Taylor Swift had a bad week last week. She thought Nicki Minaj was throwing some shade at her (Minaj was, and Minaj had every right to) and Swifty piped up with some tone-deaf tweets. Everything sort of fell apart for Swifty and there really was a major “backlash” against Taylor’s version of feminism, which is really just Swiftism (as in, no one can say anything bad about Taylor because feminism). Taylor ended up apologizing to Minaj and Minaj accepted her apology and everything is fine between them.
But… Tay-Tay never forgets. In the midst of the craziness of last week, Katy Perry chimed in and threw some awkwardly worded (but strategically smart) shade at Taylor – go here to read. It is widely believed that Taylor and Katy have been at war for more than a year, that Taylor wrote “Bad Blood” about Katy and that Katy really couldn’t give two s—ts about it overall (but I bet it felt good for Katy to throw that punch at Swifty last week). Taylor only apologized to Nicki Minaj, not Katy. But during a concert in Massachusetts over the weekend, Taylor “reacted” to Katy’s pointed comment.
So what did Taylor do? In the middle of “Bad Blood,” a “Left Shark” magically appeared behind Taylor. I’ve been looking for quality videos of what exactly happened, but I can’t find anything better than the one I’m including below. As we know, Katy performed with dancing sharks during the Super Bowl and “Left Shark” became a meme because that poor dude in the shark costume was a terrible dancer. So, yes, when a shark appears (however briefly) on stage with Swifty, it’s definitely about Katy.
@TSwiftOnTour @TSwiftNZ @taylorswift13 THERE WAS A SHARK DURING #BADBLOOD TODAY #BADBLOODSHARK pic.twitter.com/VXWetafdj6
— Jillian (@Swifty448) July 26, 2015
Some of Taylor’s fans are even calling her out on this pettiness. As they should. Taylor really needs to stop.
Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.
This is obnoxious. And honestly, only makes Katy look better for really not engaging. Good for her. Meanwhile T-Swift, just stop.
I agree. It’s so petty, it’s not clever– it actually makes my eyes roll. How old is this woman? Is she 13? SOME real feminism, ya got there.
“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support other women.”
And honestly, this was over back up dancers? I’m sorry if I missed this, but did someone hold a gun to the dancers’ heads when they joined Perry’s tour and left Swift’s? TS’s sense of umbrage and getting shafted holds no water – adults are free thinkers who can choose what they want to do. Maybe Katy Perry’s tour offered a better paycheck, better riders, etc… no one was coerced, as far as I can see. Let this crap go, FFS
Petty.
I don’t think it was ever about the dancers – that feud has John Mayer written all over it and the dancers are simply a cover up story. He seems to possess some mysterious superpowers making women go berserk. The whole world knows he is a skeevy douchebag, yet the women he dates just can’t let go. How many times did Katy come back to him? And Taylor? It was over 6 years and numerous boyfriends ago and she still behaves like he dumped her just recently.
Except Katy did engage…i.e. the tweet. It was to provoke Swift, which it did. I agree the back and forth is very childish and needs to stop. But let’s not act like Taylor is some big bad bully and Katy is an angel. They have both had their say in this.
Honestly, a move like this smacks of Madonna slyly doing a cover of “Born This Way” mixed with “Express Yourself” followed by her less popular hit “She’s Not Me…She’ll never have what I have.”
Let’s face it, though. Taylor’s “niceness” is a social media ruse to garner mouse-clicks and album sales to some extent. In today’s world, you can’t be a bitch and expect to last long without a modicum of talent. But if you don’t have talent, your fallback is inevitably being the girl-next-door, best friend that people must like (E.G., Jennifer Lawrence). The internet and social media have forced all artists to have a “personal” relationship with the masses. Every action, every word, every photo, every lyric, every outfit is measured for its social relevance and utility. And let’s also face another glaring aspect: as much as people tout Taylor’s song-writing ability and savvy (exaggerated at that), she is not a great singer “outside the studio.”
