Katy Perry on the conflict between two performers. Taylor Swift and Katy Perry make up
10.05.2018, 18:50
Taylor Swift and Katy Perry make up
Popular singers Taylor Swift and Katy Perry stopped communicating back in 2013. However, now fans are happy that their idols were able to find mutual language and forget old grievances.
Katy Perry finally took the first step and invited Taylor Swift to renew an old friendship. Perry sent to the dressing room ex-girlfriend olive branch, which is a symbol of the restoration of the world.
Swift shared a video on her Instagram page in which the package and some part of the note are clearly visible. The message says: “I thought for a long time about the misunderstanding and insults between us...”. Swift captioned the video, "Thank you, Katy," and said the gesture meant a lot to her.
Let us recall that in the fall of 2014 Taylor presented new album 1989, and one of the songs in it was called Bad Blood. In an interview, Swift admitted that this song is about another singer with whom she used to be friends.
“For many years I couldn’t understand whether we were friends or what. She could come up after some award, say something and leave, and I couldn’t understand whether we were friends at all or whether she had just treated me as rudely as anyone in life?" Swift shared.
Taylor said that her ex-girlfriend tried to disrupt her concert tour by luring several people from her team to her side. Swift did not name this former friend. However, Perry herself did this, hinting that the song was about her.
Taylor Swift and Katy Perry make up
Later, Perry did say that she really had a fight with Swift, but she did not consider herself guilty of it. Dancer Lockhart Brownlay, who worked with both singers, clarified this situation. According to him, Swift hired three dancers who had worked with Katy Perry for her 2011 tour. Perry had no concerts at the time. Already during Swift's tour, Perry's representatives contacted the dancers and asked if they would agree to work on the singer's new show. They agreed even though Swift's tour was not over yet. According to the dancer, he was practically not involved in Swift's show, so he decided to return to Perry.
Illustration copyright Getty Images Image caption Katy Perry (left) and Taylor Swift
Famous singers Katy Perry and Taylor Swift announced their reconciliation. As a sign of friendship, Perry sent Swift an olive branch - a symbol of peace. The once inseparable friends have been in conflict since 2014; one of Taylor Swift's angriest songs is dedicated to this feud. The BBC Russian service tells how it ended main conflict V modern pop music.
Friendship
Both Katy Perry and Taylor Swift were in their early 20s when they became international celebrities. In the late 2000s, Perry conquered the pop charts with the song I Kissed A Girl and strengthened her status as a young pop star, while Swift, at the same time, was the main country singer in the world and was preparing to move into the world of pop music.
At numerous social parties, Katie and Taylor constantly appeared together, the tabloids called them best friends. The singers repeatedly supported each other, Perry confessed her love for both Swift’s work and herself, they discussed in in social networks cats and shared their impressions of joint parties. The girls performed together, Perry even offered to record joint song, but this never happened.
Even the relationship couldn’t ruin the girls’ friendship. In 2012, Perry began dating guitarist John Mayor, who a couple of years earlier had gone out with Taylor Swift, but her friend was not at all embarrassed by this, and they continued to communicate as before.
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Feud
The fact that Taylor Swift and Katy Perry had some kind of conflict became known only in the fall of 2014, when Swift released her breakthrough album 1989. One of best songs from the album, she is the most angry and aggressive, called Bad Blood - enmity, or quarrel translated from English.
Reconciliation
Katy Perry was the first to back down. Since 2016, she has been on Twitter several times, but on some TV show she said that she was ready to record with her ex-friend, and had nothing against her at all.
Taylor didn't seem to hear. On June 9, 2017, on the day of the release of Perry's new album Witness, Swift returned her album 1989 to streaming services. The news of this almost eclipsed reports about the release of Perry's album - and only gave rise to new rumors about the mutual dislike of the singers. There were also hints of conflict in songs with last album Taylor Reputation, and Perry continued to say that she respects Taylor as a songwriter.
The singers reconciled only now, after Katie sent a parcel with a real olive branch and a letter to Taylor’s dressing room that begins with the words “Dear old friend"Taylor said the package and letter meant a lot to her - and it could be seen as the end of pop music's biggest feud. It came right before her first world tour show.
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Cold War
Conflict between American pop singers Katy Perry and Taylor Swift's secret rivalry began in 2011 after Katy, in the midst of Taylor's world tour, lured three of her dancers into her ballet, putting Swift in a difficult position.
Swift did not remain in debt by releasing the Bad Blood video, in which a team of warriors fights the villainess Arsine. The latter was played by Selena Gomez in the mini-blockbuster, but everyone understood that Taylor meant Katy.
