Taylor Swift has publicly addressed that infamous phone call between her and Kanye West and
now, so has Kim Kardashian!
The tea is piping hot you guys...
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Now, yesterday we told you we will keep you updated on any developments in the Taylor
Swift / Kanye West / Kim Kardashian Feud, and we have a lot of those.
So let’s jump into the tea.
As the world patiently waited for Taylor to break her silence she did it in only a way
Taylor Swift would, by bringing awareness to a better cause.
Clearly liking some REDDIT posts, subtweets, etc. was not enough for Tay, she went full-blown
“I’m going to address this one head on” while bringing attention to a greater cause.
Yesterday during all the commotion that was happening online over the leaked footage,
Taylor took to IG writing, QUOTE: “Instead of answering those who are asking how I feel
about video footage that was leaked, proving that I was telling the truth the whole time
about *that call* (you know, the one that was illegally recorded, that somebody edited
and manipulated in order to frame me and put me, my family, and fans through hell for 4
years.)
Swipe up to see what really matters.”
The swipe up page led Instagram users to the Feeding America page urging her fans to donate
to the organization if they are able to.
And it looks like the leaked video, Taylor’s response and the multiple Swifty comments
on Taylor’s posts was enough to ignite Kim Kardashian to speak out on the matter and
defend her and Kanye’s actions.
In a series of Twitter posts on Monday, Kim tweeted out her side of the story which started
out by Kim calling Taylor “self-serving.”
She wrote, “Taylor Swift has chosen to reignite an old exchange - that at this point in time
feels very self-serving given the suffering millions of real victims are facing right
now.”
She continued, “I didn’t feel the need to comment a few days ago, and I’m actually
really embarrassed and mortified to be doing it right now, but because she continues to
speak on it, I feel I’m left without a choice but to respond because she is actually lying.”
Okay this is very juicy and I need to do a wellness check on everyone!
How is everyone doing with this back and forth so far?
Are you shocked by Kim’s claim and response so far?
Comment below and let me know.
But there is a lot more you guys.
Also, Taylor’s publicist spoke out and WOW, we will get to all of that in just a second!
Back to Kim.
She continued her Twitter spree saying, “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 “bitch” was used without her permission.”
She went on with another tweet that read: “At the time when they spoke the song had
not been fully written yet, but as everyone can see in the video, she manipulated the
truth of their actual conversation in her statement when her team said she “declined
and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message.
“The lie was never about the word bitch, It was always whether there was a call or
not and the tone of the conversation.”
Kim went on to explain that she never edited the footage saying “I never edited the footage
(another lie) - I only posted a few clips on Snapchat to make my point and the full
video that recently leaked doesn’t change the narrative.”
Clearly the narrative not changing is in Kim’s opinion, because for many fans who have now
seen the longer video, the narrative has changed.
Kim then added “To add, Kanye as an artist has every right to document his musical journey
and process, just like she recently did through her documentary.”
Kim then said that she recorded the call as part of the documentation process for Kanye
and his album saying “Kanye has documented the making of all of his albums for his personal
archive, however has never released any of it for public consumption & the call between
the two of them would have remained private or would have gone in the trash had she not
lied & forced me to defend him.”
She ended with saying that she will never touch on this matter again stating “This
will be the last time I speak on this because honestly, nobody cares.
Sorry to bore you all with this.
I know you are all dealing with more serious and important matters.
As we all know, the Kardashian Klan always sticks together, especially while any sort
of drama is unfolding - of course, they’re family.
Khloe Kardashian took to Twitter to support Kim.
She tweeted, “I was about to go take my ass to sleep but then I just saw my sister
post a couple tweets.
Kimberly you betta!!!!!!!!!!!”
But that wasn’t all!
Khloe tweeted a second time, saying, “Kim is my fucking lawyer for life!!!!!!
My sister AND my lawyer.”
Kendall, who isn’t typically as vocal as her big sisters, subtly showed support for
Kim by “liking” her tweets.
It’s safe to say which side she’s taking!
But it doesn’t end there, Taylor’s team also spoke out on the matter, and the response
came amid Kim’s tweets.
In response to Kim’s tweet we just discussed where Kim said QUOTE “Taylor lied through
her publicist”, Taylor’s publicist, Tree Paine, tweeted, QUOTE: “I’m Taylor’s
publicist and this is my UNEDITED original statement.
Btw, when you take parts out, that’s editing.
P.S. who did you guys piss off to leak that video?”
With her tweet, Tree Paine attached the original statement she made when the drama went down
all those years ago.
The full statement read, “Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release
his single “Famous” on her Twitter account.
She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message.
Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that bitch famous.’”
Phew!
There is a lot there to unpack!
So its clear despite all the recent developments, both sides to this drama stand by their word
and side to their story.
In case you need to be caught up to speed, let’s take a little trip back to 2016 when
Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian all made headlines.
During a phone call between Taylor and Kanye, Kanye was heard asking Taylor for permission
to use her name in the line of his song “Famous.”
But after the song was released, Taylor said Kanye never asked permission for the line
“I made that b----- famous.”
And shortly after, Kim released a shortened version on her Snapchat as fans have come
to know of a much lengthier conversation.
Now, the full conversation has actually been leaked exposing the entire 25-minute long
conversation between the two.
At one point, Kanye even asks "OK, now what if later in the song I was also to have said,
uh...'I made her famous'?"
But he fails to mention what he was planning on calling her.
In the full conversation, Taylor can be heard feeling a bit uncomfortable as she chatted
with Kanye on the other line as he tried to bounce ideas for his song off of Taylor.
As he tries to brace her for the line, he eventually reads her the prized song lyric
he had come up with saying quote "I Feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex," but fails
to mention what his next line would be.
Taylor appeared to be okay with the lyric and even said “I'm glad it's not mean, I
thought it was going to be like, 'that stupid dumb bitch.'"
Later, Kanye does finally share the final version of the song and shares “I feel like
me and Taylor might still have sex” while again leaving out calling her a bitch.
And of course, fans on Twitter were thrilled by the news that not only Taylor addressed
the scandal, but used her platform to promote something much bigger.
One fan wrote “I FUCKING LOVEEEE THAT SHE USED THIS TO PROMOTE SOMETHING TO HELP US
ALL RIGHT WOW!!”
Another wrote “This just makes me respect her even more.”
And someone else said “Being the bigger person.
Yassss queen.”
While Taylor has typically had her lips sealed on this specific subject, she did break her
silence on social media at the time and tried to clear the air that Kanye and Kim were lying.
And as Swifties know, following this turn of events, she slipped away and stayed out
of the spotlight for over a year and later emerged with her album, Reputation.
She said in her statement at the time, “Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going
to call me “that bitch” in his song?
It doesn't exist because it never happened...While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye on the
phone call, you cannot ‘approve’ a song you haven’t heard,” she said on her Instagram.
But of course, fans of Taylor were elated and even started the hashtag #TaylorWasTellingTheTruth
to show their support.
One fan wrote “Anybody else surprised that Kim and Kanye did this?
Not me.”
And others even started the hashtag #KanyeIsOverParty with another fan writing “You all literally
cancelled Taylor over this and wanna switch sides like the damage hasn’t already been
done.
We all knew there was no proof of her approving the 2nd line.
This is not news.
Kanye has always been a piece of trash.”
And that my friends is the tea for now!
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