Today’s technology with backing tracks and autotune have allowed studios to abandon stunt/poser acts like Milli Vanilli and Black Box. Who needs a front person and the fakery of two decades ago, when you can have studio magic technology and autotune in studio and at “live” concerts doing the work for you. ANYONE with the right amount of dedication, ego, and $$$$$ can put out music these days.
So, in sum, fan relationships based upon technology generated by talent generated by technology to increase profits.
perfect perfect explanation +1million
Brooke Hogan sulks in a corner because of your comment, Christo.
I think Katy Perry proved herself to be exactly how Bad Blood presents her to be.
And who is that?
I agree, she proved Katy right by doing this….and I’m not even a fan of Katy either.
For not engaging? I’m sorry, I’m just dying of laughter right now. She started the whole thing when she got herself involved in the twtter “conversation”…..Some people must really hate Taylor Swift when they are willing to see Katy Perry as a saint or feminist or whatever. Ridiculous.
She really is a piece of work, huh?? What is wrong with her? Is she 12??? Mean Girl, Queen of the Cafeteria.
And wow!! I never heard a concert of her’s before and she is really just a terrible singer.
Katy did engage, though – she jumped into that twitter fight to get hers rather than actually addressing Nicki’s actual comments. Regardless of who started it, she can’t claim to ignore it, now. That tweet told us she’s just been biding her time to strike. So now it’s an ACTIVE rivalry rather than a one-sided one.
And honestly? After the New Yorker Cosby article, I’ll take it. Two adult women in a celebrity feud that involves dancing sharks and shitty pop songs? That’s so ridiculous it comes back around to hilarious. Don’t take it seriously. Nobody is actually getting hurt here. Enjoy the surreal reality of celebrity life and what they think can be called “problems.” Anytime I feel like I’m not being the adult I should, I’m going to revisit these two and feel better about myself.
Yeah ffs get over it.
I second that motion. She’s a child. All about “feminism,” but she doesn’t have the slightest idea of what it is to be a woman. Rise above, little one.
No kidding. Grow up and grow a thick skin girl. Her spiteful behavior makes her look like the mean girl and not doing her any favors.
So tired of Taylor Swift.
This woman is 25 years old. 25. She is childish beyond belief.
Agree x a million. So over her and her 7th grade mean girl antics.
Was going to say the same thing. I don’t comment on her because in the past I have found her too immature to bother with. Over this past year though I feel as if she has started to believe her own hype. My antipathy towards Taylor Swift is based in my belief that plain and simple she is a bully and mean spirited. For whatever talents she possesses her biggest talent is her marketing skill. She can act as sweet as she likes she has vicious claws and is not above using them to get her way. What people call her passive aggressive behavior is being shown to be aggressive. She is NOT a passive personality she smiles and wears a cute outfit while stabbing you in the back.
She’s the ‘right shark’, chumming the waters. Do not like little miss faux feminista.
My allegiances in this melodrama, in order:
#TeamNun
#TeamNone
And then maybe, with a gun to my head: #TeamPerry.
#TeamPinky.
I CALLED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHA! okay but for real, I knew Left Shark was coming back, and said it in my comment a few days ago. Just wait til those three do their thing together at the VMAS.
What cracks me up is the people who defended her and were saying Katy’s tweet was petty.
So uh…what’s this folks? Just more good business skills?
Hahaha exactly.
Katy’s tweet was petty. And the shark thing is equally petty. These are grown women who all need to start acting like it.
I thought Katy’s was pretty accurate. Taylor is all about kumbaya feminsim when she’s being attacked but doesn’t practice what she preaches. P.s feminism is wayyyy more than just kumbaya.
Agreed paranormalgirl.
Dee- the thing is, the fight wasn’t involving Katy – but she stuck herself in there. So yes – still petty – as well as poorly worded.
Now it was stupid of Taylor to even reply to Nikki – but at the end of the day, it’s not Taylor’s fault that the nominations went the way they did. It’s the people running the show.
Exactly Dee.
We’ve got one tweet from Katy compared to one interview, one song, one music video, one major promo, and now one performance stunt from Taylor.
Katy waited and timed her one response for when it most highlighted Taylor’s hypocrisy. That’s just smart.
