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26th Aug 2019
Although it has only just dropped, Taylor Swift’s new album Lover has already brought with it many headline-grabbing moments; from the technicolour dream of the film clip for her debut single, ME!, to the LGBTQI+ advocacy and overall swatting of haters in You Need To Calm Down.
But although the latter song featured the reunion of Swift and long-time frenemy, Katy Perry, the album may have just reignited another famous feud that the singer has been involved in for a decade.
Included with the release of Swift’s new album, was a 30-page booklet filled with excerpts from her personal diary, with the earliest entry written by her 13-year-old self. And, perhaps the most discussed individual within the highly personal pages is Kanye West, with a diary entry dedicated to each of their two most notable public stand-offs.
If you’re in need of a rivalry recap, allow us to bring you up to speed. The Taylor Swift versus Kanye West feud is a tale as old as celebrity gossip-filled time. Well, at least for the last 10 years. It began back in 2009 when West stormed the MTV VMAs stage and proceeded to interrupt Swift’s acceptance speech, delivering a cringe-inducing speech which we’re sure doesn’t require repeating.
According to People, Swift penned a diary entry five days after the incident which revealed her feelings at the time. “If you had told me that one of the biggest stars in music was going to jump up onstage and announce that he thought I shouldn’t have won on live television, I would’ve said ‘That stuff doesn’t really happen in real life,’” she wrote. “Well… apparently…. It does.”
Seven years later and Swift and West once again came to a head, this time over a lyric dispute which referenced Swift. This extremely public reigniting of their feud also earned itself a now-public diary entry, titled “This summer is the apocalypse”, as was revealed in a recent interview Swift conducted with The Guardian.
So what has the singer done today to bring this feud out of 2016 and back into 2019? The UK publication speculates that aside from releasing the West-directed diary entries, Swift is thought to be addressing her old (and now, potentially current) adversary in the album’s opening number I Forgot That You Existed, singing the lines “it isn’t love, it isn’t hate, it’s just indifference”.
So, do we consider this feud to be renewed? Dedicated songs and diary entries suggest yes, so stand by.
According to other comments made by Swift to The Guardian, a number of people that remain close to the singer also received shout outs. Her mother, Andrea—who recently experienced a cancer relapse—received praise for her strength in Swift’s Soon You’ll Get Better with lyrics like: “You make the best of a bad deal/I just pretend it isn’t real.”
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And in a rare move from the generally private Swift, she confessed to the publication that she had dedicated at least two songs on Lover—London Boy and Afterglow to her real-life love, Joe Alwyn, who she’s been quietly living in London with for the last few years.
But aside from song tributes, the singer isn’t as ready to divulge details on her love life as readily as she has in the past. “I’ve learned that if I do, people think it’s up for discussion, and our relationship isn’t up for discussion,” she said to The Guardian. “If you and I were having a glass of wine right now, we’d be talking about it—but it’s just that it goes out into the world. That’s where the boundary is, and that’s where my life has become manageable. I really want to keep it feeling manageable.”