Taylor Swift Shades Kim Kardashian on The Tortured Poets Department’s “thanK you aIMee”
Taylor Swift calls out her longstanding feud with Kim Kardashian in a thinly-veiled diss observe on The Tortured Poets Department titled “thanK you aIMee.”
For Taylor Swift, some gruesome blood is more sturdy to bury.
It's a fact only confirmed with the launch of her 11th—and a shock double—album The Tortured Poets Department, in which the Grammy winner seems to rob a thinly-veiled jab at Kim Kardashian, with whom Taylor has had a longstanding feud.
The jab comes in the originate of a observe on half two of TTPD titled “thanK you aIMee.” And sure, the capitalized letters create indeed spell out the name KIM. What follows is an allegorical retelling of Taylor and Kim's historical previous in the originate of Taylor versus a excessive school bully.
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“After I list my discipline of beginning / There's a bronze spray-tanned statue of you,” Taylor sings in the predominant verse. “And a plaque under it / That threatens to push me down the steps, at our college.”
And in the 2nd verse, Taylor slams the headlines that she alleges Kim triggered with her actions—equivalent to when she shared footage of the incorrect 2016 phone call between Taylor and Kanye West—while noting the discrepancy of their occupation development on the time.
“And it wasn't a swish war, or a orderly assassinate / Every time that Aimee stomped across my gravе,” she sings. “After which she wrote hеadlines / In the local paper, laughing at each toddler step I'd rob.”
In December, Taylor spoke to her psychological health at some stage in the final public drop out between her, Kim and Kanye. As she told TIME, “You dangle a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited after which place out to advise to all individuals that I changed into as soon as a liar. That took me down psychologically to a discipline I've below no circumstances been before.”
The tune's lyrics grow gradually more cutting back—with traces equivalent to “Each person is conscious of that my mom is a saintly woman / Nonetheless she outdated to advise she wished that you were ineffective”—before Taylor takes presumably her finest swing on the SKIMS founder.
Whereas noting that Kim has “presumably reframed” their historical previous in her mind, Taylor counters that she “doesn't assume she's changed worthy,” before spelling out her motive unhurried penning the tune.
“And so I changed your name, and any proper defining clues,” she sings in the bridge. “And at some point soon, your kid comes dwelling singin' / A tune that only us two is gonna know is ready you.”
Nonetheless though “thanK you aIMee” spends worthy of its lyrics describing the adversity “Aimee” place Taylor up against, the Midnights artist also acknowledges the ways in which it compelled her to grow—hinting on the upper legacy she's constructed.
“All that time you were throwin' punches, I changed into as soon as buildin' somethin',” she sings in the chorus, on the end including, “And our city, it looks so tiny, from manner up here / Screamed “Thanks, Aimee” to the evening sky, and the stars are stunnin' / 'Reason I will't neglect the manner you made me heal.”
Attach reading for more of the man easter eggs and allusions in The Tortured Poets Department.
“Fortnight” (featuring Submit Malone): In the predominant observe of TTPD, Taylor Swift and Submit Malone team of workers up to yell about a “short-interval of time” romance that lasted for a fortnight (two weeks).
“And I love you, it's ruining my lifestyles,” the lyrics tease. “I touched you, for only a fortnight.”
It seems the tune is a reference to Taylor's rekindled romance with The 1975's Matty Healy, which first started in 2014 and revived a decade later in the spring of 2023 following her breakup with Joe Alwyn.
And even though the revival of Taylor and Matty's relationship changed into as soon as short, it changed into as soon as jam-packed with emotion, in retaining with these lyrics.
She told iHeartRadio the opening number is “fatalistic” appropriate love the relaxation of the “tragic” album.
“The Tortured Poets Department”: Whereas fans beforehand identified the connection between the album's name TTPD and Joe's WhatsApp team of workers chat known as “The Tortured Man Membership,” the titular tune in actuality comprises references to Matty.
