This feud will probably outlive all of us, especially now that it's evolved and mutated into a feud triangle.
Take a look.
11 February 2016
Just when it's all going so well… Kanye debuts a new track by the name of 'Famous', and its lyrics include the following: "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b**** famous."
Yikes. Kanye claims that he sought Taylor's approval before the song's release : "I called Taylor and had a hour long convo with her about the line and she thought it was funny and gave her blessings."
Taylor's camp immediately denies this in a statement, claiming that Kanye hadn't run the lyrics past Taylor, but had instead asked her to promote the song: "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 b**** famous.'"
Here we go again...
16 June 2016
Kim Kardashian West stepped into the fray during a GQ interview in June, echoing Kanye's claim that Taylor had given her blessing to those 'Famous' lyrics, and later backtracked in order to play the victim.
"She totally approved that," Kim said. "She wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn't. I swear, my husband gets so much shit for things when he really was doing proper protocol and even called to get it approved."
And it didn't stop there – Kim went on to claim that the phone conversation in question, where Taylor approved the lyrics, had been recorded on camera.
"And then they sent an attorney's letter like 'Don't you dare do anything with that footage,' and asking us to destroy it."
We're gonna need to see those receipts, Kim.
25 June 2016
Kanye being Kanye, the music video for 'Famous' was always going to add more fuel to the feud fire, but nobody quite saw this coming.
The video begins with a shot of Kanye and Kim asleep in bed, and pans outwards to reveal a naked Taylor asleep on the other side of Kanye. Also snoozing nude in this bizarre fictional bed: Rihanna, Chris Brown, Donald Trump, Caitlyn Jenner, George W Bush, Anna Wintour, Ruby Rose, Ray J and Bill Cosby. Taylor is noticeably positioned right next to Kanye, which becomes even creepier in light of the "might still have sex" lyric.
The celebrities were all confirmed to be lifelike waxworks rather than the real deal, but it remained unclear how many had agreed to their depictions in the video.
28 June 2016
Although there was no response from the Swift camp, one of Taylor's many BFFs Lena Dunham leapt to her defense in a justifiably angry Facebook post, which slammed the video for its apparent legitimization of rape culture.
"Now I have to see the prone, unconscious, waxy bodies of famous women, twisted like they've been drugged and chucked aside at a rager?" Dunham wrote. "I'm sure that Bill Cosby doll being in the bed alongside Donald Trump is some kind of statement… I don't have a hip, cool reaction, because seeing a woman I love like Taylor Swift (f*** that one hurt to look at, I couldn't look), a woman I admire like Rihanna or Anna, reduced to a pair of waxy breasts made by some special effects guy in the Valley, it makes me feel sad and unsafe and worried for the teenage girls who watch this and may not understand that grainy roving camera as the stuff of snuff films."
Elsewhere, the question on everyone's lips was whether Taylor – or any of the celebrities in question – would grant Kanye's wish and sue over the video.
DIS TEW MUCH!
Can someone open a window? It's getting too heated in The Shade Room,
Can it get anymore intense then this?
New Words
Dis pro. - slang for "this"
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