Katy Perry would collaborate with Taylor Swift ‘if she says sorry, sure!’

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In the beginning, there was Camilla Belle. Actually, if we really knew more about Taylor Swift’s middle school and high school years, I’m sure we would find that she racked up many, many enemies and nemeses. But one of her first nemeses as a celebrity was Camilla Belle, and Camilla is still pissed about it. Since then, Taylor has made it a point to have beefs with many people, from Kanye West, Kim Kardashian,Jake Gyllenhaal, John Mayer and Calvin Harris, to Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Katy Perry. Katy is one of Tay-Tay’s favorite enemies. Katy was the Ground Zero of Bad Blood. And they are never, ever getting back together (or re-friending each other).

While Taylor always claimed the root of the Bad Blood was something about some backup dancers that Katy “stole” from Swift – although the dancers always maintained that they simply preferred working with Katy (and Taylor couldn’t deal with that) – I always thought the Bad Blood was probably a lot messier that that. Messy, as in it involved record sales, John Mayer and Taylor’s tortured version of feminism. In my mind, Taylor started the beef with Katy, although she would probably disagree with that assessment. The beef has been happening for years now, with no thawing. Katy seems fine, and whenever she does acknowledge Swift, it’s usually in the midst of a bad news cycle for Tay-Tay.

So what’s the latest? Katy was chatting with her fans on Twitter on Saturday, and one tweeter asked if she would ever collaborate with Taylor. Katy’s response? “If she says sorry, sure!”

It’s sort of perfect. It’s not some epic rant or anything, and Katy was just answering fan-questions because, as she said in the beginning, she was waiting for some food to be delivered. This is her most basic thought on Taylor Swift: Taylor should apologize. That’s it. Katy said nice things about Twenty-One Pilots, Beyonce and more. She joked around and it seemed at various points like she was drunk tweeting. When the fans freaked out about her answer, she really didn’t say anything else about Swift that I can see. So… funny, right?

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  1. Samab says:

    She was pretty flat back then, wasn’t she? Love the way Katy managed it fast and effective

    • We Are All Made Of Stars says:

      I was actually busy looking at that skin flap that’s very present over her eyes….she’s had a lot done, pics from the past make it super obvious if you look at them.

      And definitely props to Katy! Love her or hate her, she’s always known how to handle things nicely.

    • holly hobby says:

      Yup she had her face corrected. I remember her being plain looking. Well you can doll yourself outside but if you’re rotten inside nothing changes that.

  2. The Gift says:

    Lmaooo. I follow her and I saw that right as she tweeted it. She’s being classy if you ask me. Taylor’s petty ass would have been along the lines of “nope, too much bad blood, I knew she was trouble and we’re never getting back together

    • PGrant's Girl says:

      Yeah, when the girl who wears the whipped cream-spraying bra is the mature one in this situation, maybe the other person involved ought to reassess her life choices!

    • delorb says:

      Has it occurred to anyone that this is all made up drama meant to sell music? I mean, her ‘beef’ (it’s so silly and juvenile to call it that), with Kanye got her tons of (free) publicity and perhaps a quantifiable bump in record sales. So did her break-up with John Mayer. She seems like the type to repeat what has worked in the past (I mean who wouldn’t?), so maybe this is just more of?

  3. Louise177 says:

    Based on Taylor’s comments when she was promoting her album, the fallout was due to the dancers. She was over dramatic claiming that Katy could have ruined her tour. Which is laughable since from what I read the dancers were contracted for a certain length. Taylor always knew they were leaving. Not to mention it’s pretty lame to claim your tour revolves around 3 or 4 dancers. But it’s safe to say Katy and Taylor will never collaborate. Taylor is always the victim and never wrong.

    • Emily says:

      This argument never made sense to me. Dancing in a tour is a job. Offer more money, or better benefits and conditions, or better yet a combination of both. That’s what gets people to stay with you. If they’re good dancers of course someone else will want to hire them, so pay up!

      • Christin says:

        Exactly. Employees typically leave for a reason — including not liking their employer/manager. There seems to be more to that story other than someone else ‘stealing’ them.

    • Tiffany :) says:

      “I read the dancers were contracted for a certain length. Taylor always knew they were leaving”

      This isn’t true. They were hired for a tour, they left shortly before the tour stared (at end of rehearsals). If Katy wanted them to stay available for her, she should have put them on retainer. They should have told Taylor’s team they might pull out if this other opportunity comes up (then Taylor wouldn’t have hired them.)

