8. Katy Perry
If you’ve heard Swift’s song “Bad Blood,” then it’s important to know that the song is about Katy Perry, one of Swift’s extreme long-time rivals. The story of Perry and Swift is a long one, and to this day, they are not fans of each other at all. It’s rumored and assumed that part of Perry and Swift’s drama comes from the fact that they both dated the same man.
In 2010, Swift dated John Mayer for a period of time which resulted in the creation of the song “Dear John,” and Perry dated him in 2012. Swift and Perry have never commented on the other dating Mayer, and it’s said by Swift herself that what caused the initial hatred was because of business and tour dancers. During Swift’s Red tour, she had three of her dancers leave her tour early because they were hired by Perry to dance for her Prismatic tour. In her 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, Swift told the story of her and Perry from her account. “She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour.
She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational—you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.” Swift also claims that before this, she was never sure if her and Perry were friends because of the way Perry spoke to her – Swift never knew if Perry was genuine with her. Since then, Swift has released “Bad Blood,” which is all about Perry, and Perry has taken as many chances as she can to comment on any drama that happens with Swift, taking the side of whoever she is pitted against.
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