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Taylor Swift And Kanye West A Phone Call ThatChanged The Better For The Worse

US pop sensation Taylor Swift was chosen the “Person of the Year” by Time magazine, which referred to the musical dynamo as the “hero of her own story.”

“The Eras Tour” movie, which debuted to a massive $92.8 million earlier this year, laid the stage for Taylor Swift’s 2023 “Cruel Summer” The singer now said in an interview with the site that it seemed like her phone conversation with musician Kanye West was “a career death.”

Kim Kardashian posted audio and footage of her ex-husband and Taylor Swift conversing over the phone in 2016, during which the pop singer appeared to support the lyrics the rapper had written against heTaylor Swift And Kanye West- A Phone Call Thatr.

Mr. West penned the line, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that b**** famous.” After the song’s debut, a representative for Ms. Swift denied allegations that the artist had ever approved of the lyrics.

The video had no references to West saying he “made her famous” or that he would refer to Swift as a “b****” in an uncut transcript of their exchange, which was revealed to the public in 2020.

Feels like a good day to remind everyone Kanye West bullied, a relatively unknown, 19 year old, Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV VMAs
Full Clip showing Tay's heartbreaking reaction to him… pic.twitter.com/iOlSZtNLfk

— Da🦦Otterside (@DaOtterside) December 7, 2023

The 33-year-old singer continued, stating that she felt as though the song was “a career death” because it seemed as though the lyrics were approved by her.

She thought she’d lost her career when Kim Kardashian illegally recorded the doomed phone call, edited it, and then released it to say to everyone that she was a liar. 

She went to a different location to escape the attention after the occurrence, which had a negative psychological impact on her. She said that she’d never been in a place psychologically like that before.

She relocated to another nation. It took her a year to move out of a rental home because she was so terrified to answer phone calls.

She stopped trusting people and turned away the majority of the individuals in her life. Time Magazine was told by the “Lover” singer, “I went down really, really hard.”

The rapper and his then-wife were accused by the “All Too Well” singer of “editing and manipulating” parts of the phone call that had surfaced in 2016, but that was before the full discussion between Ms. Swift and Mr. West went viral online in March 2020.

The singer stated,  “Instead 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 edited and manipulated to frame me and put me, my family, and fans through hell for four years)…SWIPE UP to see what matters.”

In response, the creator of SKIMS tweeted that Taylor Swift had chosen to reignite an old exchange – “@taylorswift13 has chosen to reignite an old exchange, – that at this point feels very self-serving given the suffering millions of real victims are facing right now.” She added that she did not edit the footage of the call. 

“Kanye has documented the making of all of his albums for his personal archive; however, she has never released any of it for public consumption and the call between the two of them would have remained private or would have gone in the trash had she not lied and forced me to defend him.” 

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Martina Birk

Update: 2024-09-04