Even the observe's opening lyrics, “You left your typewriter at my house,” presents a nod to Matty, who eminent he “in actuality” likes typewriters in a 2019 interview with GQ.
In a while in the tune, the lyrics provide more insight into Taylor and Matty's solid bond. Taylor even remembers, “At dinner you rob my ring off my heart finger and place it on the one amongst us place marriage ceremony rings on. And that’s the closest I’ve come to my heart exploding.”
Taylor's lyrics also encompass shoutouts to poet Dylan Thomas—”you're not Dylan Thomas”—and singer-songwriter Patti Smith—”I'm not Patti Smith.” As properly as Charlie Puth. “You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth wants to be a larger artist.”
“My Boy Handiest Breaks His Celebrated Toys”: “I'm queen of sandcastles he destroys,” Taylor sings on the third tune on the album, in which she remembers a accomplice who ran faraway from their relationship.
“Reason I knew too worthy / There changed into as soon as chance in the warmth of my touch,” the lyrics scream. “Saw perpetually so he smashed it up.”
The Grammy winner told iHeartRadio the observe is a “metaphor from the attitude of a kid's toy,” the put the kid breaks the toy and doesn't want to play with it anymore—appropriate love in relationships, the put “we're so valued in the starting.” It's relating to the denial that the romance can't meander back to that.
She beforehand in comparison lovers to toys in 2019's “Cruel Summer season,” in which she sang, “Scandalous, gruesome boy, colorful toy with a price / You have in mind the actual fact that I sold it.”
“Down Scandalous”: In the lyrics to this tune, Taylor reflects on being ghosted by a man, who she calls her “twin,” after being infatuated by him.
“How dare you assume it's romantic / Leaving me true and stranded,” she sings. “Reason f–k it, I changed into as soon as in love / So f–k you if I will't dangle us.”
The “stranded” lyric also can sound familiar to Swifties, provided that Taylor makes exercise of it in the 1989 tune “Recent Romantics”: “Please leave me stranded / It's so romantic.”
Taylor admitted to iHeartRadio that “Down Scandalous” compares the “understanding of being love bombed—the put any person rocks your world and dazzles you after which more or much less abandons you—as an alien abduction.” The artist talked about when the personality changed into as soon as “dropped back off” in her discipline of beginning, she misses the numerous “weird and wonderful” world.
“I've appropriate been uncovered to a whole varied galaxy and universe I didn't know changed into as soon as potential,” Taylor explained. “How can you appropriate place me back the put I changed into as soon as before?”
“So Long, London”: Taylor has been known to reserve observe five for her most heartbreaking songs, and, sure, “So Long, London” with out a doubt fits the invoice.
On this observe, Taylor reflects on the end of her relationship with Joe (who beforehand impressed “London Boy”) and the recollections they shared in the city collectively over time. She also alludes to what led to the loss of life of their relationship.
“I didn't decide in to be your weird and wonderful man out,” she sings. “I based the membership she's heard worthy things about / I left all I knew, you left me on the dwelling by the Heath.”
“Nonetheless Daddy I Fancy Him”: Taylor raised eyebrows when she spent time with Matty, who's been known as out for his controverisal comments over time. In “Nonetheless Daddy I Fancy Him,” she addresses a the same theme of searching a relationship to work no topic criticism from the skin world.
“No I'm not coming to my senses,” she announces. “I understand it's crazy nevertheless he's the one I favor.”
“New Out the Slammer”: After getting out of a protracted relationship with Joe, Taylor apparently knew who she wished to call: Matty.
“I did my time,” she sings. “Now stunning toddler I'm running back dwelling to you.”
“Florida!!!” (featuring Florence and the Machine): What to create whenever you happen to want an rupture out? Head to Florida. As a minimum, that's what Taylor and Florence Welch expose on this observe.
“You are going to be ready to beat the warmth whenever you happen to beat the costs too / They talked about I changed into as soon as a cheat, I thunder it may perhaps presumably well per chance also unexcited be true,” Taylor sings, referencing speculation about her private lifestyles. “And my pals, all scent love weed or small babies / And the city reeks of riding myself crazy.”
