If you haven’t heard about the Taylor and Kimye feud/battle/war then you really need to catch up. Recap: Kanye West and Taylor Swift have had their differences with each other since the 2009 VMA’s when Kanye interrupted Swift during her VMA acceptance speech for “Album of the Year”. Then they tried to be friends for a short period of time and Kanye sent her flowers years later as an olive branch. Everyone thought they were cool until Kanye released “Famous” a song on his new album "The Life of Pablo." He directly references Swift by saying “For all my south side n***** that know me best, I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why, I made that bitch famous, I made that bitch famous”. After people heard the lyrics all hell seemed to break loose. Well, yeah. I mean he not only directly called Taylor Swift a bitch, but he also basically said that he made her famous and in turn they might have sex because ya know, Kanye has a big head and thinks less of women. Everyone was waiting to see what Taylor would say about this since she’s been the victim of Kanye’s rude behavior before. Taylor Swift decided to publically criticize West during her acceptance speech at the Grammy’s by saying “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…..”. Okay, so what did Kanye do? He took to twitter and tweeted a series of tweets. One of which said he had called Taylor and asked her if the lyrics were okay with her. Last Sunday Kim Kardashian West released a series of videos on her snapchat of Kanye talking to Taylor over the phone. He read her the part of his lyrics where he stated that him “and Taylor might still have sex”; she seemed totally cool with it and was flattered. She even said that it is “kind of a compliment”.
So basically this entire time we all thought Kanye was this huge asshole (which I think he still is), but he’s a little less of one now. Taylor was the victim during her acceptance speech at the 2009 VMA’s, but truly is not the victim here. I thought Taylor Swift was a very down to earth person. She grew up in a small town not too far away from where I’m from, she does all these good deeds and likes doing charity work. To be honest, I feel a little let down. I hated Kanye more than Kanye loves Kanye and him rapping about someone owing him sex because he thinks he made her famous made me hate him even more. I boycotted all things Kanye West: his music, a chance to work his Yeezy fashion show, and anything with the Kardashian name on it. Now however, I feel let down. Kanye did the right thing by asking if she was comfortable with his lyrics (still doesn’t make them right) and she painted him as the bad guy even though she had told him she would tell the media that they had talked about his lyrics. Now, because the entire world knows what happened she’s backpedaling and trying to say that he didn’t tell her beforehand that he would refer to her as a “that bitch” and that’s why she’s upset. Well Taylor, that didn’t seem to be the case in your speech at the Grammy’s.
The other thing that bugs me is that Taylor has become a role model for young girls. She was or at least seemed kind and giving. Her Grammy’s speech slamming Kanye was directed towards young women. So at that point I thought “good for you Tay Tay, don’t let no man try and take credit for your accomplishments, you don’t owe anyone sex!” and I’m sure that’s what many others thought. Here she was trying to teach women a lesson about hard work and that if you work hard and surround yourself with good people you will get to where you are supposed to be and you don’t owe anyone a thank you for helping you get there. But then she called Kanye’s lyrics a “compliment”. You want to be a role model for young girls and women, but you allowed someone to say that about you??? Uhm...what?...... Some role model.
It should be interesting to see how the rest of this pans out, however Taylor Swift’s reputation is pretty damaged right now. Nothing can fix her reputation right now, not even winning a lawsuit against Kimye for recording her. That might damage her image even more.