I agree that they’re equally petty.
Agree. They BOTH need to let this ish go already.
Agree with paranormal girl.
This. I don’t get why people are jumping at Taylor but think that Perry is totally reasonable. If this shark-thing is true, they are both ridiculous and have not much to do in there free time.
Ugh.
I’m so tired of Taylor, not to mention she’s a raging hypocrite. Poor Taylor always the victim in her mind.
so its just like school when somebody says something, your away message on AIM is in reaction, but still shady and not specific, then that person says ‘is that about me’ and you go ‘omg no! hahahaha’
these bitches are so f*cking stupid.
Ikr? Both are fake beyotches!
At this point, is the public really to believe that this is all about a damn dancer? Methinks it’s about John and the dancer issue was used to justify Swift’s dislike of Perry.
The only two times Taylor has written hit-pieces, I mean songs, about girls has been Camilla and Katy.
Camilla dared to steal her super special 16 yr old love. Katy managed to re-wrangle her ex John Mayor, this ain’t got a damn thing to do with back up dancers and no one made it more clear than Swift herself.
HAHA..
I have always said this is about John Mayer. This is what some women do. I mean who cares about a dancer.. But this is about the guy and of course it becomes about the woman he is with. She is probably so obsessed with what John has said to Katy about her. WHAT has he shared when they were together. What does her enemy Katy know about her that others don’t.
Yeah it is the Head Drama. I also wonder if Katy has said or done something to let Taylor know in some subtle way that she does know some stuff. Interesting.. and NOT at the same time.
IDK, does Perry have a mean girl, sh*t talker reputation? The most immature, petty, eye roll inducing, and cringeworthy I’ve ever seen her be was towards Russell Brand. And if Katy had actually done something, ANYTHING, I feel like it would’ve come up by now–Maybe it has. I too had not been paying close attention to any of this garbage. I knew about the “feud”, but I didn’t know it was supposed to be about !backup dancers! until last week. And I also didn’t know about that awfulness with Camilla.–Swift is clearly not letting this go and has gone out of her way again to make sure everyone knows her wrath is aimed at Perry. And she wanted us to believe it’s over virtually nothing. Well, I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that Perry is pretty much THE major competition Swift has in the pop genre. That’s probably a salty wound. (And with all the people Taylor surrounds herself with, none are actual competition either. Not like Perry and her BFF RiRi for example.) Combine that with Swift’s Courtney Love-ian obsession with every man she ever dated/slept with/had an interest in, you get… dancing sharks and Cindy Crawford’s worst music video cameo… You think Biggie and Tupac are laughing their asses off about this sh*t? I wish that instead of some wordsalad tweet, Perry had just nipped this forever ago and called Swift out on the smear campaign with, you know, words. Imagine what would happen in H-Wood if these people just said it like it is and stopped playing these games.
Of course that it’s about Mayer and Jonas
I’ve always said it was about Mayer. He even said it was about him and people dismissed him. Nah…she’s a bitter queen.
Yeah, but the media always mentions the ‘back up dancer’ shit so I was wondering why that narrative was pushed when John Mayer is the most logical link between these two.
Bingo. This is a pissed girl who thinks she can manipulate everyone into hating who she hates over a dude. Lol Which for a girl who’s all about her girlfriends, except now that she’s gotta a new man (for now) is really upset Katy’s dating John. Katy’s silly for dating John, sure. And Katy being a biatch, sure. But Taylor, is vengeful and manipulative over things like breakups with boys. Girl, grow up.
Taylor’s biggest issue: she will never own her own part in the failure of relationships and friendships – sometimes it just didn’t work. Listen to the lyrics of Bad Blood. Its all about how someone wronged me, what they did to me, i’m the innocent victim.
She’s a child. (they both are.)
Not to say any man who did wouldn’t have himself partially to blame but seriously…SERIOUSLY, I hope her future husband never cheats on her.
She seems like the type of woman to completely snap one day and murder him and the mistress before killing herself.
