Well, if there’s one thing for which Taylor Swift consistently excels, it’s making sure she dominates the headlines over dumb sh-t. We could be talking about the very strange messaging of “You Need to Calm Down” or any of the thinkpieces I referenced yesterday, but instead we’re talking about Katy Perry and the squashed beef. We’re talking about it because Taylor is talking about it, and because that’s the conversation she’s comfortable with. You know why she’s comfortable? Because she thinks she “won” the beef. She thinks Katy was weak for apologizing to her (over nothing) and for wanting to be all about peace-love-and-happiness. Taylor made Katy wait until Taylor could find a way to profit from it, so here we are. The beef is squashed in a puddle of rainbow flags, false eyelash strips and drag queens.
As we heard yesterday, Taylor explained the End of the Beef to the radio show Capital Breakfast this week. She basically said that Katy made the first move by sending her an olive branch and how they hugged at a party and blah blah blah. But there were these other quotes too:
“We have been on really good terms for a while. But the first time we saw each other was at this party, and it was just very clear to both of us that everything was different. That we had grown up. That we had grown past allowing ourselves to be pitted against each other. It just was really, really clear that we remembered how much we had in common. Both of us have been in a really good place for a while, but I don’t know if either of us knew if we were gonna talk about it publicly.”
“…It was just very clear to both of us that everything was different. That we had grown up…” I get that. But it literally took five years and Katy sending her an actual OLIVE BRANCH for Taylor to “forgive” Katy for the crime of… being friends with some backup dancers. Katy had already grown past it in real time. Taylor, the champion petty AF grudge-holder, was the one who needed to grow up. Also, this: “That we had grown past allowing ourselves to be pitted against each other.” OMFG. NO ONE DID THIS TO YOU. TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY YOU SNAKE. Taylor is 29 years old and still convinced that nothing is EVER her fault or her responsibility. My God.
"I would love for us to be a symbol of redemption and forgiveness" 💕@TaylorSwift13 tells @GregJames about @KatyPerry's surprise appearance in her new video 😍 pic.twitter.com/ZzXCJSD8bj
— BBC Radio 1 (@BBCR1) June 17, 2019
This meal is BEEF-free #MeatFreeMonday 🍔♥️🍟 #YNTCDmusicvideohttps://t.co/m2kA0mZgQe pic.twitter.com/yKYmnTxBy5
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) June 17, 2019
Some of us had champagne on set and it shows 🥂 pic.twitter.com/Kxq7AcY8TL
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 18, 2019
Photos courtesy of Taylor Swift’s social media.
Taylor you pitted yourself against Katy when you wrote a whole song about her. Geez
this woman will never take responsibility.
In so many ways she remains such a child. Didn’t George Cloooney say that you remain the age which you got famous? Taylor still seems so childish to me. No one pitted them against each other, yes the media capitalized on the beef but it was a situation Taylor created. Yeesh.
This is why the LGBTQ community is so wary of her as an ally. Look what she did to feminism.
I love that she evoked the whole snake thing -AGAIN – in a song about how people should ‘calm down’ and get over it. There is literally s lyric ‘snakes and stones won’t break my bones’, or whatever.
Clearly the irony is lost on her. Especially given that SHE seems to be the one who won’t let it go, at this point. Kim literally went in the record to say she’s over it, and hasn’t talked about it since, whereas here is Taylor referencing that ridiculous saga in lyric and imagery.
She’s quite a pro at playing victim and abdicating responsibility for her actions huh.
yet again she changes the narrative and nobody goes “that’s not what happened. nobody pitted you against each other. you started an issue because you were mad and then you talked about in Rolling Stone and had a whole song about it.”
ugh. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Taylor is proof that you’re stunted at the age you became famous. She’s forever a teenager.
This.
She is positively exhausting. She is forever going to be emotionally stunted with this childish mindset.
Just when I was starting to come around to Taylor, she does this kind of thing – Be better Taylor, be better.
Seriously? The media didn’t force her to create an entire song and video bashing Perry. The media didn’t force her to drop constant hints about the subject matter, which was hardly a new habit for her. They didn’t force her to continue to bash Perry well after their initial clash. This woman will never take responsibility for her actions. She’s a perpetual victim of everyone and everything around her.
This.
While the media certainly added to it, all of it started with her, and she fed into it for yours. So spare us your sob story, Taylor.
It annoys me to no end when anybody tries to rewrite history because these stories and their comments are well documented. (Looking at you, Trump.) Best case scenario: the reporting was wrong and she really was over it a long time ago, THEN decided to lean into the false narrative in order to make money and generate buzz for herself. That is still a terrible look.
Just exhausting regardless.
God she’s tiring.