      What the dancers did was REALLY wrong and unprofessional, but Taylor should direct her anger at them and not Katy.

      • Tiffany :) says:

        “But here’s the thing. The 3 dancers had actually worked with Katy first, but when Katy’s tour ended several years ago they needed work. So they signed up as dancers during Taylor’s tour.

        We’re told the dancers told Taylor up front … they did not want to sign for the full tour — they wanted a 30-day out, and we’re told it’s because they were just waiting for Katy to go back on tour.”

        The industry STANDARD is to put talent on retainer if you are considering doing an additional leg and do not want them to take another gig. I do not believe for one second that Taylor’s team would have hired dancers that wanted a “30 day out”, that had no intentions of doing the full tour. Visas, insurance and training take way to much time, work and money to hire people who aren’t committed. TMZ posting something does not make it true, I know this intimately.

      • Tiffany :) says:

        And to be clear, I don’t think Taylor should have directed her anger at Katy. I don’t think that writing revenge songs and making silly videos is the way Taylor should have handled it.

        But at the same time, what the dancers did wasn’t professional and I can see why it would piss off people at the start of a world wide tour. It is a lot of work, and there are things (like dress rehearsals to get insurance approval) where it is vital to have all of your ducks in a row. When you take dozens of people to different countries back to back, when you have very dangerous set pieces flying through the air, when you have pyrotechnics and aerial work, you can’t just wing it. It takes a lot of planning.

      • Pepper says:

        It’s not wrong. They broke no contracts and were open about their commitment to Katy from the start. If Taylor cared at all about keeping those dancers, they should have been under contract for the length of the tour. It’s not Katy’s fault she handled her business right and had the dancers she wanted under contract.

        Dancers leave tours all the time. Some tours take two years as the artists take long breaks between continents, very few dancers want to be on the road that long. They get better offers, they get injured, they get tired, they get replaced…it’s no big deal. Especially on a tour like Taylor’s where the dancing rarely ventures beyond a beginners dance class level. Literally any halfway decent dancer could manage to learn Taylor’s choreography in a day or two, it’s not as if replacing them would have been a struggle. Visa’s etc. really aren’t a hassle, the dancers going for these jobs are ready and have all their papers ready, it’s a very minor inconvenience at most. Part of my job involves transferring employees overseas, and I often have to make last minute changes when someone decides they can’t do it. If it’s not a big deal for me to replace people in that situation, it’s certainly not a big deal to do it when you’ve already organized everything for hundreds of other people.

    • Bread and Circuses says:

      Yeah, it occurred to me it was completely safe for Katy to act magnanimous and say she’d work with Taylor if Taylor apologized, because Katy knows that will never, ever, ever happen.

  4. akua says:

    Classy, they both need to take a long break. Likely shady tweets about her, its not classy. And as for tay I don’t she will apologize. If anything Kanye is the that deserves it.

  5. Eleonor says:

    Apparently Katy hired a better smm.

  6. Franny says:

    If I were Taylor I would work on making up with Katy ASAP do a collab and change the conversation. But this would require some accountability on her part, so probably won’t happen.

  7. Rapunzel says:

    I had never heard that “Better than Revenge” song. I can see why Camilla Belle still holds a grudge. It’s pretty defamatory. Also, it really seems to give insight into Taylor’s MO- always having the last word and coming out on top against her “enemies”

    Very middle school playground mentality.

    • Squirrelgirl says:

      That song is probably the most defamatory of all of her petty songs. It’s rude and sexist. If I would Camilla I would be pissed too!

  8. MI6 says:

    She won’t.
    Don’t ruin your record, Katy.

  9. Frosty says:

    Tay gives off narcissist fumes and Katy handled it well – gray rock.

  10. Nicole says:

    Katy has always been classy about the feud. Rarely does she ever comment on it and she let karma take care of Taylor. This summer must have been fun for her. They were friends and the drama was blown up for no reason. One of the dancers in question basically said that they had contracts with Katy first but since her tour didn’t start till much later they were hired with Taylor with the knowledge that once Katy’s started they would leave. It was legit 5 people. It’s not like Katy went around calling these guys to deliberately hire them (and it wouldn’t be possible with contracts either). But again Taylor is a victim of everything and in her middle school mentality took a swipe at Katy that she tried to back out of.