“I must neglect, so rob me to Florida,” the lyrics later proceed. “I've obtained some regrets, I'll bury them in Florida.”
Taylor explained that the tune changed into as soon as in actuality impressed by true crime sagas about escaping city.
“I’m at all times staring at love Dateline—of us, , dangle these crimes that they commit,” she told iHeartRadio. “The put create they straight away skip city and meander to? They meander to Florida, ? They love strive to reinvent themselves, dangle a brand unique identity, blend in. And I assume whenever you happen to fight thru a heartbreak, there’s half of you that thinks, 'I favor a brand unique name, I favor a brand unique lifestyles, I don’t favor anyone to know the put I’ve been or know me at all.'”
One final secret about “Florida!!!”? Taylor's friend Emma Stone helped write the tune.
“Responsible as Sin?”: In any other obvious nod to Matty, Taylor begins “Responsible as Sin?” with the lyrics, “Drowning in the Blue Nile / He sent me downtown lights.” Effectively, it appropriate so happens that, back in 2022, Matty named The Blue Nile's Hats as one amongst his favourite albums of the Nineteen Eighties.
“Who's Scared of Cramped Dilapidated Me?”: Taylor tackles her critics on this passionate observe.”Is it a shock I broke? Let’s hear one morе shaggy dog legend,” she sings. “Then we also can all appropriate laugh till I disclose.”
“I Can Fix Him (No Certainly I Can)”: As Taylor notes on this tune, she believed she also can relieve swap any person, no topic any naysayers.
“The smoke cloud billows out his mouth love a freight educate thru a tiny city,” she sings. “The jokes that he told across the bar were revolting and some distance too loud.”
“Thеy shake their heads announcing, 'God, relieve her' when I elaborate 'em he's my man,” the lyrics proceed. “Nonetheless your upright lord doesn't must rob a finger / I will repair him, no, in actuality, I will / And only I will.”
“Loml”: On this transferring observe, Taylor first sings about being known as the love of any person's lifestyles “about 1,000,000 instances.” On the other hand, the dynamic rapidly changed.
“For these that comprehend it in a single gaze, it's legendary,” she notes. “What we understanding changed into as soon as for all time changed into as soon as short-interval of time.”
She ends the tune by letting the particular person know, “You're the lack of my lifestyles.”
Whereas it’d be about her long relationship with Joe, lyrics about “rekindled flames” and “we were appropriate children, babe” keep it's about her spark with Matty in spite of the whole lot these years: “I've felt a glow love this below no circumstances before and below no circumstances since.”
“I Can Invent It With a Damaged Coronary heart”: The tune seems about Taylor slaying her Eras Tour no topic the heartbreak, noting that she's “hittin' my marks” on stage in front of a chanting crowd. She hides her emotions by striking on a solid face: “Lights, digicam, bitch smile.”
Though this tune is upbeat, it's stuffed with lyrics of unrequited love.
“I'm so enthusiastic about him, nevertheless he avoids me love the plague / I disclose quite a bit, nevertheless I’m so productive, it's an art,” she sings. “You understand you're upright whenever you happen to presumably may perhaps presumably well even create it with a broken heart.”
“The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”: Taylor has a pair of questions for “the smallest man who ever lived,” who apparently left their relationship out of nowhere.
“You kicked out the stage lights, nevertheless you're unexcited performing,” she sings. “And in undeniable stare you hid / Nonetheless it’s doubtless you’ll presumably well per chance also very properly be what you doubtless did.”
“The Alchemy”: After ditching “the clowns,” Taylor discovered the guy on the Chiefs. In “The Alchemy,” an obvious nod to her NFL player boyfriend Travis Kelce, Taylor makes several sports references.
“I haven't come around in goodbye / Nonetheless I'm coming back solid,” Taylor sings. “So when I touch down, call the amateurs and sever 'em from the team of workers.”
She later references her previous “blokes,” who “warm the benches,” noting “we been on a winning plug.”