Damn girl…you keep making Katy Perry look like the normal one but you’re so obsessed you can’t even stop yourself. Since we all know she won’t dare risk writing a song about Nicki, I’m guessing there’ll be another song and ‘coded’ interview about Katy and Camilla coming up.
Apparently she met her current contract’s parents already. Calvin needs to run away NOW. His latest album is a hit and he’s a go-to DJ, he doesn’t really need the publicity from this relationship lol
Reminds me of when she moved across the street from the Kennedy boy. I swear she’s a Lifetime movie in progress.
Lord. If her future husband ever cheated on her with some other girl, she would kill them both. While chastising them in a disappointed voice, for ignoring her feels. Then she would clean everything up nicely, bury the bodies in the garden ( with daisies on top! ) and write a really looong album. Full of awkward clues. Oh, and she’d buy ten cats and a lot of virginal white outfits.
Incredibly lame.
Well it seems that when one conflict is resolved… go back and stir the one that is still brewing.
Are these girls stuck in high school? Did Taylor know that shark was going to appear? The way she laughed it’s like it caught her off guard. I don’t know but that was dumb.
I’m not an expert.. but do you thing someone would put something unexpected in her show without her approval. She wants control over things. I don’t see that happening at all.
It’s been proven by Minaj’s Twitter history that she was comparing her video to Wrecking Ball, nothing to do with Swift at all. And that was not throwing shade at an artist, but at an institution. Makes Swifty look 10x more dumb. And her swipe at Katy here just proves Katy right. Give it a rest, Swifty. She just HAS to be liked.
I don’t really love Taylor (honestly I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to her) but I think Katy’s getting more credit than she’s due here. She’s JUST as petty and immature. I don’t like pop music, but in my opinion Katy’s music is way worse. I don’t really understand why she’s so popular.
+1
I agree.
As an objective listener Katy and Taylor are about the same level musically. And she’s “getting credit,” because for the most part Katy has been above it all. As evidenced by numerous comments, stories on the two, and lack of a celeb-studded mean girl music video.
Damn it, Swift.
I’m a complete apologist for her, but this is just ridiculous.
She should’ve quit whilst she was already behind and stayed schtum after that Twitter debacle.
Same, but I’m done now. True colors have been revealed and Taylor is apparently lame and immature. This was really pathetic and embarrassing for her soul. She needs to grow the hell up.
And this is all over backup dancers? Or John Mayer? Or something? Whatever it is, she will go to her grave pissed about it it seems.
The inside of her head has got to be one strange place and I am tired of having to see glimpses of it. Get a therapist or something and leave the public alone. You hate her. We got it.
“You hate him/her. We get it.”
Damn near sums up 90% of her discography.
She is silly and immature! Life is not high school.
Swift is what? 25? At some point the pettiness has to stop. I know she lives in la la land but it can only last for so. Her fans grew up. I think she needs to start growing too.
I can’t see it but if true it’s pretty lame/petty. Plus everyone loved Left Shark! Neither Taylor or Katy can dance to save their lives so if they start throwing shade at each other’s stage shows it’s a bit much.
Taylor makes fun of her dancing abilities in ‘shake it off’ so I think she knows she isn’t much of a dancer.
I haven’t followed the phenomenon known as ‘Left Shark’ so I can’t really dissect the the diss to any great extent. I like Taylor better than Katie because I have an 11 year old and Katie is just… no.
So I had no idea what this left shark business was, either way it lead me to a hilarious buzzfeed article that tried to take Katy’s tweet and make it understandable. One of the funniest things I’ve read all week.
Oh yeah, that was good. And it helped a lot. LOL
http://www.buzzfeed.com/iramadison/here-is-an-explanation-of-what-katy-perrys-tweet-actually-me#.diYKE4gQ3
Ira Madison deserves all the snaps for that one, lmao.
Although I couldn’t give two hoots about this, did you know that Left Shark is a pet that you can earn on World of Warcraft? I have him. He floats around in a big blob of water making little swishy roars. He’s lovely.
