Swift still feuding with Kim Kardashian.
In kicking off her “Reputation Stadium” tour Tuesday, Taylor Swift has let her fans know that she’s in the mood to address her public feuds with various celebrities.
On Tuesday, the pop megastar, 28, who performs Friday and Saturday nights at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, described having kissed and made up with Katy Perry after Perry sent her a literal olive branch in a package delivered to her dressing room.
But on Tuesday night, during her kickoff concert in Glendale, Arizona, Swift suggested that she still laments how things went so wrong with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. “A couple of years ago, someone called me a snake on social media and it caught on,” Swift said according to The Washington Post.
She didn’t name names but she was clearly referring to her feud with the controversial rapper and his reality TV star wife. The feud briefly took over the Internet in 2016, after Swift publicly condemned West for calling her a “b—” and taking credit for her fame in his song “Famous.” “Then a lot of people were calling me a lot of things on social media,” Swift told the crowd at her show.
The feud escalated when Kardashian uploaded a secretly recorded phone call between Swift and her husband that seemed to show that Swift knew about the lyrics in advance and even gave her approval.
Despite her cries of “character assassination,” she was branded a snake and faced an onslaught of snake emojis in posts about her, including those generated by Kardashian.
The snake imagery also was on full display at Swift’s concert Tuesday night. “You might be wondering why there are so many snakes everywhere, huh?” Swift said halfway through her show. That’s when she launched into her lament about being shamed on social media. “I wanted to send a message to you guys that if someone uses name-calling to bully you on social media, and even if a lot of people jump on board with it, that doesn’t have to defeat you. It can strengthen you instead,” Swift said.