Fans have unanimously agreed that Taylor Swift’s new album has something to do with Kim Kardashian. Swift dropped a surprise second set of songs at 2 a.m. on Friday, turning “The Tortured Poets Department” into a covert double album.
In the track titled “thanK you aIMee,” fans were quick to notice that the capitalized letters spelt out a specific name — Kim.
The 34-year-old singer-songwriter frequently embeds hidden messages in her lyrics through capitalization, and this particular song aims at an individual she likens to a high school bully.
Speculation among fans is already swirling that the target of the song is Kardashian, 43. Swift sings about a “bronze spray-tanned statue” of “Aimee” with a “plaque underneath it that threatens to push me down the stairs at our school,” as she paints a vivid picture of her hometown.
“All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’/ And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel/ Screamed ‘F – – k you, Aimee’ to the night sky, as the blood was gushin’/ But I can’t forget the way you made me heal.”
She goes on to note it was never a “fair fight” or a “clean kill” between the two and describes the unnamed person as “stomping across” her “grave.”
Even more, Swift refers to her mother, Andrea Swift, noting: “Everyone knows that my mother is as a saintly woman / But she used to say she wished that you were dead.”
Despite their ongoing feud, Kardashian has previously noted she listens to Swift, 34. On “thanK you aIMee,” Swift concludes: “And one day, your kid comes home singin’ a song that only us two is gonna know is about you.”
Kardashian and ex-husband Kanye West share North, 10, Saint, 8, Chicago, 6, and Psalm, 4. Swift’s ups and downs with the pair began years ago.
It began with the rapper’s infamous 2009 interruption of Swift’s acceptance speech at the Video Music Awards, and continued in 2016, when West released the song “Famous.”
In the song, he rapped the line, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/ Why? I made that bitch famous” and claimed that Swift had consented to the lyrics.
Swift refuted the claim, prompting Kardashian to unveil a recording of a conversation suggesting Swift’s dishonesty and approval of the couple’s actions. Kardashian also insinuated that Swift was deceitful.
During an interview with Time celebrating Swift’s recognition as the Person of the Year for 2023, Swift described the feud as a “dark” period and mentioned retreating to “an overseas location” where she stayed in a rental house for a year.
“I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore,” she revealed. “I went down really, really hard.”
In 2019, Kardashian said on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” that the feud had ended, but the full phone exchange between West and Swift was released one year later — seemingly revealing Swift was telling the truth.
“The video showed nothing new. We all knew that. I’m so confused right now,” Kardashian tweeted at the time.
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