Wow that’s just pathetic
Swift is having back to back to back sold out concerts lately, I highly doubt she’s having a bad week. And about the shark, I’ve seen that shark in a show / concert photo (not in the Super Bowl) prior to this Swift incident so I don’t see it as a snarky hit to Perry. And didn’t Swift apologized and Minaj accepted it? Why is everyone so invested in this Swift takedown? Did she slaughtered your pets or what?
Taylor could actually kill someone’s pet and her fans would still defend her. She’s childish and has a nasty side.
Haha Renee, you are so right. I really wonder what’s in it for all these super-fans sometimes
Like those Cumberbitches and their love / hate for their man. Obsessive.
I think the point of this is that she had a bad week and should have ended it there, with Nicki accepting her apology. Instead she decided to drag her feud with Katy into it all by bring out left shark, now making it look like she’s just taking random shots at Katy and being a petty girl and once again looking bad in the press. She needs to start listening to her PR people, or get better PR people at this point……
She is SO passive aggressive
Ughh….I’ve always thought she was a petty snotty mean girl…this proves it
She is such a hack. Her and Lena Dunham. No wonder they are friends. I am over her. She is overexposing herself
What do you think happen to Taylor to make her this afraid of rejection/loss of control/petty? This is not healthy
Lynnie, the Paris Review piece I posted below implies that she was socially isolated/abandoned by her friends around 6th grade when she started seriously writing; I think she may be stuck in a middle-school mentality.
T. Swift is passive aggressive to a degree that seems unusual to me–so, she’s sooooo content with all her picture-perfect “besties” and Calvin the DJ that she has to engage in these petty, John Mayer-adjacent feuds with Katy Perry? Yeah, suuuuuuure. The Paris Review has an essay that highlights (and ultimately praises, which I disagree with) her passive-aggressiveness and how her songwriting is driven by portraying herself as this innocent nerd girl who is ideal for the dream guy and all other women are portrayed as scheming vixens. She has issues with other women, for sure: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/06/22/revenge-of-the-nerds/
Did she also buy that “highest-earning couple in music” ranking a few weeks ago as a way to prove she’s superior to Mayer/Perry, Beyonce/Jay-Z? I’m beginning to think she did!
The petty sisters continue. Ugh they’re both silly exhausting children. And worse: they are the top female artists in the biz acting like immature brats involving their fans in this stupid pointless fight over a back up dancer and someone didn’t kiss my ass enough BS. Girl, Bye.
What was the real reason for Taylor and Katy’s fight? It can’t be just about a freakin’ back up dancer. This amount of hate…it has to be something MUCH MUCH deeper.
John Mayer. This has to be about John Mayer and the back-up dancer is a public excuse to go after Katy. Taylor dated him. He was a right douche to her. They broke up back in early 2009, I believe. Then Katy dated him on/off to this day.
wow.
i thought it was funny.
y’all are trippin, lord.
lol everybody stop complaining about it, Taylor Swift is like a goldmine for gossip lovers!
This whole feud is so lame! I am so tired of it, but it just won’t die! Ugh.
I think the dancers did that without telling her, to be honest. And I think it’s petty but kind of funny! The shark was behind the screen, not dancing a full set.
Stupid Taylor haters…..that was OBVIOUSLY a prank by her crew on Taylor. You could tell she was surprised. Haters gonna hate…
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So right Neah23, lol.
8th grade girl stuff. We already knew that about you Tay-Tay; and this confirms it to the eenth degree. Go away. Take a break. Let us forget about you.
Taylor Swift is petty? That’s like telling us water is wet, or the Pope is Catholic.
Bah. Enough with the juvenile sniping Swifty. Grow up.
I know Kanye is not everyone’s cup of tea, but I wonder if he knew something we did not in regards to Swifty.
If Katy didn’t give a s— she would not respond of course she cares..lol..there both good at the zingers no one is better then the other..it just depends on who you fav more
I think Taylor should worry less about Katy (and John for that matter) and work on that lame live singing voice.
