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Taylor Swift brutally criticizes Kim Kardashian in rare comments during the Eras concert in London while the singer performs a diss track

Taylor Swift brutally criticizes Kim Kardashian in rare comments during the Eras concert in London while the singer performs a diss track

Taylor Swift took her feud with Kim Kardashian to the next level with some thinly veiled digs during a live performance of her Eras Tour in London.

The pop megastar made a surprising comment on stage, turning her diss track about 43-year-old Kim into a seemingly deliberate mashup.

Taylor Swift made it clear on Saturday that she sings about Kim Kardashian

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Taylor Swift made it clear on Saturday that she sings about Kim KardashianPhoto credit: Getty
She said at Wembley Stadium:

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She said at Wembley Stadium: “Every time someone talks shit, I work even harder.”Photo credit: X / Evie_rose_d
Taylor then performed a mashup of “ThanK you aIMee” (the capital letters spell Kim) and “Mean.”

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Taylor then performed a mashup of “ThanK you aIMee” (the capital letters spell Kim) and “Mean.”Photo credit: X / moonlithoax

Taylor, 34, performed her song “thanK you aIMee” on the Eras Tour in London on Saturday.

The hitmaker is currently embarking on a three-night residency at Wembley Stadium with support acts including Paramore.

“thanK you AIMee” comes from their latest LP, The Tortured Poets Department.

The song is famously about her long-standing feud with Kim – as the capital letters in the song title clearly spell “Kim.”

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Taylor combined the song into a surprising mashup – mixing it with her classic “Mean,” which seemed like a dig in itself.

Taylor also had something to say to the 80,000-strong audience before the performance.

“Every time someone talks shit, I work harder,” she explained with a smile.

“KIM FOUND CRYING”

“Kim Kardashian was found crying,” wrote one X-user when the concert clip made the rounds.

“The way she performed this and Mean as a combination and that’s why we love her,” wrote another.

Other fans think Taylor may have even ended the mashup by giving the middle finger.

“Call me crazy but I think when she bowed at the end she held up one finger,” wrote a third.

Taylor’s comment about the introduction of the mashup may have been a reference to Kim’s controversial and infamous statement about women.

In a 2022 Variety interview, the billionaire said, “I have the best advice for women in business: get off your damn ass and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days.”

Taylor’s final show in London is tomorrow night as her lucrative Eras tour continues.

BAD BLOOD

Kim and Taylor have been feuding for years, culminating in a phone conversation she and her ex-husband Kanye West recording with Taylor in 2016.

The Blank Space singer admitted in an interview on the cover of Time magazine this year that their fight felt like “the death of her career.”

“You have a completely staged lie in the form of an illegally recorded phone call that Kim Kardashian edited and then released to tell everyone that I’m a liar,” Taylor said.

“It took me to a place psychologically that I’d never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to answer phone calls.”

In June 2016, the rap star released the music video for his song “Famous,” in which Kanye lies naked in bed with other A-list celebrity lookalikes, including Taylor.

Taylor’s bitter dispute with Kanye and Kim explained

Taylor Swift has been in a fierce feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian for years.

  • 2009 – Kanye interrupted Taylor’s VMA win for Best Female Video onstage by saying, “I’m really happy for you and I’ll hear you out, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.”
  • 2009 – Later that month, Kanye admitted he regretted the action and Taylor confirmed he called to apologize.
  • 2010 – Taylor performed “Innocent,” a song rumored to be about Kanye, at the VMAs, singing, “It’s all right / Just wait it out / Your string of lights still shine for me / Who you are is not where you’ve been.”
  • 2013 – Kanye retracted his apology to the singer and stressed: “I have no regrets.”
  • 2015 – The former rivals reunited at the 2015 Grammy Awards and posed for photos together. Taylor later said she “likes him as a person.”
  • 2016 – Kanye first released his song “Famous” with the lyrics: “I feel like Taylor and I could still have sex. Why? I made that bitch famous.”
  • 2016 – After Taylor insisted she didn’t approve of the lyrics “I made that bitch famous,” Kim posted a video of her phone call with Kanye.
  • 2017 – Taylor apparently referenced the pair’s feud in her album “Reputation,” announcing the news with videos of a snake – a reference to the snake emojis she posted in her Instagram comments that suggested she was a liar – and appeared to diss Kanye in her song “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.”
  • 2018 – Taylor said Kim didn’t release the full recording, asking, “Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that bitch’ in his song? It doesn’t exist because it never happened. You don’t have control over a person’s emotional reaction when they’re called ‘that bitch’ in front of the whole world.”
  • 2019 – Kim insisted in a magazine interview that they were “over” their feud.
  • 2019 – Taylor claimed that the music video for Kanye’s Famous was “revenge porn” because it featured a fake naked sculpture of her.
  • 2020 – The entire phone call between Taylor and Kanye was leaked. There was no mention of her being called “that bitch.”
  • 2020 – Kim initially said the call revealed “nothing new,” but then backtracked, tweeting: “The only issue I had with the situation was Taylor lied through her press agent who said ‘Kanye never called to ask permission…’ They clearly spoke so I’m letting y’all see that. No one ever disputed that the word ‘bitch’ was used without her permission.”
  • 2023 – Taylor said in a Time interview that the feud with Kim and Kanye felt like “career death” and “dragged her down mentally.”

In the single, Kanye raps: “I feel like Taylor and I could still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous / I made that bitch famous.”

When the music video was released, Taylor claimed that although she knew the lyrics, she was unaware that she was being called an “ab***h,” although Kanye’s then-wife Kim claimed otherwise.

Kim then released a clip of a phone conversation between the Yeezy mogul and Taylor to “prove” that she knew the lyrics.

In the leaked phone call, it was clear that although Kanye had mentioned that he would release a song with her name, he did not explicitly reveal what the lyrics would ultimately be.

The Skims mogul later said in an interview with GQ: “She was totally OK with it. She suddenly wanted to pretend that wasn’t the case.”

All of this, of course, has its origins in the time when Kanye stormed the stage at the 2009 VMAs and Taylor was awarded Video of the Year.

Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian have been arguing for years

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Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian have been arguing for yearsPhoto credit: Hulu
The megastars' dispute began when Kim's ex stormed the stage at the 2009 VMAs

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The megastars’ dispute began when Kim’s ex stormed the stage at the 2009 VMAsPhoto credit: Getty
Things escalated when Kim recorded a phone call between Kanye and Taylor in 2016 (the three are seen here with Jay-Z)

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Things escalated when Kim recorded a phone call between Kanye and Taylor in 2016 (the three are seen here with Jay-Z)Photo credit: Getty – Contributor