TAYLOR Swift and Kim Kardashian have been feuding since Kardashian’s now ex-husband Kanye West referenced the pop star in his hit song Famous.
Fans on both sides of the iconic celebrity feud also got in on the action, with an unknown artist creating a mural of Taylor Swift striking a pose similar to Kim Kardashian’s 2014 Paper Magazine cover photo.
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Taylor Swift’s Ages tour traveled across Europe all summer, and the singer’s next stop will be in Milan, Italy.
Taylor is set to perform at the San Siro Stadium on July 13th and 14th, and her Italian fans are already preparing for the pop icon’s arrival.
A mural, created by pop artist Alexsandro Palombo, appeared in front of the stadium, showing Taylor striking a pose similar to that of her famous enemy, Kim Kardashian.
In 2014, Kim Kardashian posed for the winter issue of Paper Magazine.
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The magazine’s cover story simply read: “Break The Internet Kim Kardashian” and featured the star posing nude.
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Wearing nothing but a pearl choker, earrings and black gloves, and while holding a black dress underneath her butt and facing away from the camera, Kim smiled shyly at the camera.
Photographed by photographer Jean-Paul Goude, Kardashian also posed in other similar photos, including one in which she opens a bottle of champagne while the glass rests on her butt.
It was a recreation of Goude’s famous 1976 photo, which showed Dominican model and actress Carolina Beaumont striking the same pose.
The mural also shows what appears to be Kim’s body on display, with fuchsia gloves delicately holding up a black sequin dress.
Palombo made an unusual choice, however, when instead of painting Kim’s face, he opted to paint Taylor Swift’s.
The singer is adorned in a similar pearl choker, with her blonde hair and bangs parted in a slight wave to the right side, showing off a small pearl earring.
Like the original, the mural features Kim’s most famous asset — but this time, the words from Taylor’s new track thank you to IMee are written across her left cheek.
The track is from Taylor’s 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department.
It’s also rumored to be a jab at Kim Kardashian, starting with the song’s title.
Taylor deliberately capitalized three letters in the title, which indicate Kim’s first name.
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The track’s lyrics also reference the ongoing rivalry between Taylor and Kim, where Taylor compares Kim to a high school bully.
“There’s a bronzed bronze statue of you and a sign beneath it / That threatens to push me down the stairs, at our school.”
“All that time you were throwing punches, I was building something / And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel,” some of the song’s lyrics were also tweeted by Taylor Nation alongside a Reputation-era gif.
Taylor’s reputation era signified her “comeback” after initially feuding with Kim and Kanye West.
Taylor’s Bitter Feud With Kanye and Kim Explained
Taylor Swift has been locked in a nasty feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian for years.
- 2009 – Kanye interrupted Taylor’s VMA win for Best Female Video on stage, saying, “I’m really happy for you and I’m going to let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.”
- 2009 – Later that month, Kanye admitted he regretted the action and Taylor confirmed she called to apologize
- 2010 – Taylor performed Innocent, a song said to be about Kanye, at the VMAs, singing: “It’s okay / Just wait and see / Your string of lights still shines for me / Who you are is not where you’ve been”
- 2013 – Kanye withdrew his apology to the singer, insisting: “I have no regrets.”
- 2015 – The former rivals reunited at the 2015 Grammy Awards and posed for photos together and Taylor later said she “likes him as a person.”
- 2016 – Kanye debuted his song, Famous, with the lyrics: “I feel like me and Taylor can still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous”
- 2016 – After Taylor insisted she didn’t approve of the lyrics, “I make that b***hfamous,” Kim released a video of her phone call with Kanye
- 2017 – Taylor apparently referenced their feud on her album, Reputation, teasing the news with videos of a snake – a nod to the snake emojis posted in her Instagram comments, suggesting she was a liar – and appeared to insult Kanye in her song, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
- 2018 – Taylor said Kim hadn’t released the full recording and asked, “Where’s 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. You can’t control Kim’s emotional response. someone by being called ‘that idiot’ in front of the whole world.”
- 2019 – Kim insisted in a magazine interview that they had “squashed” their feud
- 2019 – Taylor claimed that Kanye’s famous music video was “revenge porn” as it featured a fake nude sculpture of her.
- 2020 – The full phone call between Taylor and Kanye was leaked, in which there was no mention of her being called “that bitch”
- 2020 – Kim initially said the call revealed “nothing new” and then backtracked and tweeted, “The only issue I had surrounding the situation was that Taylor lied through her publicist, who stated that ‘Kanye never called to ask for permission. …’ They spoke clearly, so I let you all see that. No one has ever denied that the word ‘b***h’ was used without her permission.
- 2023 – Taylor said in an interview with TIME that the rivalry between Kim and Kanye felt like a “career death” and “brought her down psychologically”
“I screamed, ‘Fuck you, Aimee,’ to the night sky as the blood gushed / But I can’t forget the way you made me heal,” are another sample of the pop star’s lyrics.
On Apple Music and Spotify, both “F*ck you Aimee” and “Thank you Aimee”, in the clean version, are specifically capitalized, also spelling out the KKW Beauty star’s name.
Fans also pointed out that Taylor may have referenced Kim’s eldest daughter, North West, in the song as well.
“And one day, your son comes home singing a song that only the two of us will know is about you.”
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North has previously posted videos on TikTok of herself dancing to Taylor’s hit Shake It Off.
“Did anyone check on Kim Kardashian after Taylor Swift just handed her ass on a silver platter,” asked one fan.
“Not a song about a school bully being called thank you IMEE… KIM,” wrote another user.
“This album is SO disturbing,” another user commented.
On June 22, 2024, Taylor performed thanK you aIMee as part of a mashup featuring her 2010 song Mean during her acoustic set in London.
Taylor had previously told the media that the track was written in response to her critics, although many fans also interpreted it as a criticism of Kanye West, who interrupted the star on stage during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
Fans attending one or both of the Eras tour stops in Italy will likely be in for a treat as they will be able to witness the mural up close, although they will have to stay tuned to hear what surprise songs Taylor chooses to perform on those nights.
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