Celeb News: How Katy Perry Checkmated Taylor Swift

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How Katy Perry Checkmated Taylor Swift

Katy Perry was the first pop star on the Hillary train, and if Clinton gets elected, she’ll have the most powerful woman in the world in her corner. Looks like it’s gonna be a looong four years for her nemesis.

Taylor Swift released her video for “Bad Blood,” featuring a portion of that Squad aggressively green-screened into an intimidating girl gang. The song was rumored to be about Katy Perry. That August, Swift brought half of the cast of “Bad Blood” to the MTV Video Music Awards. Katy Perry didn’t even attend them. It was the pop star equivalent of inviting every girl in school to a slumber party except for one girl she was intent on putting down. It was a mean girl tour de force. How could Perry possibly counterpunch?

By getting political, that’s how. Taylor Swift has been adamantly apolitical for the majority of her career. In 2012, when Katy Perry was doing a little bit of light campaign lifting for President Obama’s reelection bid, Swift told Time that she didn’t feel like she was in any position to tell young people who to vote for (although she eventually admitted that she was supporting Obama). Persistent but unsubstantiated rumors swirl that when Swift had a MySpace page back in social media’s stone age, she wrote “Republicans do it better.” But, apart from that peep in 2012, in every subsequent election cycle, she’s been silent.

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All Swift can do now is sit back and wait for election returns to roll in. From there, she can watch Katy Perry, early-adopting pop star ally of the probably first female president in American history, perform at the historic inaugural ball. She can read women’s magazine puff pieces about Perry and Madame President’s blossoming friendship, which started as a political alliance but became real. She can pose for star-spangled Instagram shoots until she’s red, white, and blue in the face. But she won’t be With Her.

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All Swift can do now is sit back and wait for election returns to roll in. From there, she can watch Katy Perry, early-adopting pop star ally of the probably first female president in American history, perform at the historic inaugural ball. She can read women’s magazine puff pieces about Perry and Madame President’s blossoming friendship, which started as a political alliance but became real. She can pose for star-spangled Instagram shoots until she’s red, white, and blue in the face. But she won’t be With Her.

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She can pose for star-spangled Instagram shoots until she’s red, white, and blue in the face. But she won’t be With Her.

How could Perry possibly counterpunch? by getting political, that’s how.

#imwithher

Goaty

Wow, how severe

How will Taylor deal with the embarrassment

Dark Horse

Can't_M!ss_This

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Katy Perry was the first pop star on the Hillary train, and if Clinton gets elected, she’ll have the most powerful woman in the world in her corner. Looks like it’s gonna be a looong four years for her nemesis.

Valentine

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Republicans do it better

That left me shook and disappointed

LoKoPaNdA

In before "she doesn't have to speak politicz

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For a self-proclaimed feminist, Swift's silence on Donald's actions has been nothing short of incongruent with what she preaches. Also:

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As Donald Trump closed in on the GOP nomination, some of his white supremacist fans held Swift up as an “Aryan goddess” in online forums, because she looks the part. Swift hasn’t ever said anything of a white supremacist persuasion nor has she disavowed their adoration, sticking to her apolitical agenda.

by not saying anything at all she's giving these people an outlet to use her image for that type of stuff

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Kamren

Seems like legends are associated with presidencies. Kanye with Bush, Beyoncé with Obama, and now Hillary with Katy

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Originally posted by LoKoPaNdA

In before "she doesn't have to speak politicz

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For a self-proclaimed feminist, Swift's silence on Donald's actions has been nothing short of incongruent with what she preaches. Also:

by not saying anything at all she's giving these people an outlet to use her image for that type of stuff

besides isn't it crucial for self proclaimed feminist to speak up this election time when someone like donald trump who's against everything feminism stands for is running to be the president? really disappointing to see her be so mum about these things.

lightstheyblindme

this is so petty and dumb

Hunter_13

Cannot believe how much people care about who Taylor's voting for. The POWER.

mdddb4

Taylor will be fine lol

IamCY

It's not that serious

Dekkan

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She can pose for star-spangled Instagram shoots until she’s red, white, and blue in the face. But she won’t be With Her.

♚ PRiNCE HiGH ♚

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Originally posted by Hunter_13

Cannot believe how much people care about who Taylor's voting for. The POWER.

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This is incredibly petty and embarrassing.

Glad to see how unbothered Queen Taylor is and instead just keeps slaying them 100k audience stadiums

Ramos

This fan-fiction

holocene

d, yeah Taylor must be terrified