Taylor Swift Songs About Kim Kardashian Seemingly Call Out Her Kids For Being Fans of Her Music

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Taylor Swift Songs About Kim Kardashian Seemingly Call Out Her Kids For Being Fans of Her Music
Taylor Swift Songs About Kim Kardashian Seemingly Call Out Her Kids For Being Fans of Her Music

Shots fired! Taylor Swift’s songs about Kim Kardashian from The Tortured Poets Department and more albums don’t hold back on how she really feels about Kanye West’s ex-wife following their 2016 feud.

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Swift and Kardashian’s feud started in 2016 when Kardashian’s husband at the time released his single, “Famous,” in which he rapped: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.” Swift and West first made headlines in 2009 when Swift won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video for “You Belong With Me” and West interrupted her acceptance speech to declare that Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” should have won. The two seemed to have made up when Swift presented West with the Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs in 2015.

That all seemed to change in 2016 when West released “Famous,” which Swift seemed to criticize in her Grammy Award speech for Album of the Year in February 2016. want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame,” she said, referencing West’s lyric “I made that bitch famous” from “Famous.”

Kardashian claimed in an interview with GQ in June 2016 that Swift knew about “Famous” and approved of the song. A spokesperson for Swift, however, called much of Kardashian’s account “incorrect.” A month later, Kardashian released a Snapchat video of West and Swift’s phone call in which West read part of his lyrics to Swift, who called verse “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex” a “compliment.”

The feud continued with Swift releasing a statement in which she stated that West never played the song in full for her and explained that she took a larger issue with the lyric in which he claimed to have made her “famous.” “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. You don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to being called ‘that bitch’ in front of the entire world,” Swift wrote in an Instagram post.

Swift referenced the feud in her sixth studio album, Reputation, which was her first album released since the drama. She also nodded to the drama between her and Kardashian in her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, which was released in 2024 and seemingly compared Kardashian to a bully.

Taylor Swift songs about Kim Kardashian

What Taylor Swift songs are about Kim Kardashian? See which songs Swift has written about Kardashian from albums like The Tortured Poets Department and Reputation.

1. “thanK you aIMee” – The Tortured Poets Department

“thanK you aIMee,” the 24th song from The Tortured Poets Department, is about Taylor Swift calling out a bully named “Aimee,” who fans believe to be Kim Kardashian. The first clue that “thanK you aIMee” is about Kardashian is the capitalized letters in the song’s title, which spell out “KIM.” Read on for other that support why “thanK you aIMee” is about Kardashian.

When I picture my hometown
There’s a bronze spray-tanned statue of you
And a plaque underneath it
That threatens to push me down the stairs, at our school

  • Kardashian is known for her bronze-colored spray tan and even released a line of body makeup under her former brand KKW Beauty.

But I can’t forget the way you made me heal
And it wasn’t a fair fight, or a clean kill
Each time that Aimee stomped across my grave
And then she wrote headlines
In the local paper, laughing at each baby step I’d take

  • Both Swift and Kardashian made headlines in the summer of 2016 when Swift claimed that she didn’t know ahead of time about Kardashian’s husband at the time Kanye West’s song “Famous,” in which West rapped that “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.” “She totally knew that that was coming out,” Kardashian told GQ at the time. “She wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn’t. I swear, my husband gets so much s—t for things [when] he really was doing proper protocol and even called to get it approved.”

  • Swift, for her part, called Kardashian’s account of what went down “incorrect” and claimed that she and West “only spoke once on the phone.” Kardashian then released the footage of Swift and West’s phone call on Snapchat, in which Swift appeared to approve of the lyric.

  • After the Snapchat video, Swift released a statement in which she confirmed that she heard part of “Famous” and explained that she had a bigger issue with another lyric in which West rapped “I made that bitch famous,” referring to Swift. “Of course I wanted to like the song. I wanted to believe Kanye when he told me that I would love the song. I wanted us to have a friendly relationship. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did,” Swift wrote. “While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye on the phone call, you cannot ‘approve’ a song you haven’t heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.”

And maybe you’ve reframed it
And in your mind, you never beat my spirit black and blue
I don’t think you’ve changed much
And so I changed your name, and any real defining clues
And one day, your kid comes home singin’
A song that only us two is gonna know is about you

  • Swift seemed to confirm that “Aimee” was a pseudonym for someone else with the lyric “so I changed your name, and any real defining clues.” In this lyric, she also referenced a 2023 TikTok video in which Kim and her daughter North West danced to Swift’s song, “Shake It Off,” from 1989.

