Why Taylor Swift Hasn’t Moved On From Her Kim Kardashian Beef
Eight years ago, Taylor Swift and Kanye West shared a phone call that would later go down in infamy. Somehow, we still haven’t heard the end of it, and at this rate, we probably never will. Ask five people who’s in the wrong in this scenario, and you’re liable to come back with five different answers.
Now, thanks to two pointed tracks on Swift’s newly released The Tortured Poets Department, the drama is being revived—despite nearly a decade having passed since it first started—and West's ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, is at the center. Swifties are passionately divided in their reaction to the star bringing up the whole ordeal again after it had seemingly simmered. The discourse has evolved into one of the most talked about aspects of TTPD’s release, raising the question: What was the point behind Taylor Swift resurfacing the Kim Kardashian drama all over again?
First, a refresher: During the now-curséd 2016 call, Swift and Kanye discussed the rapper’s then-forthcoming song, “Famous.” From here, the narratives completely diverge. Swift’s camp initially claimed after the song’s release that West had not called her for approval and that she had “cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message, adding: “Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that bitch famous.’”