The “slaps” between the two ladies did not end there; the girls exchanged barbs, offensive comets and shared mutual friends, jealously following the boycott.
Bury the hatchet or the right words
Katie took the first step towards the enemy, when no one was expecting it. On Saturday at live Thrive Global Podcast's conversation with TV host Arianna Huffington, 32-year-old Perry said without any subtext:
“I forgive, I forgive, I forgive her and in return I ask her forgiveness for everything that I have ever done. I hope for the same from her. I think it's time for us to make peace and forget about the past. There are much bigger problems in the world. Do you understand what I mean? I love her and wish her the best. I think she is a very talented songwriter who writes amazing songs. She and I both belong to the category strong in spirit women who do similar things despite their differences. I think the world will support us. I may not like some of the things she does, and she may not agree with some of the things I do, but I want to meet her at a point of forgiveness and love, compassion and understanding."
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As it turned out, Katy Perry lured the dancers Taylor Swift into her team in the midst of her tour. After the completion of the world tour of California Dreams in 2011, three dancers Cathy-Lockhart Brownlee, Scott Mairick and Leah Adler, were selected and joined the team Taylor, who was preparing for the tour in support of the album Red. Later, in an interview, Brownlee admitted that in the midst of the tour, Cathy's managers again contacted the trio to invite them to work on the show for the Prism album. At the same time, the dancers had to leave the Taylor tour before it was completed. All three immediately agreed. According to Brownlee, his choice was influenced by the fact that working with Katie was more fun.
And in 2014, Taylor Sweet told Rolling Stone magazine that her song Bad Blood was about a celebrity whose name she did not mention, but we know that it"s all about Perry.
But it seems that the seven-year war has come to an end! In her social networks, 28-year-old singer Taylor Swift shared a video that showed a conciliatory message from 33-year-old Katy Perry with a toy, a letter and an olive branch.
By the way, the video was shot in the dressing room singer a few hours before the start of her world tour "Reputation".
The message from Cathy begins with the words "Hello, old friend", and you can also sort out the first lines in which Perry says she thought a lot about the confusion in their relationship with Swift, wants to "cleanse everything" and asks for forgiveness. "I"m very sorry for what happened," she wrote in her message. "Thank you very much, Cathy," Taylor replied to Instagram Stories.
“The feud between Katy Perry and Taylor Swift is finally over! This is a great day in the history of the planet!” wrote one of the singers’ fans on Twitter. Similar happy messages flooded social media.
True, it turned out that Katy Perry already had time to take offense at Taylor, because she flaunted her apology. A source from the environment shared with The Sun: "Cathy did not expect Taylor to put out the letter itself. It looks like Katie was to blame for their quarrel." We hope that this time the misunderstanding will not last for a long time!
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Swift posted a video of the package in Instagram stories. Attached to the olive branch was a note on which you can make out the words: “I have thought for a long time about the misunderstandings and insults between us.” Swift titled the video "Thank you Katy" and said the gesture meant a lot to her.
From love to hate
24-year-old Katy Perry became popular in 2008 after recording the song "I Kissed a Girl." At that time, 19-year-old Taylor Swift was already the queen of country music, and her songs topped the world charts. In 2009, she won four Grammys for her second album, Fearless. The girls became friends and appeared together at various events. There were even rumors about recording a joint song.
In the fall of 2014, Swift released the album 1989, one of the tracks in which was called Bad Blood. In an interview, Swift said that the song was about another singer with whom she used to be friends.
For many years I could not understand whether we were friends or what. She could come up after some award, say something and leave, and I couldn’t understand, are we friends at all or did she just treat me as rudely as anyone in my life?, Swift said.
According to Taylor, a former friend tried to disrupt her concert tour by luring several people from her team to her side. Swift did not name this former friend. But Perry herself did it, hinting that the song was about her.
Later, Perry admitted that she really had a fight with Swift, but did not consider herself guilty of it. The situation was clarified a little by dancer Lockhart Brownlay, who worked with both artists. According to him, Swift hired three dancers who had worked with Katy Perry for her 2011 tour. Perry had no concerts at the time. Already during Swift's tour, Perry's representatives contacted the dancers and asked if they would agree to work on the singer's new show. They agreed even though Swift's tour was not over yet. According to the dancer, he was practically not involved in Swift's show, so he decided to return to Perry.
On June 9, 2017, Perry released her new album, Witness. And Swift, a couple of days later, returned her album 1989 to streaming services, thereby eclipsing the release of her former friend’s new album.
IN Lately Perry said she wouldn't mind making peace with Swift, and finally took the first step by sending an olive branch to her dressing room - a symbol of restoring peace.