On March 21 (local time), the scandalous phone conversation between Kanye West – Taylor Swift surrounding the song “Famous” in 2016 was suddenly leaked online. So, after 4 years, the truth has been revealed, the girl who was labeled a “poisonous snake” by everyone has been vindicated.
Immediately, the clip from the documentary “Miss Americana” was widely shared by Swifties (Taylor fan community) across social networking sites. This segment will surely bring tears to viewers because Taylor Swift appeared with a dazed expression, completely devastated by the massive attack from netizens. And at that time, she was forced to hide for a year to calm her spirit.
Then when everything is revealed, let’s look back at the four years Taylor had to live under criticism, constantly being called a “poisonous snake”. It was thought that everything would sink her career since the cruel summer of 2016. But no, Taylor always knows what needs to be done and certainly doesn’t let anyone have a chance to defeat her!
2016: Hashtag #TaylorSwiftIsOverParty (Taylor Swift is over) trended everywhere, netizens dropped the “poisonous snake” icon in droves.
After Kanye West released the MV “Famous” there appeared an image of Taylor Swift in an almost nude position with the shocking lyrics: “I made that b*tch famous” (I made that b*tch famous ). ** that’s famous), Taylor Swift quickly objected vehemently to the above song’s content.
However, at that time, Kim Kardashian shocked the entertainment industry by posting a series of videos on Snapchat to prove that Kanye West had actually consulted Taylor through the obscene lyrics in “Famous”. “.
Immediately, the singer responded to Kim Kardashian’s video: “Where is the video of Kanye telling me he’s going to call me “b**” in that song? It’s really not exists because it never happened. You don’t get to control someone else’s reaction when they’re called a “bitch” in front of the whole world. I wanted to like that song. I wanted to believe it too Kanye when he said I would love that song. I wanted us to have a close friendship. Kanye promised to play that song for me, but he never did. Even though I wanted to support Kanye in that phone call but you can’t “pass” a song you’ve never heard of. Being accused of being a liar when I haven’t heard the full story or heard the song is reputation-destroying action. I really want to stay out of this story, a story that I have never asked to participate in, since 2009 (the incident where Taylor’s microphone was snatched by Kanye on the VMAs stage)” .
And then what does Taylor get? Support? No, at that time, Taylor’s explanation unintentionally turned her into a two-faced person in the eyes of the public. Since then, the voice of “Blank Space” had to face a series of days of being severely boycotted, many fans turned away and the nickname “king snake” accompanied by the icon of this sinister animal appeared everywhere. across social networking sites and can be considered the biggest “mass social bullying” in Hollywood.
And then in the end, Taylor decided to give it all up, didn’t explain anything further and “disappeared” from the entertainment industry to the joy of so many people…
2017: Returned proudly with “reputation”, the best-selling album of the year with images of poisonous snakes
In August 2017, Taylor suddenly released the MV “Look What You Made Me Do”, marking a surprising return when she decided to transform into the venomous snake image that everyone called her during a time of heavy drama. to spill. The work is meticulously done not only in terms of images and techniques, but also contains many hidden messages to slander the enemy. And of course, the couple Kanye West – Kim Kardashian is indispensable!
MV “Look What You Made Me Do” – Taylor Swift
This first shot also officially opened the terrible sweep of the “reputation” album, the most mysterious and terrifying return of Taylor’s career. The proof is that in just one week, “reputation” sold more than 1,216 million copies and became the best-selling album of 2017. Not only that, “reputation” was also evaluated by many critics. positive. Rolling Stone magazine commented on the album as follows: “A profound aspect of pop music, Taylor Swift has the greatest album of all time, she is trying something so new…”.
2018: “reputation Stadium Tour” established a series of great achievements, achieving the highest revenue in American history
In 2018, “Snake Queen” decided to temporarily stop releasing music products and work hard on tour. The journey of the “reputation Stadium Tour” starts in the US from May 8 to October 6, ends on November 21 in Japan and is always sold out.
According to Billboard magazine, Taylor Swift also officially broke the sales record in the US market since Billboard Boxscore began recording and synthesizing data on tours from 1990 to the present. Specifically, in the US alone, the “reputation Stadium Tour” has earned 266.1 million dollars with more than two million tickets sold. Thus, Taylor also broke her own record for the highest-grossing tour in the US set by a female artist.
