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KATY VS. TAYLOR: NOBODY CARES
A CRY FOR AN END TO POP’S MOST BORING FEUD
Last week, we were graced with the latest in a seemingly endless succession of reminders that Katy Perry and Taylor Swift aren’t friends anymore. If you’ve forgotten already, I can’t blame you, but it happened when Katy told a fan that she’d happily collaborate with her nemesis — provided Swift apologize to her first. Ooh, burn!
Or rather: Uh ... burn? I’m not even sure anymore what this hypothetical (but totally important) apology would even be for. In the last two years, Taylor has released “Bad Blood,” told a journalist a weird story about running into Katy at awards shows and feeling like she was possibly being dissed, and accused her frenemy of trying to sabotage an entire tour (by allegedly stealing some of Taylor’s dancers). In response, Katy got to subtweeting, eventually more or less openly accusing Taylor of being a hypocrite in regard to girl power, squads, etc.
Which, like: Hey, nobody cares. Not since high school have I been forced to swallow such basic levels of “here’s why I’m mad at her".
Katy Perry and Taylor Swift are both seasoned vets — they’re grown-ass women. And yet here we are, clinging to the idea that this supposed “feud,” and the ever-present specter of its resolution via “apology,” isn't benefiting both of them.
How pressed you must be to even call this Katy vs Taylor and not Taylor vs Katy. Just reading the few lines it seems the writer is trying to sketch Katy as the one at fault/stiring it. Way to rewrite history
Musical feuds can be interesting! Some are vicious (Mariah versus J.Lo), others are legendary (Oasis versus Oasis), and there are a handful that are so sensational that they become kind of concerning the longer they progress (Drake versus Meek Mill). But this one is none of that. First, because it’s ultimately a fight about nothing, and second, because the ember of this supposedly deep and passionate rivalry only gets stoked when either artist needs something to do.