
Taylor Swift shouldn't be identified for being delicate—simply ask Jake (or John, or Joe, or…you get the thought). So when The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology dropped at 2 a.m. on April 19 with a whopping 15 further bonus tracks, together with “thanK you aIMee," Swifties immediately clocked those capitalized letters as a likely reference to Kim Kardashian, with whom Swift has had beef since 2016.
In the song, Swift sings about a high school bully, one whose “bronze, spray-tanned” statue stands in her residence city. Whereas there aren't any different express references to her explicit feud with Kardashian, the takeaway—that her expertise with the bully solely made her stronger—along with the title, all appear to substantiate the theories that “thanK you aIMee” is about Ok-I-M, not anybody named “Aimee.”
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The track's title might also allude to Britney Spears's 2008 track “If You Seek Amy,” one other pop anthem that's...not a few lady named Amy, however one thing else that is being spelled out.
In her 2023 Time person of the year cover story, Swift delved into higher element about her fall from grace after Kardashian leaked an edited minimize of Swift's telephone name with Kardashian's then-husband Kanye West, who was requested permission to namedrop Swift in his track “Famous.” Within the edit, Swift appeared to present her consent West; she later stated that she had not heard the lyric in full, wherein Kanye refers to her as a “bitch” that he “made famous."
“That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before,” she stated of the fallout from the leaked recording. “I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year.”
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