These are calculated moves on both of their parts. Don’t confuse what they are doing – and call it petty high school drama. Drama equals media attention, media attention leads to people taking a side and that leads to more record sales bc people want to support their favorite wronged artist. Oh! and just in time for the MTV music awards. Shocker. Where im assuming they will both perform and will have insane media write ups leading up to the show discussing the feud, giving them more attention before a huge awards show. They are both where they are because the are cold and calculating business women. I guess they have that in common. that and John M! there is no healthy competition in the music industry. especially amongst women. they are pitted against each other from the start. Too bad we dont get to see all of the calculated moves behind the scenes. Show & Teach girls what it really takes to run a business, and not just about the petty cat fighting the media spins.
You’re probably right, it’s to keep media coverage and the drama going. I’ve never personally bought anything to support an artist because of some feud, but then I’m not exactly Swifter’s demographic.
Cosmopolitan is claiming it was an audience member who donned the shark costume. FWIW.
Taylor looks like a mean girl from middle school, but I don’t think it’s about dancers or John. I think she’s worried her audience will start liking Katy as they get older.
To be fair to Taylor, I believe one of her dancers has popped up behind that screen at every concert to ‘scare’ her and they’ve been something different every time. So it’s possible she didn’t know they’d do the shark. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if she dared them to do the shark herself. The whole argument is petty, they both need to move on. (But I do, unapologetically, love that song)
but wouldn’t she be upset about that. I mean if you know this issue is already a sensitive one. Why fan the flames. It is not as if no one would know about this happening. The people there as we see put it on social media. Why would the people that work for her put her in the position to defend or explain this. Everyone with a brain that sees the shark that is aware of her conflicts with Katy are going to talk about it.
If she is pissed at Katy then just ignore her. Don’t elevate her to some important level in your life that she isn’t. I said above I don’t see how anyone working with her would do this wouthout her consent. Too chancy. She could have been really mad.
It’s giving them both free coverage, that’s for sure.
Any attention is better than none, right, girls?
Ok. These are assumptions. We do not know these women. Also, a very important piece of information lacking from this report is that every night, Taylor’s dancer surprises her at that same moment during the song. She supposed to look back at him through that glass/door thing and at first he was making crazy faces and now he started bringing props. The night prior, he had a lobster. Tonight, he had a shark stuffed animal. Is she in on the joke and helps him pick his props? Maybe. But we don’t know that. And even if she did, she might not associate sharks with Katy Perry. I didn’t until I saw this post. I had no idea people actually thought sharks meant Katy Perry. So making the HUGE leap and assumptions that this is direct remark regarding another artist is a stretch. And I do not believe it should be used to gather so much hate for another human being. We all have no idea what is actually going on behind the scene. Let’s all remember that.
Assumptions? Taylor Swift is one of the most savy and media image conscious celebrities. She herself talks about how she tries to make everything she is involved with a good reflection of her. Her show is her business, she wouldn’t leave anything to chance. We all know how “surprised” she can be. Her dancers may have an approved list of animals they can show up on stage with (she signs the paycheck for every item) including a shark when performing a song DIRECTLY about Katy Perry.
Swiftly has revenge songs about every guy she has dated, girls that she thinks they choose over her, she even has a revenge sing against professional critics who give her a bad review or say she can’t sing. But like someone said Taylor can kill someone’s pet and fans of hers will say the cute puppy had it coming!
Katy I’m not a fan of but SWIFTY started the public feud about personal business that should have stayed personal. I don’t follow Katy but does she too have a hit list of people in her life that she makes revenge songs about?
I feel like people are taking this feud too seriously. We have two pop stars in a celeb feud over backup dancers AND THERE ARE DANCING SHARKS involved. This is the funniest sh*t I’ve read all week. I’m just going to enjoy the ridiculous.
The vanity and inanity of celebrity captured in one post.
I believe she never indeed grew outside of her teenage mindset. She says in an interview about her life, that she was invisible in highschool, that she used to observe all the popular kids in silence, so I am really not surprised she cannot get through the trauma without some proper terapy and she uses her fame and fortune today to recreate the outcomes she craved for in highschool, like popular girlfriends, popular boyfriends and “mean girls gang ” type of retribution to her enemies.