Swift captioned the video “Thank you Katy.” Looks like the bad blood might finally be over… May 2018: Perry doubles down on her various statements that she wants to end the feud with Taylor Swift by sending Swift a literal olive branch and a handwritten note ahead of Swift’s first concert for her Reputationtour, which Swift shared on her Instagram story on Tuesday, May 8. “Oh, you don’t have to be sorry, I love her as a songwriter as well.” March 2018: A contestant on American Idol apologizes before telling judge Katy Perry that his musical idol is Taylor Swift, going so far as to say: “I love Taylor Swift.” Perry responds by praising Taylor’s musical talent, which many interpret as shade. While Taylor stayed mum at the time, her song lyrics might just speak volumes on their own, with Taylor singing “here’s to you because forgiveness is a nice thing to do” before breaking into laughter and stating that she “can’t even say it with a straight face.”Īdditionally, Taylor released two zines to accompany the album, one of which revealed that the extras in the “Look What You Made Me Do” video during the paparazzi scene (where many Swifties felt that Taylor’s persona bore a striking similarity to Perry) were dancers from her 1989 tour, in what might be a sneaky wink at how it all began. This summer, Perry said that she was “ready to let go” of the wounds and “forgive” Swift. November 2017: Taylor Swift releases her long-anticipated album Reputation and while the bulk of the songs center around her love life, her song “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” includes a closing lyric that could reference Perry’s vocal address of their longtime association. There’s a lot of other things out there in the world that people need to be focused on, and I truly, like, God bless her on her journey. Like maybe I don’t agree with everything she does and she doesn’t agree with everything I do, but I just really truly want to come together in a place of love and forgiveness and understanding and compassion. And I think she’s a fantastic songwriter, and I think that, you know, if we, both her and I, can be representatives of strong women that come together despite their differences, I think the whole world is going to go like, ‘Yeah, well we can do this.’ I don’t know. You know what I’m saying? And I love her, and I want the best for her. There are bigger fish to fry, and there are real problems in the world. I think it’s actually like, I think it’s time. “I forgive her and I’m sorry for anything I ever did, and I hope the same from her. In the interview, Perry expresses a desire to forgive Swift and move on.
In case anyone had any doubt which “unnamed female artist” Perry believed Swift was referring to, Perry sends out a cryptic tweet - referring to Rachel McAdams’ bullying character in Mean Girls - the day after the article is published.įollowing the release of Witness, Perry hosts a 72 hour livestream, during which she does an interview with Arianna Huffington for her Thrive podcast. Despite this, Swift emphasizes that the feud with the artist she mentions is not “about a guy.”
Perry spent two years dating John Mayer, who previously dated Swift Mayer believed that Swift’s song “Dear John” was about him. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.”Īs is often the case in A-list circles, the pair also dated the same celebrity at different times. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational – you would not believe how much I hate conflict. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. “She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’ She did something so horrible. “For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not,” she says. From there, onlookers draw a straight line to Brownlie’s account of leaving the Red tour for Perry’s Prism tour. September 2014: In a Rolling Stone interview, Swift reveals that her song “Bad Blood,” off her upcoming album 1989, is about a female musical artist who she won’t name, who “tried to sabotage” her tour by hiring people on her staff. We weren’t really dancing in Taylor’s tour anyway, so I had got a little bored and I really wanted to do a promo tour.” “Obviously we were with Katy for two and a half years, she’s like family to us,” he said. Brownlie’s justification is that he was closer to Perry and that he wasn’t dancing much on Swift’s tour. According to Brownlie - who toured with Perry for her California Dreams world tour in 2011 and was a part of her Piece of Me documentary - he and two of Perry’s other former dancers left Swift’s Red tour to join Perry for her Prism tour.