“Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me, “that bitch” in his song?”
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“You don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to being called “that bitch” to the entire world”.
Taylor also implied in her Instagram caption that she didn’t know that her and Kanye’s conversation was being recorded. She described the release of the Snapchat video as a “character assassination”.
TS: I’m like this close to over exposure.
In the recorded conversation, West is reading out his lyrics and Swift tells him she appreciates that he told her about it.
Taylor: … that I can make these things happen and I have the ideas to do it and I create these things and concepts.
Her rep released this statement at the time: “Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single Famous on her Twitter account”.
Kanye: What I give a f– about is just you as a person, and as a friend.
“Of course I wanted to like the song”.
West has long defended himself, saying he had an “hour-long convo” with Swift ahead of the song’s release where he told her about the lyric.
West famously took the mic from Swift to proclaim Beyonce should have won best video at the 2009 MTV Awards. “Kanye West never told Taylor he was going to use the term ‘that b*tch” in referencing her.
“[Swift] declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message”.
West returns, “I just had a responsibility to you as a friend, you know, and thanks for being so cool about it”.
She has since said that while the phone call may have happened, she could not “approve” the song just because it was sang to her. I don’t wanna do rap that makes people feel bad.
Stars jumped onto the social media battleground on both sides.
She then went on to claim that West promised to play her the whole song but never did, and that she wanted to like the song but could not approve it as she hadn’t heard it.
Taylor: …things without like even asking or seeing if I’d be OK with it.
Back in February, Swift’s publicist Tree Paine issued a statement vehemently denying that Swift gave approval to the song.
THE Taylor Swift v Kim Kardashian/Kanye feud has exploded.
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This would conflict with what Swift had originally said through a spokesman after “The Life of Pablo”, Kanye’s new album, was released. “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one I never asked to be a part of, since 2009”.
