New York Daily News

Swift end to Taylor, Katy tiff

- BY JAMI GANZ

Taylor Swift is shaking off her longstandi­ng beef with Katy Perry.

The singers hug it out in Swift’s video for “You Need to Calm Down,” which debuted Monday.

While the single signaled Swift’s latest contributi­on to LGBT rights, the video is anything but calm given its host of celebrity cameos. Swift’s notorious “frenemy” Perry (inset l.) appears, along with others including Ellen DeGeneres, Ryan Reynolds, RuPaul, Ciara and the men of “Queer Eye.”

In the video, 29-year-old Swift (inset r.), dressed as a pack of french fries, spots an orangehair­ed Perry, 34, in a crowd, with the latter dressed as a burger. The two slowly move toward each other. Swift hesitantly waves as a chaotic food fight explodes around them. The women hug, or try to, given the bulbous costumes, and Perry looks gleefully at Swift when the shot pans out in the shape of a heart.

The formerly feuding ladies have each since posted the shot of them hugging on Instagram, with Swift captioning the photo, “A happy meal,” and Perry writing, “This meal is BEEFfree #MeatFreeMo­nday.”

Shortly before Swift dropped the latest single from her upcoming album “Lover,” Perry took to Instagram to post a pile of chocolate chip cookies on a plate that read “Peace at Last,” marked by two peace signs. Perry tagged the location as “Let’s Be Friends” and captioned it, “Feels good @taylorswif­t,” signifying that their yearslong buzzy feud had finally been resolved.

Swift and Perry had appeared to be close until a trio of backup dancers abandoned Swift’s 2013-14 Red Tour to work on Perry’s Prismatic World Tour. Though Swift never officially confirmed Perry was the culprit, she told Rolling Stone that a female artist “basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me.”

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