Taylor Swift is seemingly confirming that one of her songs from her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” is about Kim Kardashian and her ex husband. Kardashian and Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, have been rumored to be the subject of Swift's track "thanK you aIMee," which came out in the extended 2 a.m.
release on April 19. The capitalized letters spell out KIM, seemingly a reference to Kardashian. But in an official marketing email from Taylor Nation months later, on Aug.
15, Swift's team changed the way the song was spelled to "thank You aimEe," spelling YE in capital letters instead. The August email was promoting $5 downloads of her “TTPD” album, plus two bonus tracks recorded live — including a mash-up of “thank You aimEe,” and “Mean.” Swift, Ye, and Kardashian have had a long-running feud , beginning in 2009 when Ye interrupted Swift's acceptance speech for best female video to say that "Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.
" Revisit our live coverage of the release of “The Tortured Poets Department.” The lyrics of "thank You aimEe" appear to be about a mean girl at school, but while interpreting the song, fans honed in on several lines in particular. “I don’t think you’ve changed much/ And so I changed your name, and any real defining clues,” Swift sings on the track.
“And one day, your kid comes home singin’/ A song that only us two is gonna know is about you.” Fans pointed out Kardashian’s oldest daughter North West has posted TikToks about Swift. Swifties also looked at the lyrics to the 27th song, “Cassandra,” and found possible references to the billionaire owner of Skims , who once referred to Swift with the snake emoji — which later became a defining symbol of the singer’s “Reputation” era .
“So they killed Cassandra first ‘cause she feared the worst/ And tried to tell the town,” Swift sings on “Cassandra.” “So they filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say/ Do you believe me now?” Another part of the song references “the call,” which could be a nod to the phone call Kardashian recorded between her then-husband Kanye West and Swift in 2016. “I was in my new house placing daydreams/ Patching up the crack along the wall,” Swift sings on “Cassandra.
” “I pass it and lose track of what I’m saying/ ‘Cause that’s where I was when I got the call.” Kardashian released a clip of the recording of their phone call shortly after West released his song “Famous,” which included a line where he posited he was the reason for Swift’s fame. That likely references their run-in at the 2009 VMAs, where he interrupted her acceptance speech for best female video.
“I’ma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!” he said, leaving Swift stunned on stage. After Kardashian released the recording of Swift and West’s conversation, which appeared to show Swift saying she was OK with the line in “Famous,” Swift wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post she was trying to be supportive on the call, but she couldn’t approve a song she hadn’t heard in full. “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 part of, since 2009,” she wrote in the post. Swift’s “Reputation” era began one year later in 2017. The pop icon addressed the entire incident in her Time Person of the Year profile last year.
“You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,” she said . “That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country.
I didn’t leave 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.
I went down really, really hard.” Kardashian has not commented on the new Swift songs. Read the full lyrics to both “thanK you aIMee” and “Cassandra” below.
‘thanK you aIMee’ lyrics When I picture my hometown There’s a bronze spray-tanned statue of you And a plaque underneath it That threatens to push me down the stairs, at our school And it was always the same searing pain But I dreamed that one day, I could say All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’ And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel Screamed “F--- you, Aimee” to the night sky, as the blood was gushin’ But I can’t forget the way you made me heal And it wasn’t a fair fight, or a clean kill Each time that Aimee stomped across my gravе And then she wrote hеadlines In the local paper, laughing at each baby step I’d take And it was always the same searing pain But I prayed that one day, I could say All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’ And I couldn’t wait to show you it was real Screamed “F--- you, Aimee” to the night sky, as the blood was gushin’ But I can’t forget the way you made me heal Everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman But she used to say she wished that you were dead I pushed each boulder up the hill Your words are still just ringing in my head, ringing in my head I wrote a thousand songs that you find uncool I built a legacy which you can’t undo But when I count the scars, there’s a moment of truth That there wouldn’t be this, if there hadn’t been you And maybe you’ve reframed it And in your mind, you never beat my spirit black and blue I don’t think you’ve changed much And so I changed your name, and any real defining clues And one day, your kid comes home singin’ A song that only us two is gonna know is about you, ‘cause All that time you were throwin’ punches, it was all for nothin’ And our town, it looks so small, from way up here Screamed “Thank you, Aimee” to the night sky, and the stars are stunnin’ ‘Cause I can’t forget the way you made me heal Everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman But she used to say she wished that you were dead So I pushed each boulder up that hill Your words were still just ringin’ in my head, ringin’ in my head Thank you, Aimee Thank you, Aimee ‘Cassandra’ lyrics I was in my new house placing daydreams Patching up the crack along the wall I pass it and lose track of what I’m saying ‘Cause that’s where I was when I got the call When the first stone’s thrown, they’re screaming In the streets, there’s a raging riot When it’s “Burn the b----,“ they’re shrieking When the truth comes out, it’s quiet So, they killed Cassandra first ‘cause she feared the worst And tried to tell the town So, they filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say Do you believe me now? I was in my tower weaving nightmares Twisting all my smiles into snarls They say, “What doesn’t kill you makes you aware” What happens if it becomes who you are? So, they killed Cassandra first ‘cause she feared the worst And tried to tell the town So, they set my life in flames, I regret to say Do you believe me now? They knew, they knew, they knew the whole time That I was onto something The family, the pure greed, the Christian chorus line They all said nothing Blood’s thick but nothing like a payroll Bet they never spared a prayer for my soul You can mark my words that I said it first In a morning warning, no one heard I patched up the crack along the wall I pass it and lose track of what I’m saying ‘Cause that’s where I was when I lost it all So, they killed Cassandra first ‘cause she feared the worst And tried to tell the town So, they filled my cell with snakes, I regret to say Do you believe me now? I was onto something They all said nothing Blood’s thick but nothing like a payroll Bet they never spared a prayer for my soul You can mark my words that I said it first In a morning warning, no one heard No one heard, not a single word was heard When the first stone’s thrown, they’re screaming In the streets, there’s a raging riot When it’s “Burn the b----,” they’re shrieking When the truth comes out, it’s quiet It’s so quiet.