“Clara Bow”: The lyrics to the remaining tune on the album address the connection between Taylor and the slack actress Clara Bow, whose lifestyles, the same to Taylor's, changed into as soon as subjected to worthy speculation and scrutiny.
“It's hell on earth to be shapely,” Taylor sings. “Them's the brakes, they don't come gently.”
The lyrics also place a highlight on the comparisons of ladies in the final public ogle, with the level out of Clara, Stevie Nicks and Taylor herself.
And, as if being told to the following superstar in line, “You expect love Taylor Swift / On this light, we're loving it,” the lyrics roar. “You've obtained edge, she below no circumstances did / The long scoot's spirited, stunning.”
“thanK you aIMee”: After gruesome fans at 2 a.m. with a double album, featuring 15 additional Tortured Poet songs, Swifties were snappily to space Kim Kardashian's name in the title of “thanK you aIMee.”
“And it wasn't a swish war, or a orderly assassinate / Every time that Aimee stomped across my gravе,” Taylor sings, apparently referencing the incorrect phone call between her and Kanye West that Kim posted online in 2016. “After which she wrote hеadlinesIn the local paper, laughing at each toddler step I'd rob.”
Nonetheless, as the lyrics scream, Taylor is stronger now: “All that time you were throwin' punches, I changed into as soon as buildin' somethin' / And I couldn't wait to demonstrate you it changed into as soon as proper / Screamed “F–k you, Aimee” to the evening sky, as the blood changed into as soon as gushin' / Nonetheless I will't neglect the manner you made me heal.”
“So High College”: Taylor seems to compare her love legend with Travis to a sweet excessive school romance.
“Are you gonna marry, kiss or assassinate me?” she sings. “It's appropriate a sport, nevertheless in actuality I'm bettin' on all three for us two.”
Travis changed into as soon as as soon as requested in a viral throwback video to play “kiss, marry, assassinate” with Taylor, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande. (He talked about he'd kiss Taylor and marry Katy.)
In “So High College,” Taylor also alludes to Travis opening doors for her and presumably the evening she rode in a convertible with him after one amongst his soccer games, noting, “Win my car door, isn't that sweet? Then pull me to thе backseat.”
Now to not level out this mic-drop: “You understand ball, I know Aristotle.”
“Peter”: She sings about a one who told her changed into as soon as gonna “grow up” after which “come secure” her to start their lives. On the other hand, one clue about Peter's age tipped fans off that Peter also can very properly be a pseudonym for Matty.
“And also you talked about you'd come and obtain me, nevertheless you were 25,” Taylor sings. “And the shelf lifestyles of these fantasies has expired.”
Certainly, Matty changed into as soon as about 25 years dilapidated in 2014, when the pair grew end and he famously supported Taylor by wearing a 1989 T-shirt.
The Peter on this tune is also doubtless the same Peter in 2020's “Cardigan” (“Peter losing Wendy”) as a reference to Peter Pan.
“Misplaced to the 'Misplaced Boys' chapter of your lifestyles,” read the lyrics of her unique 2024 observe. “Forgive me, Peter, please know that I attempted.”
Restful not pleased Matty is THE Peter? When he and Taylor were dating in Would possibly presumably well also fair 2023, she mouthed the words “This one is ready you. You understand who it’s doubtless you’ll presumably well per chance also very properly be. I love you” on stage on the Eras Tour while performing “Cardigan.”
“The Manuscript”: The lyrics also can reference her romance with John Mayer—who she dated in 2009 when she changed into as soon as 19 and he changed into as soon as 32—since she sings about an age gap.
“In the age of him, she wished she changed into as soon as 30 / And made coffee each morning in a Frеnch press,” Taylor sings, later including, “She regarded as how he talked about since she changed into as soon as so spirited beyond her years / The whole lot had been above board / She wasn't determined.”
He is also believed to dangle impressed her previous songs “Expensive John” and “Would've, Would possibly presumably've, Ought to unexcited've.”
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