2. “Cassandra” – The Tortured Poets Department

“Cassandra,” the 27th song from The Tortured Poets Department, is believed to be about Taylor Swift’s negative reputation in the aftermath of her 2016 feud with Kim Kardashian. Read on for the lyrics that support why “Cassandra” is about Kardashian.

I was in my new house placing daydreams
Patching up the crack along the wall
I pass it and lose track of what I’m saying
‘Cause that’s where I was when I got the call

  • Swift started renting her Cornelia Street apartment in New York City in 2016, which was the same year as feud with Kardashian and her husband, Kanye West, that summer. The “call” in this lyric could refer to the call Swift received from Kardashian’s husband at the time, Kanye West, that led to their feud.

So, they killed Cassandra first ’cause she feared the worst
And tried to tell the town
So, they filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say
Do you believe me now?

  • It’s believed that “Cassandra” is a pseudonym for Swift whose reputation took a nose dive after Kardashian released the Snapchat video of her and West’s call. Swift also referenced how she died at the time in her 2017 song “Look What You Made Me Do,” which fans also believe to be about West and Kardashian. “But the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now Why? Oh, ’cause she’s dead (oh)” Swift says in the song. Snakes were also a theme on the song’s album, Reputation, which reclaimed the animal from Kardashian, who used snake emojis in the caption of her Snapchat video.

3. “I Did Something Bad” – Reputation

“I Did Something Bad,” the third song from Reputation, is believed to be about how Taylor Swift met her fling, Tom Hiddleston, while she was still dating Calvin Harris, though there are some lyrics that are assumed to be about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Read on for the “I Did Something Bad” lyrics about Kardashian and West.

They’re burning all the witches, even if you aren’t one
They got their pitchforks and proof
Their receipts and reasons
They’re burning all the witches, even if you aren’t one

  • Fans believe this lyric is a clear reference to Swift’s feud with Kardashian and West in the summer of 2016. The “receipts” refer to Kardashian’s Snapchat video of her on a call with West, while the “burning” of witches refers to the downward trajectory of Swift’s reputation at the time.

4. “Look What You Made Me Do” – Reputation

“Look What You Made Me Do,” the lead single and the sixth song from Reputation, is believed to be Taylor Swift’s main diss track toward Kim Kardashian and Kanye West after their 2016 feud. Read on for the lyrics that support why “Look What You Made Me Do” is about Kardashian and West.

I don’t like your little games
Don’t like your tilted stage
The role you made me play of the fool
No, I don’t like you

  • West was known for his titled, floating stage on his 2016 Saint Pablo Tour, which ran a year before the release of “Look What You Made Me Do.”

I don’t like your perfect crime
How you laugh when you lie
You said the gun was mine
Isn’t cool, no, I don’t like you (oh!)

  • The “gun” in this lyric is a reference to how Kardashian and West seemingly shifted the blame for their feud over “Famous” to Swift with Kardashian’s Snapchat video accusing Swift of lying about her knowledge of the song.

I don’t trust nobody and nobody trusts me I’ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams

  • West’s music video for “Famous” featured a naked wax figure of Swift in bed with him.

I’m sorry
But the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now
Why? Oh, ’cause she’s dead (oh)

  • This lyric, which was spoken instead of sang, is believed to be a reference to Swift’s infamous phone call with West about “Famous,” which was the catalyst for her feud with him and Kardashian.

5. “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” – Reputation

“This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” the 13th song from Reputation, is believed to be another diss track toward Kim Kardashian and Kanye West following their 2016 feud with Taylor Swift. Read on for the lyrics that support why “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” is about Kardashian and West.

And therein lies the issue, friends don’t try to trick you
Get you on the phone and mind-twist you
And so I took an axe to a mended fence

  • This lyric is a clear reference to West and Swift’s 2016 phone call, in which West previewed his song, “Famous,” in which he raps he and Swift “might still have sex.” When Swift took an issue with the song, Kardashian released a Snapchat video showing West playing the song for Swift over the phone. Following the video, Swift released a statement claiming that West never played her the full song and explained that she had a bigger issue with another lyric in which West rapped that he “made that bitch famous,” referring to Swift.

But I’m not the only friend you’ve lost lately
If only you weren’t so shady

  • Reputation was released after news broke that West and his former friend, Jay-Z, had a falling out over Jay-Z’s decision to not attend West and Kardashian’s wedding, according to The Independent. Swift, for her part, has remained good friends with Jay-Z and his wife, Beyonce, over the years. Beyonce and Swift attended the premieres of each other’s concert movies in 2023 and the couple were also guests at her 2014 birthday party.

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