Taylor Swift plays alleged Kim Kardashian diss track at Eras concert in London

Taylor Swift never gives up on a good argument and rekindled her feud with Kim Kardashian during the London stop of her ongoing Eras tour.

Swift played the alleged Kardashian diss track “thanK you aIMee” from her eleventh studio album The “Tortured Poets” section live at Wembley Stadium for the first time this weekend.

“It really makes me think about how every time someone talks shit, I work even harder and get even tougher,” Swift introduced the song. “So it also makes me incredibly grateful for those people.”

Stylized with the not-so-subtle capital letters K, I, and M, “thanK you aIMee” tells the melodic story of a school bully, the titular Aimee, whom Swift thanks for helping her “build a legacy you can’t undo” and that “none of this would be here if it weren’t for you.”

Swift then mixed the newer song with “Mean” from 2010 Speak Nowaddressed to her early critics.

The “bad blood” between Kardashian and Swift dates back to the 2009 MTV VMAs, when Kardashian’s soon-to-be ex-husband Kanye West interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech, setting off a chain of events that have now been building for decades.

Kardashian got involved in 2016 following the release of West’s song “Famous,” which includes the lines: “To all my southside n—-s that know me best / I feel like Taylor and I could still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous (damn) / I made that bitch famous.”

Swift distanced herself from the song when it came out, but Kardashian claimed Swift had previously given her consent and leaked a recorded phone conversation and then a video of that phone conversation to prove her point. In the conversation, Swift can be heard saying, “When people ask me about it, I think it would be great if I could say, ‘He called me and told me before it came out… The joke’s on you guys. We’re fine.'”

Swift, however, insisted that she never heard the entire song and that West only told her about the line about sex between them.

“Of course I wanted to like the song. I wanted to believe Kanye when he told me I loved the song. I wanted us to have a friendly relationship,” Swift said at the time. “He promised to play me the song, but he never did. Even though I wanted to support Kanye on the phone, you can’t ‘approve’ of a song you haven’t heard. To be portrayed as a liar when I never got the whole story or played any part of the song is character assassination.”

Swift then responded with the 2017 album Call and specifically the lead single “Look What You Made Me Do.” Then, in 2020, an unedited video of the phone call between Swift and West was leaked online, prompting both Kardashian and Swift to reiterate their previous stances. Kardashian later claimed she had moved on and couldn’t understand why Swift hadn’t.

Swift explained why she couldn’t in her 2023 Time Person of the Year profile, in which she said that the aftermath of the phone affair felt like “career death.” She recorded two songs for The “Tortured Poets” section which fans thought was a reference to Kardashian, “Cassandra” and “thanK you aIMee,” which basically brings us all up to speed.