With the release of what fans are calling the “ultimate f**k you,” an apparent “diss track” off her new album The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift has humiliated Kim Kardashian by rekindling their dispute.
After releasing the mạch awaited album at midnight ET on Friday, 34-year-old Taylor shocked everyone by announcing a “second instalment” called The Anthology that would have almost twice as many songs as initially anticipated.
One song from the second release, called thanK you aIMee, has fans thinking that it’s about Kim because the letters K, I, and M are capitalized in the title.
The 43-year-old creator of SKIMS, Kim, feels the song is a direct jab at her, too, according to insiders who say she feels trapped and powerless to speak up for fear of being destroyed by Taylor’s “army” of devoted fans.
Taylor Swift appears to have reignited her explosive feud with Kim Kardashian by releasing a diss track – thanK you aIMee – aimed at the reality star
Kim, 43, is said to feel ‘humiliated’ by the track but fears she cannot speak out as she could be ‘destroyed’ by Taylor’s fanbase
Taylor’s fans have been spamming Kim’s Instagram posts with the song title and lyrics which appear to reference the reality star’s children
‘Taylor has humiliated Kim, and she knows that there is nothing she can do about it,’ a source told DailyMail.com exclusively. ‘Kim got what she feared was coming to her eventually, and is now backed in a corner because she knows Taylor’s army will destroy her if she says anything.
‘She is going to stay silent and hopes it will go away – but her friends know that it has only just started.’
The source continued: ‘Fans are already spamming her Instagram posts with “thanK you aIMee.” The most malicious part of all of this is the song title.
‘Taylor has done a lot of diss tracks but she has never named anyone that her songs are written for.
‘There can be no other interpretation. It is spelled out and will last forever.’
The insider said Kim is ‘aware of the pain’ she caused Taylor and that she has ‘tried hard to make amends in recent years,’ adding: ‘But she never did the one thing that she really needed to all along – simply apologize.’
Her track thanK you aIMee centers on Taylor’s apparent dislike for a mean school girl she refers to as ‘Aimee’ – who fans believe is actually Kim as Taylor confirms she changed the name of the woman in question.
In one line she sings: ‘There’s a bronze spray-tanned statue of you and a plaque underneath it/That threatens to push me down the stairs, at our school.’
Taylor sings in one line: ‘There’s a bronze spray-tanned statue of you and a plaque underneath it/That threatens to push me down the stairs, at our school’ (pictured with Kim in 2015)
Taylor and Kim’s ongoing feud started over a dispute between Taylor and Kim’s ex husband Kanye West
Fans have also suggested a second song, Cassandra, from the album could be another subtle jab at Kim, owing to multiple references to ‘snakes’
‘All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin’ / And I can’t forgive the way you made me feel / Screamed ‘F**k you, Aimee’ to the night sky, as the blood was gushin’ / But I can’t forget the way you made me heal.’
She goes on to add: ‘And it wasn’t a fair fight, or a clean kill / Each time that Aimee stomped across my gravе / And then she wrote hеadlines/ In the local paper, laughing at each baby step I’d take.’
She also seems to references Kim’s 10-year-old daughter North West dancing to her 2014 single Shake It Off on TikTok back in January, finding it ironic as the ‘song is about you.’
She sings: ‘And so I changed your name, and any real defining clues/And one day, your kid comes home singin’ a song that only us two is gonna know is about you.’
Sharing their thoughts on social media platform X, one fan described the song as ‘The ultimate f**k you,’ while another shocked listener said: ‘OMFG thanK you aIMee is about Kim Kardashian. This album is SO unhinged.’
Others are relentlessly spamming the comment sections on her Instagram and TikTok accounts with ‘thanK you aIMee’ and snake emojis.
Fans have also suggested a second song, Cassandra, could be another subtle jab at Kim, owing to multiple references to ‘snakes.’
Many believe the title character, Cassandra, is Taylor, while references to ‘the call’ are meant to allude to a phone call between the singer and Kanye, which Kim secretly recorded and posted online.
Taylor also seems to reference Kim’s daughter North, 10, dancing to Shake It Off on TikTok as she writes: ‘Your kid comes home singin’ a song that only us two is gonna know is about you’
The snake emoji has played a major role in the ongoing feud between Taylor and Kim which started over a dispute between Taylor and Kim’s ex husband Kanye West.
The rapper famously stormed the stage at the 2009 VMAs when she won the prize for Best Female Video, telling the audience: ‘Yo, Taylor, I’m really happy for you. I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.’
After tying the knot with Kanye in 2014, Kim was at his side the following year when Taylor presented him with the lifetime achievement prize at the VMAs.
The pair appeared to have brought an end to their row – but in an interview with Rolling Stone Taylor noted that this was far from the case.
‘I’m standing in the audience with my arm around his wife, and this chill ran through my body,’ she recalled.
Taylor’s exes Joe Alwyn (left) and Matty Healy (right) also found themselves at the center of furious speculation over supposed digs the singer made at both of them in her songs.