She really needs to grow up. People put up with her middle school nonsense because for various reasons they still think of her as a girl and not a 29yr old woman, but best case she’s only got a few years grace left there. Eventually she’s going to reach a tipping point where even her fans can’t abide her acting like a particularly immature 13yr old. It doesn’t help that she actually seems to have been regressing the last few years.
Forcing Katy Perry to dress up like a giant hamburger is the very definition of shady.
Katy wore this “outfit” on this year Met Gala, so it’s her stylist forced her to wear this.
So full of herself
She literally started it and now she’s trying to claim victimhood. Why do people keep letting her get away with shifting the narrative in her favor? She’s 30 years old, when is she going to start taking responsibility for anything?
Darth Becky strikes again.
I’m not certain how we are supposed to believe her advocacy is methodical and meaningful if she still after all this time cannot own her own role and understand her nature vs the environment around her.
That’s not to say I don’t believe Taylor has good intentions with regards to civil rights, pride, and feminism. But that these comments show clearly that she doesn’t understand these movements, doesn’t understand true marginalization, or how the patriarchy operates.
How can you be a true ally and advocate and work meaningfully against various systems without a true understanding of how they work and what part you play in them?
Darth Becky!!
We grew past allowing ourselves to be pitted against each other= I found a way to get money/attention out of ending our feud, just like i got money/attention out of starting it.
Wow, who knew the big bad media forced her to write Bad Blood and make that ridiculous music video? Who knew the media made her continue to talk about the feud long after it first started?
LOL. Okay, Tay. After her lying about GoT episodes that weren’t even released at the time of Reputation inspiring her songs, I’m starting to think she’s a pathological liar.
Which episodes? Hadn’t heard this.
Swift gave a bunch of interviews claiming songs on reputation were GoT-inspired instead of coded references to her own life, which now kind of looks like she was already planning her image walkback for Lover. “I Did Something Bad” was supposed to be about Littlefinger’s death, “Look What You Made Me Do” was from Arya’s POV planning her kill list… although where there’s a “tilted stage” in GoT, search me. (Also, Arya thinking about the brutal deaths of her family as “another day another drama”… even if it were true, that means Swift’s songwriting abilities really are getting worse.)
Bummed to read this quote blaming the media. She almost sounded mature until she said that.
What a petulant baby.
This. This is why I can’t stand Taylor Swift. If she could stop talking forever, I would be in full support of that.
Taylor’s music can’t just stand alone, to be enjoyed, critiqued as art. It has to have a f&*king theme and the theme is always some statement Taylor feels she is entitled to make about what she perceives is misinformation about her. It is a contrived production.
Because no one would bother to listen to her crappy songs if they weren’t curious “what is she gonna say?”
I’ll be curious to see if Katy Perry starts going on talk shows discussing this nonsense.
Well we don’t really know if their “fight” was just about back-up dancers. That’s between them. I say if you want to forget and forgive so be it. If you also want to never forget and forgive because some people don’t deserve forgiveness, then so be it too. There are people in my life I will never forgive because they took things way too far and actually caused a lot of stress in my life. F*ck them I say ! That doesn’t mean I’m a bad person for not wanting to forgive…it just means some people are unforgivable.
Taylor is not just rich, she’s immensely powerful, both in the country and pop worlds. I imagine she has an astonishing amount of connections that she could use to negatively affect Katy’s career. Not even just producers, etc. but Apple and AT&T and gosh only knows what else. So I wonder if Katy “genuinely” wanted to make amends or if she felt like she had no other choice.
Ugh, I’m generally a fan of Taylor, but she really can’t take any responsibility, can she? STOP MAKING IT HARD TO LIKE YOUUUU.
And this lady will be 30 yo by the end of the year *sigh*. I liked that period when TS decided to not give interviews lol. Not necessarily a fan but It annoys me that KP had to be the one to apologize for that back up dancers nonsense but I can understand that she wanted to move on permanently from that childish feud. Because TS would never admit she was in the wrong (Starting the feud, bullying KP by showing off her “friends” etc) and probably won’t like never ever. To be honest I enjoy her songs from her past albums like RED and 1989 (Her masterpieces if we can call that) but everytime I read an article about her that reminds me why it’s hard to like her. I should avoid but I can’t help so it’s on me.
On a better positive note I hope: I come every day to Celebitchy (It’s basically a tradition now) and enjoy the articles and the comments. It’s hilarious and so insightful.
They kill me pretending the fight is over back up dancers when we all know it’s about John Mayer.
Taylor Swift, the most self-centered pop star of them all. And that’s saying alot.
I doubt this peace stance will last, mostly because the actual problem was never addressed or acknowledged. The problem will still be there (Taylor’s immaturity and narcissism).