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Taylor Swift seems to have dropped two NEW SONGS about Kim Kardashianđ±
Taylor Swift surprised all her fans Friday morning when just two hours after the initial midnight release of her new album, âThe Tortured Poets Department,â she released a secret second half of the album with 15 additional songs.
Swift released a total of 31 songs on Friday, naming the deluxe version of the album âThe Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.â
Two of those songs seen to be about Kim Kardashian.
In classic Swift fashion, she got creative with her capital letters on the track âthanK you aIMee,â a song about a mean schoolgirl. Or is it? The âKIMâ most often associated with Swift is Kardashian, who famously referred to Swift with a snake emoji.
Speaking of which, there are several mentions of snakes on âCassandra.â
Swift referenced her feud with Kardashian in her Time person of the year interview.
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âYou 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,â she said. âThat took me down psychologically to a place Iâve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didnât 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 didnât trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.â
In 2016, Kardashianâs then-husband Kanye West released the song âFamous,â which featured a lyric about him being the reason behind Swiftâs fame. Swift denied that she approved of the lyric at the time, and Kardashian released an edited, recorded phone call between the artists on social media that led the public to believe the opposite.
In Greek Mythology, Cassandra is the goddess granted the power of prophecy by the god Apollo. Apollo gave her the power because he was enamored by her and â after she rejected him â he sabotaged the power with a curse that no one would believe her predictions.
In âthanK you aIMee,â Swift acknowledges that conflict âmade her heal.â
Another lyric in that song indicates the names on the track canât be trusted: âI changed your name and any real defining clues. And one day, your kid comes home singinâ a song that only us two is gonna know is about you.â
The album was released during Swiftâs two-month break from her massively popular and economically fruitful Eras Tour. âTortured Poetsâ serves as an exclamation point to the behemoth success the billionaire has seen over the past year since the three-plus-hour show launched in Glendale, Arizona. Swift will return to the stage in Paris, France, on May 9. Fans anticipate that her newest era will be added to the show.