{"id":805617,"date":"2020-03-24T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=971734"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:55:49","slug":"kim-theres-people-that-are-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/kim-theres-people-that-are-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim, There\u2019s People That Are Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the weekend, a person with a desire to stir up chaos in the middle of a pandemic deemed it an opportune time to rehash one of the most annoyingly lengthy feuds in celebrity history. To do that, this unknown party leaked what appears to be the full, infamous phone call between Kanye West and Taylor Swift<\/a> about his song \u201cFamous.\u201d That person is now my nemesis.<\/p>\n

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Basically, the whole phone call leaked, revealing Taylor Swift never consented to being called \u201cthat bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

She never lied or was a \u201csnake.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was recorded illegally and manipulated by Kanye West and everyone owes her an apology.pic.twitter.com\/nTZXrJo7yS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ryan Schocket (@RyanSchocket) March 21, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some context: \u201cFamous\u201d was the original comeback of this decade-plus beef<\/a>. Swift and West\u2019s first encounter was at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when West interrupted Swift\u2019s acceptance speech for Female Video of the Year and claimed that Beyonc\u00e9 (who won Video of the Year later that night for \u201cSingle Ladies\u201d) should have taken home the moonman instead. Tensions lingered between the two with thinly veiled references to each other in their music \u2013 Swift sang \u201c32, and still growing up now\u201d a year later on \u201cInnocent,\u201d while West gave a \u201ctoast to the douchebags\u201d on \u201cRunaway\u201d \u2013 and in interviews. In 2015, the duo publicly buried the hatchet at the VMAs when Swift presented West with his Video Vanguard Award.<\/p>\n

Things were fine \u2013 dare we say peaceful \u2013 until West released The Life of Pablo<\/i> in early 2016. On the song \u201cFamous,\u201d West rapped, \u201cI feel like me and Taylor might still have sex\/Why? I made that bitch famous\/Goddamn, I made that bitch famous.\u201d West claimed he had asked for permission from Swift. Swift, via a statement from her publicist Tree Paine, claimed that she had not been made aware of the line \u201cI made that bitch famous.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Later that year, West\u2019s wife Kim Kardashian leaked footage of the phone call on Snapchat<\/a> where West tells her about the \u201cI feel like me and Taylor might still have sex\u201d line. Cue a series of snake emojis on Swift\u2019s Instagram and Twitter and the entire Reputation<\/em> era a year later.<\/p>\n

The case of Kimye vs. Swift vs. The Very Tired Public has still been buzzing for some time: When Swift did interviews to promote her latest album Lover<\/em> last year<\/a>, she maintained her stance that she had never heard the song in full and that the line where he calls her a \u201cbitch\u201d and takes credit for her career was withheld.<\/p>\n

Still, here we are, nearly 11 years after this all began, being forced into some of the most poorly timed drama a person could imagine. The video that had been leaked last weekend proves favorable towards Swift: If it is, in fact, the whole call, West does not play the song in full and never mentions the line she had been angry about for years.<\/p>\n

Besides \u201cliking\u201d some Tumblr posts about the newly leaked footage, Swift stayed quiet on the matter until Monday afternoon. \u201cInstead of answering those who are asking how I feel about the video footage that leaked, proving that I was telling the truth the whole time about *that call* (you know, the one that was illegally recorded, that somebody<\/em> edited and manipulated in order to frame me and put me, my family, and fans through hell for 4 years)\u2026SWIPE UP to see what really matters,\u201d the Grammy winner wrote on a text-only Instagram Story slide. The link in the Instagram Story re-directed her followers to the World Health Organization\u2019s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund<\/a>. In the next post on her Story, she encouraged people to join her in donating to the fund.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udcf2 IG | Taylor via Instagram story https:\/\/t.co\/PvHi3Fn469<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/AoVCVsbmfQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) March 23, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Later that evening, Kardashian jumped in \u2014 because we were all absolutely thirsting for more content about this \u2014 and claimed that Swift had re-ignited the feud<\/a> and Kardashian subsequently needed to defend herself and her husband. She also expressed annoyance at Swift bringing it up while millions of \u201creal victims\u201d face the looming threat of the coronavirus<\/a> \u2014 a fitting entry in the \u201cWho Cares More?\u201d Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be clear, the only issue I ever had around the situation was that Taylor lied through her publicist who stated that \u2018Kanye never called to ask for permission\u2026,’\u201d Kardashian wrote in her tweetstorm, referring to Paine. \u201cThey clearly spoke so I let you all see that. Nobody ever denied the word \u2018bitch\u2019 was used without her permission.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.@taylorswift13<\/a> has chosen to reignite an old exchange \u2013 that at this point in time feels very self-serving given the suffering millions of real victims are facing right now.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kim Kardashian<\/a> West (@KimKardashian) March 24, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She continued by defending the claim that she did not edit the footage for Snapchat and that West has every right to continue filming his album-recording process, something he has done since The College Dropout<\/em>. She ended her statement with \u201cnobody cares,\u201d the most easily fact-checked (and true) sentence out of everything we have gotten this past week.<\/p>\n

Paine jumped into the ring with her full response to \u201cFamous\u201d from 2016 (which Rolling Stone<\/em> can confirm was quoted in our coverage during the 2016 events).<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m Taylor\u2019s publicist and this is my UNEDITED original statement. Btw, when you take parts out, that\u2019s editing. <\/p>\n

P.S. who did you guys piss off to leak that video? \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 https:\/\/t.co\/AtMGUp3t24<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/EjGDwAdL6O<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Tree Paine (@treepaine) March 24, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What does this all mean? Absolutely nothing. There could not have been a worse time for this to resurface: we are all literally trapped in our homes (Did I fail to mention the pandemic? There\u2019s a pandemic!) with no current work-home separation. That is, of course, if you were actually fortunate enough to keep your job due to everything shutting down and the economy crumbling. We\u2019re tired! No one needed to respond! As Kourtney Kardashian once screamed at a frantic Kim who was looking for a lost earring in the ocean: \u201cKim, there\u2019s people that are dying<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can we restart? Can we leave it at the many angry response bops we have gotten and move on? Please, I beg of everyone involved, make it stop.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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