And yet, the “reputation Stadium Tour” ended with 53 shows, helping Taylor bring in 345.7 million USD with an audience of up to 3,000,000, pushing the total revenue to 935 million USD. And also in 2018, the singer “Shake It Off” excellently received all 4/4 nominations at the American Music Awards, including the biggest award “Artist of the Year”.
2019: The album “Lover” was released, continuing to rock the world music industry and honored as “Artist of the Decade”
In early 2019, Taylor Swift received her first award of the year in the Grammy’s category of most influential person in pop music. After that, she continued to be named “Queen of Pop” by The Guardian. Next, Taylor Swift was also named in three other honorary lists, including Time magazine’s “Top 25 most influential celebrities in the world” and “World’s most admired artists”. ” by YouGov and topped the top 100 highest-earning stars of Forbes magazine.
In particular, this is also the year that marks Taylor’s return with her seventh studio album titled “Lover”. This era of music continues to bring Taylor to a series of brilliant successes and wins at many large and small award ceremonies. Among them, at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, the star born in 1989 not only took the spotlight but also increased his achievements in his music career by receiving 3 wins, including the most important award. Video of the Year” for MV “You Need To Calm Down”.
This has helped Taylor become the only artist to have won the “Video of the Year” award twice in the past decade. Previously, the huge blockbuster “Bad Blood” also helped the owner of the hit “Shake It Off” win this category for the first time at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards.
Coincidentally, 2019 is also the year that marks a decade since the day Kanye West “unreasonably” snatched Taylor’s mic right at the VMAs. At that time, when Taylor Swift was preparing to speak while receiving the “Best Female Video” award for the MV “You Belong With Me”, Kanye West suddenly ran up to the stage to grab it. mic, trophy and said disrespectful words towards Taylor Swift.
This is considered a huge shock for the singer “Mean” and that moment will never be forgotten in the memory of a girl not yet 20 years old. And now, exactly 10 years since that fateful day, the innocent female singer does not need to say a single sentence, she is ready to give the entire stage and the microphone to another man to help her share. Share meaningful things for life and the LGBT community.
Not only that, at the 2019 American Music Awards, Taylor Swift continued to receive 6 awards, including the most prestigious award “Artist of the Decade”. In addition, at the Women in Music event organized by Billboard, Taylor Swift was also honored as “Woman of the Decade”. This is enough to see Taylor’s extraordinary talent and bravery when working for 13 years in the music industry, right?
2020: The tables turned, #KanyeWestIsOverParty trended worldwide, netizens simultaneously stood up to defend Taylor Swift
After nearly 4 years of suffering Hollywood’s biggest bully, all the truth about the drama between Taylor and Kanye has come to light. Immediately, Swifties quickly demanded justice for their idol for being wrongly suspected for a long time.
The content of the recently leaked conversation shows a completely different perspective from the old story, that Taylor Swift herself clearly expressed her discomfort when Kanye mentioned the lyrics about her. Taylor has been clear about her dislike of being called a “b*tch” in her lyrics.
Besides, Taylor herself also said that she would think more and not make any decisions after Kanye West proposed. This is a polite answer from Taylor Swift. Completely contrary to Kanye West’s “script” in the past, Taylor Swift “turned face” after hearing and agreeing with the song “I made that b*tch famous” .
In just a few hours, the hashtag #KanyeWestIsOverParty (Kanye West is over) was pushed to the #1 trending position worldwide on Twitter, enough to know how great public interest in this issue is. In addition, hashtags similar to #TaylorToldTheTruth (Taylor told the truth) and #TaylorWasRight (Taylor was right) are also trending, expressing the fan community’s outrage at a hidden truth. covered for the past 4 years.
For many people, four years is not a very long time, but for Taylor it is a whole journey to prove her integrity and devote herself day and night to music. Perhaps when he was vindicated, Taylor did not gloat at all because the whole incident happened so harshly. And more than anyone else, fans just hope she always keeps the fire for music alive and brings true values like she has always done.