Things just have officially turned for Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
On Sunday night, Kim released a series of Snapchat videos that actually depicted the phone call between her husband and Swift over the song, “Famous.”
If you’ll recall, there’s a lyric in that Kanye track that refers to Swift as a “bitch” and another that says perhaps he and his former rival could still have “sex” some time.
The song reignited an old feud between West and Swift, with the latter insisting soon after it came out that she was aghast over these references.
HOWEVER, in an interview with GQ last month, Kardashian insisted that Swift knew all about the controversial lyrics in question.
Fast forward to this weekend and Kim making the call between Kanye and Taylor public, the one in which West does certainly appear to run portions of “Famous” by his fellow artist.
“For all my Southside n—as that know me best, I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex,” West can be heard telling Swift while talking about the song.
Swift then tells the rapper:
“I’m like this close to overexposure” before agreeing that the lyric is “like a compliment.”
As you can see above, Kanye then says to Taylor:
“What I give a f-ck about is just you as a person and as a friend,” to which Swift tells Kanye to “go with whatever line…[you think is] better.”
She later thanks West for simply making this gesture, telling him:
“I really appreciate you telling me about it, that’s really nice.
“Even asking or seeing if I’d be OK with it. I just really appreciate it. I would never have expected you to tell me about one of the lines in your song.”
Swift also says she’ll go ahead and tell the press down the line that she and West are “good” and that she approved these lines.
Is it odd that Kim recorded this conversation and then saved it on her phone?
Yes, but she likely planned all along to use it as evidence in case Swift pleaded ignorance and annoyance over the track.
After Kardashian’s Snapchat footage went viral yesterday, the suddenly unpopular singer shared a post on Instagram in that she claimed she wasn’t informed that she would be referred to as “that bitch” in the song.
That, she writes, was and is her issue with the entire thing.
Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that bitch’ in his song? It doesn’t exist because it never happened, Swift writes, continuing in anger:
You don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to being called ‘that bitch’ in front of the entire world. Of course I wanted to like the song.
I wanted to believe Kanye when he told me that I would love the song. I wanted us to have a friendly relationship. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.
While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye on the phone call, you cannot ‘approve’ a song you haven’t heard,” her statement read. “Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.
I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2009.
Prior to releasing the audio of the Kanye-Taylor conversation on Sunday, Kardashian referred to Swift as a snake on Twitter.
“Wait it’s legit National Snake Day?!?!?” she wrote. “They have holidays for everybody, I mean everything these days!”
Man.
It is NOT a good time to be Taylor Swift these days.
Between accusations that she is faking her romance with Tom Hiddleston to all of this back and forth, it’s enough to make even the Taylor Swift haters featured below feel sorry for the superstar.
Maybe?
