Is Taylor Swift’s ‘thanK you aIMee’ about Kim Kardashian?

nme.com:

Taylor Swift‘s new track ‘thanK you aIMee’ is about Kim Kardashian.Swift released her 11th studio LP ‘The Tortured Poets Department‘ today (April 19) as well as surprise releasing an anthology version with an extra 15 songs. ‘thanK you aIMee’ is a part of the newly added tracks and has left fans believing that the song was aimed at the reality TV star who has had a history with the pop singer.For starters, The letters capitalised in the title spell out ‘Kim’, immediately connecting the song to the Kardashian. ‘thanK you aIMee’ sees Swift disscuss a seemingly fictional story of a feud between the singer and someone named Aimee from her hometown who was a bully and ended up being celebrated.Theories about the song’s meaning began appearing on social media and on the lyric analysis website Genius.

Lyrics such as: “All that time you were throwin’ punches, I was buildin’ somethin'” has led fans to believe that this was a reference to “Kardashian’s attempt to ruin Taylor’s career during the phone scandal backfired on her and boosted Taylor to an even higher level of fame,” (per Genius).The theory for that lyric comes from the feud between Kardashian and Swift in 2016 after the release of the reality TV star’s ex Husband – Kanye West‘s track ‘Famous’.