A pop‑poetry attack on a Kardashian

Taylor Swift's new album "The Tortured Poets Department" became the world's loudest event on 18 April. The day before, Spotify announced that the record had broken the record for the album with the most pre-release registrations on the platform. At 1 am Greenwich Time, Swift unexpectedly announced the album's second half with 15 additional songs. "The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album" - she wrote on Instagram. "’I'd written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology."

The song "thanK you aIMee" was found among the tracks from the additional part. Most listeners interpreted it as Swift's diss toward Kim Kardashian. The capital letters in the title spell out "Kim." "thanK you aIMee" features Aimee as a school bully character whose "spray-tanned monument" stands in the protagonist's hometown.

In the chorus, Taylor Swift sings: "All that time you were throwin' punches, I was buildin' somethin/ And I can't forgive the way you made me feel/ Screamed, "Fuck you, Aimee" to the night sky as the blood was gushin'/ But I can't forget the way you made me heal"

In 2016, Kardashian's then-husband, Kanye West, included in his track "Famous" the lyrics: "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/ Why? I made that bitch famous (Goddamn)/ I made that bitch famous".

In response, Kim Kardashian published a video from an alleged phone conversation between West and Swift, in which they discussed the "Famous" lyrics on Snapchat. The singer had no idea she was being recorded, and the material, as it turned out later, was edited. This scandal caused Taylor Swift to take a break from public life for some time.

In "thanK you aIMee," Swift ruthlessly settles scores with someone who wronged her. She sings, "Everyone knows that my mother is a saintly woman/ But she used to say she wished that you were dead."