    Tldr Katy was always right about Taylor being a Regina George in wolf’s clothing

    • Bonzo says:

      Agree on everything you said. Katy has always seemed like, “huh?” when Tay started beefing and then “whatever” because she wasn’t going to stoop to engage on her level. I think the few tweet she has done show she doesn’t think Tay is worth fussing over. She’s always acted clasay and mature in the midst of a feud she didn’t start in the first place.

      And Taylor will never apologize. She’s not mature enough to do that. At least, not while her career is going well. She may have to hit rock bottom before she has a “come to Jesus” moment and do some serious self reflection.

  11. Nancy says:

    A decade from now I think Katy will still be doing her thing with success. Can’t decide on Taylor. She is one of those people who refuse to accept responsibility for their actions. I know a lot of Taylors. I agree with Katy’s Regina George tweet years ago regarding Swift. She’s no angel, folks, which is fine, she is human. But…she needs to reevaluate herself big time or she will go the way of the dinosaurs.

    • Erinn says:

      I’m not sure on either of them. Katy used to have great catchy music (even if I didn’t like it, I will admit it was catchy and marketed well) but that “This is how we do” was SO bad. Birthday was super annoying, but did well I think, and that olympic song is only ever going to really be an olympic song – it doesn’t have the kind of catchyness that her songs usually have. The Roar one sounded so much like the Sara Bareilles song.

      She’s also got a lot of issues with the imagery she’s been using, so I don’t know. Maybe the next album will be better?

  12. Jess says:

    It seems Katy wants a Grammy. .. and since she never got one alone lol

  13. Delia says:

    I did find this funny. I don’t think she meant it realistically. She knows Reginas MO. But still funny. I didn’t know the full detail of the dancer drama but I do know dancers don’t ruin tours, dancers routinely go from artist to artist some sneakily and some not.
    The thing no one ever challenged until as of late re Swift is we only ever heard her version of the story and then everyone pegged Katy the bad guy. We heard well she didn’t really speak to me or I didn’t know if she was really my friend bc she’s sarcastic. She never reached out to me. And for me all I could ever think was “Taylor were you ever nice to Katy, did you ever reach out of her, were you ever her friend”… She always pegged a one sided victim story where no one ever got Katys side and thank goodness she never gave one.

  14. Michelina says:

    I’m loving the amount of people calling out Taylor’s crazy self these days. Say what you want about Kim and Kanye, but their takedown of Taylor was totally warranted and deserved in my opinion. They were actually a voice for the voiceless. Katy Perry’s original assessment of Taylor being the Regina George in sheep’s clothing was so brilliant and sums her up perfectly. Homegirl has made an entire career, and a hugely successful one at that, based on slandering just about everyone she has come into contact with. Her “friends” probably feel like hostages because god knows if they cross her, they’ll get dragged on her next album. Every single person Taylor has used to try to make herself a victim has had nothing but class and barely even spoken on the issue. It’s nice to see that she isn’t getting away with this crap anymore.

    I read that Taylor is working on new music, can’t wait for DOUBLE the breakup songs (sarcasm).

  15. Christin says:

    There are people who will never, ever sincerely apologize. Closest one might get is a ‘sorry it bothered you’ type of non-apology. I’m not up to speed on her track record, but I suspect TayTay fits that description.

    Maybe I’m projecting, because I am seeing so much LeAnn in her. 👭

  16. Lucy says:

    I don’t remember Katy being petty about this whole thing if you ask me, other than a couple tweets here and there. In fact, she’s always had a sense of humor about it, which we all know Taylor is incapable of.

  17. Betti says:

    Part of Taylor’s issues with her peers and other celebs is that they actually have earned their fame whereas her daddy bought her a career. She is a mediocre talent as best but people don’t realise that her father owns 60% of her exits company which he bought when she was a teenager and used to make her famous. Folks in the industry know this and is prob one of the many reason (other than her behaviour) why she has no real respect in the industry. She never paid her dues.

    • Lucy2 says:

      While I agree she isn’t a huge talent or ever had to really pay her dues, she sells a ton of records and tour tickets. Her dad may have started her career, but it is self sustaining now.

      This whole feud thing seems ridiculous to me though.

