Happy Snake Day everyone.
Last night, Kim Kardashian West hinted to her 46.6 million Twitter followers that she was brewing some tea for an epic takedown. She tweeted about National Snake Day, and then later tweeted, “do u guys follow me on snap chat? u really should.”
Those who do follow her on Snapchat were treated to Snaps of footage on Kim’s laptop of husband Kanye West in a studio on the phone, with mega producer Ruck Rubin on the couch beside him. And who was Kanye on the phone to?
Surely, it couldn’t be Taylor Swift?, because her team issued a statement in February when West’s song ‘Famous’ was released, stating that “Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single ‘Famous’ on her Twitter account.” Yet Kim has recorded on Snapchat the conversation between Kanye and Taylor discussing the controversial lyrics that Swift has since condemned and denied having any knowledge of.
In the video, the conversation can be heard clearly: Kanye West reads the ‘Famous’ lyric, “To all my southside n—-s that know me best, I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.” Taylor responds with, “I’m like this close to overexposure,” but actually says the line is “a compliment, kind of.” West says that “All I give a f–k about is you as a person and as a friend, I want things that make you feel good.”
FULL video : @KimKardashian exposing Taylor Swift by posting her phone call with Kanye about "Famous" on Snapchat pic.twitter.com/xuYnwPV9u1
— Elena and Anthony (@LabOfHookers) July 18, 2016
As the videos go on, there is a part where Taylor is talking at length about how much she respects West as an artist, as well as a person and a friend for coming to her about the lyrics. Taylor goes on to fully explain her support of Kanye’s lyrics about her: “And you know, if people ask me about it I think it would be great for me to be like, ‘Look, he called me and told me the line before it came out. Jokes on you guys, we’re fine.’ You guys want to call this a feud; you want to call this throwing shade but right after the song comes out I’m going to be on a Grammys red carpet and they’re going to ask me about it and I’ll be like, ‘He called me.’ It’s awesome that you’re so outspoken about this and be like, ‘Yeah, she does. It made her famous.’ It’s more provocative to say ‘might still have sex…’ It’s doesn’t matter to me. There’s not like one [line] that hurts my feelings and one that doesn’t.” This makes it seem like she was aware of the second half of the lyrics, despite claiming she was not.
Taylor Swift WAS also aware of the "I made that bitch famous" line #KimExposedTaylorParty pic.twitter.com/gEeF8UqtFD
— ㅤㅤㅤBritney Spears (@godneybjs) July 18, 2016
Twitter has gone into meltdown over the situation, with many people commenting to Taylor “you’re finished.” Taylor has responded with an Instagram post, where she says that “Being falsely printed as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.” This seems like a bizarre choice of words, considering the nature of Swift’s lyrics. If being painted in a negative light by a one-sided story, or song, is “character assassination,” then R.I.P the characters of John Mayer (who has spoken out about Swift’s song about him), Harry Styles (who she called out during her speech at the 2013 VMAs, something Taylor of all people should understand the embarrassment of…) and, most brutally, Joe Jonas (there’s many videos on YouTube from 2008 of Taylor speaking about their breakup, including one of her holding up a Joe Jonas doll and telling a Barbie doll to “stay away”). Taking all of this into consideration, it’s difficult to have any sympathy for Taylor.
