The pop megastar made a surprising on-stage comment and turned her diss track about Kim, 43, into a seemingly targeted mashup.
Taylor, 34, performed her tune “thanK you aIMee” at the Eras Tour in London on Saturday.
The hitmaker is currently embarking on a three-night stay at Wembley Stadium with openers like Paramore.
“thanK you AIMee” is from her latest LP, The Tortured Poets Department.
The song is known to be about her longtime feud with Kim – as the capitalized letters in the song title blatantly spell out “Kim.”
Taylor combined the song into a surprising mashup – she mixed it with her classic hit “Mean,” which seemed to be a jab in itself.
Not only that, but Taylor had something to say to an audience of 80,000 before playing it.
“Every time someone talks sh**, it makes me work even harder,” she declared with a smile.
‘KIM FOUND CRYING’
“Kim Kardashian was found crying,” one X user wrote as the concert clip made the rounds.
“The way she performed that and Mean as a combo and that’s why we love her,” wrote another.
Other fans think Taylor may have even concluded the mashup by flashing the middle finger.
“Call me crazy but I think when she bowed at the end she was holding up one finger,” wrote a third.
Taylor’s comment to introduce the mashup may have been referring to Kim’s controversial infamous statement about women.
In a 2022 Variety interview, the billionaire said, “I have the best advice for women in business, get your f**king a** up and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days.”
Taylor’s last London show is tomorrow night as her money-raking Eras tour continues.
BAD BLOOD
Kim and Taylor have been in a years-long feud, which hit a fever pitch when she and her ex-husband, Kanye West, recorded a phone call to Taylor in 2016.
The Blank Space singer admitted that their fallout felt like “a career death” in a Time Magazine cover interview this year.
“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,” Taylor said.
“That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls.”
In June 2016, the rap music star released the music video for his song, Famous, which had Kanye lying naked in bed along with other A-lister lookalikes in the nude – including Taylor.
Taylor’s bitter feud with Kanye and Kim explained
Taylor Swift has been locked in a nasty feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian for years.
- 2009 – Kanye interrupted Taylor’s VMA win for Best Female Video onstage, saying, “I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you finish but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.”
- 2009 – Later that month, Kanye admitted he regretted the action and Taylor confirmed that he rang to apologize.
- 2010 – Taylor performed Innocent, a song rumored to be about Kanye, at the VMAs, singing, “It’s all right / Just wait and see / Your string of lights is still bright to me / Who you are is not where you’ve been.”
- 2013 – Kanye took back his apology to the singer, insisting, “I do not have one regret.”
- 2015 – The former rivals reunited at the 2015 Grammy Awards and posed together for photos and Taylor later said she “likes him as a person.”
- 2016 – Kanye debuted his song, Famous, with the lyrics, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b***h famous.”
- 2016 – After Taylor insisted she did not approve of the lyric, “I made that b***h famous,” Kim released video footage of her phone call with Kanye.
- 2017 – Taylor seemingly referenced their feud in her album, Reputation, teasing the news with videos of a serpent – a nod to the snake emojis posted in her Instagram comments implying she was a liar – and seemed to diss Kanye in her song, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.
- 2018 – Taylor said Kim had not released the full recording and asked, “Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that b***h’ in his song? It doesn’t exist because it never happened. You don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to being called ‘that b***h’ in front of the entire world.”
- 2019 – Kim insisted in a magazine interview that they had “squashed” their feud.
- 2019 – Taylor claimed Kanye’s Famous music video was “revenge porn” as it featured a fake naked sculpture of her.
- 2020 – The full phone call between Taylor and Kanye was leaked, in which there was no mention of her being called “that b***h.”
- 2020 – Kim initially said the call revealed “nothing new” and later backtracked and tweeted, “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***h’ was used without her permission.”
- 2023 – Taylor said in a Time interview that the feud with Kim and Kanye felt like a “career death” and “took her down psychologically.”
In the single, Kanye raps, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b***h famous / I made that b***h famous.”
When the music video dropped, Taylor claimed that while she did know about the lyric, she was unaware that she was called a b***h, despite Kanye’s wife at the time, Kim, arguing otherwise.
Kim then released a snippet of a phone call between the Yeezy mogul and Taylor to “prove” that she knew about the lyrics.
In the leaked phone call, it was clear that Kanye did mention he’d be putting out a song with her name in it, but he did not share explicitly what the lyrics wound up being.
The Skims mogul later said in an interview with GQ, “She totally approved that; she wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn’t.”
All of this, of course, stems back to when Kanye stormed the stage at the 2009 VMAs when Taylor won video of the year.