      • Maire3 says:

        Yes, she does sell a ton of records, but take peek behind the curtain of the marketing ploy on her last release “1989”

        The Polaroid design of the cover art was expanded to include a set of imitation Polaroid photos with ‘personal’ notes at the bottom. There were 5 different sets of Polaroids. During the initial release, where sales matter, loyal fans eager & impatient to collect all 5 sets purchased additional CDs (trading any duplicates w/ their friends).

        Forbes did a write up about it

  18. Josefina says:

    Well lets hope they forever hate each other then. A collabo between those 2 would officially mean the ending of music and the deafening of the whole world.

  19. Yura says:

    As far as I’m aware taylor has never actually mentioned Kate’s name at all in regard to this so everything is actually just speculation isn’t it?

    • Maire3 says:

      No, Taylor never straight up called out Katy Perry. Instead – much like the clues in her liner notes – she cryptically leaves hints for the public to decipher. From her RollingStone cover story:

      “For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not,” she says. “She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?'” Then last year, the other star crossed a line. “She did something so horrible,” Swift says. “I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational – you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.”

      (Pressed, Swift admits there might have been a personal element to the conflict. “But I don’t think there would be any personal problem if she weren’t competitive,” she says.)

      http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/taylor-swift-1989-cover-story-20140908

      I also don’t believe it was *not* about a guy, at least in part. The John Mayer connection – his preference for women of certain “measurements” was often spoken of. Made me wonder if that preyed on Taylor’s insecurities enough to resort to enhancing hers.

    • Brea says:

      Please, she basically said everything except the name, that’s why it took the general public less than 5 seconds to realize that the song was about Katy.
      Her m.o is leaving not so veiled clues about the people she plans to smear in her songs, exes and frenemies alike, actually that’s what makes the press so interested in her albums.

  20. Daphne says:

    The scary thing about Taylor is she is the kind of mean girl you do not know is one until it hits you.Reason why she has the fan base she has.Unexpected meaness from nowhere to the onlooker she is just an unfortunate girl you are rooting for others are tough bullies out to harm poor Taylor.

    • Maire3 says:

      Yup, the young fan base are still forming their critical thinking skills. Combined with their social media access, Swift has leveraged it to levels of PR brilliance and banked on it for years

      The only time anyone saw a public “I’m Sorry” is when she inserted herself in the Nicki Minaj tweets responding directly to her with “I’ve done nothing but love & support you …Maybe one of the guys took your spot”

    • Flowerchild says:

      No it more like she the mean girl you don’t want to believe is one so you turn a blind eye to it. Until its staring you right in the face and you have no choice, but to look. Others and myself included have seen Taylor for what she is from the beginning.

  21. Sarah says:

    I dont remember the timeline but wasn’t the whole John Mayer thing a part of it too? There were bad rumours about what went on with him and Taylor… and then her ‘friend’ gets with him down the track? Ick…

    • teacakes says:

      She broke up with Mayer something two years before he and Katy even started hooking up.

      It’s psychotic to hold a grudge that long and then transfer it to someone you consider a “friend” when she wasn’t even cheating with Mayer or anything.

    • Betti says:

      I also think at the time Katy started seeing John Mayer the friendship with Tay Tay seemed to have cooled – the episode with the dancers was the excuse she gave but it was about JM. The dancers in question have already said several times that they had already signed a contract to work with Katy on her tour (which was later in the year) and Tay Tay’s team already new this when they started to work with her – if anything it was Tay Tay who was trying to cause problems with Katy’s tour by hiring the dancers in the first place and hoping to keep them. The whole Swift family is nasty.

      • Bread and Circuses says:

        This is my thought; reports say Taylor fired the dancers on the spot when they gave notice because they were moving to Katy’s tour. Why would Taylor go ballistic like that if it wasn’t personal already? Yes, she had a pre-existing bug up her butt about Katy.

        Also, she wrote that horrible song about Camilla Belle because Camilla started dating Joe Jonas several weeks *after* Joe broke up with Taylor. So yes, Taylor holds grudges and considers ex-boyfriends her property forever.

        Also, that “27-second” phone call during which Joe broke up with Taylor now sounds less like coldness on his part, and more like self-protection. He was trying to extricate himself from an emotionally-manipulative, controlling partner, and keeping his distance while making a clean break was just smart.

  22. KatM says:

    Taylor really resembles a rat in this photo.

  23. kimbers says:

    I feel it just needs to be said, “…..IT’S NOT ABOUT THE DANCERS….”

    ….smoothing out skirt and sits down…….