The track includes the lines “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that bitch famous”, in reference to Kanye interrupting her acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs in 2009.
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In the wave of criticism that followed, West insisted that Swift had given the line her blessing. You didn’t know who I was before that, that’s fine. Swift’s friend Selena Gomez rhetorically asked in a tweet why people can’t use their voice for something that matters before adding, “Truth is last thing we need right now is hate, in any form”. On Monday afternoon, the celebrity bestie posted a flurry of scathing tweets, attacking Kanye for his lyrics and “praying” for his and Kim’s daughter, North.
It isn’t clear either where Taylor answered the call from either – she now resides in NY, which has a one-party consent law – but in her statement after the phone call leak, she said that it was recorded without her knowledge.
“Like you honestly didn’t know who I was before that”.
Swift herself is known for frequently referencing events and people from her life in her songs.
They claim the footage proves Taylor had approved a controversial lyric about her. By choosing to release the video through her Snapchat account (with expansive social-media support from updates to her emoji app, Kimoji, in celebration of National Snake Day), Kardashian bypassed all major news sources, effectively becoming her own media channel. The two are discussing the song, with Yeezy having called the singer in order to give her a heads up that he raps about the two possibly having sex sometime in the future. West came onstage as Swift was accepting her award and said, “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!”. This greatly displeased West’s wife, Kim Kardashian.
California, where the Kardashian-West clan lives and, TMZ reports, from where West called, is one of a handful of states that goes further than the federal wiretapping standard, which only requires one half of the conversation to approve of a recording.
Seemingly everyone had an opinion about Kardashian’s move Sunday night to post videos of West speaking on the phone with Swift about his mention of her in the song “Famous” – a video to which Kardashian had previously alluded during an interview. In fact, it looks like they’re ready to keep up the fight for Taylor’s good name – at least on Twitter – even if most of the platform’s users have moved on to other stories.
Chloe Grace Moretz defended Taylor by pointing out how stupid the fight was.
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Her legal team are convinced Kanye and Kim have violated California penal code 632 that makes it illegal to record calls without permission from both sides.
