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Ten years of receipts prove Hollywood friendships have a shelf life.

Celebrity feuds don’t stay quiet for long, and by the summer of 2016 pop culture had a new favorite blood sport: watching Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West trade accusations in real time. The rivalry traces back seven years to a single interrupted speech, but it exploded again in 2016 thanks to a controversial lyric, a Grammy speech, and a Snapchat drop that changed the entire narrative. Add in Swift’s long-simmering rift with Katy Perry and the tension bubbling among younger stars like Kendall Jenner and Selena Gomez, and it’s clear these fights don’t fade — they just wait for the next spark.

• Kanye West’s 2016 track “Famous,” off The Life of Pablo, revived a feud that started at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, with the lyric “I made that bitch famous” aimed directly at Taylor Swift.
• On July 17, 2016, Kim Kardashian posted recorded phone call snippets to Snapchat showing Swift discussing the song favorably with West, undercutting Swift’s public denial from her February 2016 Grammy Awards speech.
• Swift’s feud with Katy Perry traces back to 2012-2013, when dancers left Swift’s Red tour to join Perry’s Prismatic World Tour, inspiring the 2014 single “Bad Blood.”

The VMA Moment That Wouldn’t Die

The origin story is one of the most replayed clips in awards-show history: Kanye West grabbing the microphone from a 19-year-old Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs to declare that Beyoncé “had one of the best videos of all time.” It became a punchline for years, then a genuine grudge once West resurfaced the dynamic on wax. “Famous” landed on The Life of Pablo in early 2016 with a line that reopened the wound completely — “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous” — and Swift didn’t let it slide.

Swift used her February 2016 Grammy Awards acceptance speech to fire back without naming West directly, telling the room that women in the industry shouldn’t let others take credit for their success. It read, at the time, like Swift had the last word. That didn’t last.

Kim Kardashian’s Snapchat Bombshell

Everything flipped on July 17, 2016, when Kim Kardashian West posted recorded phone call audio to Snapchat that appeared to show Swift warmly discussing the “Famous” lyric with West before its release — seemingly at odds with the singer’s public objection. The clips set off an immediate firestorm across social media, with Swift’s camp insisting she had approved a reference to fame in the song but was never told she’d be called “that bitch.” The distinction mattered enormously to Swift’s defense, even as much of the internet moved on without drawing it.

“I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous.”

The fallout turned into one of the most dissected pop-culture episodes of the summer, less a single fight than a running referendum on who told the truth first. It’s the kind of drawn-out public relations battle that echoes other stars who’ve torched their own image on social media, the same instinct explored in Reporters Who Ruined Their Careers On Social Media.

Katy Perry and the Dancers Who Started It All

Swift’s other marquee feud has quieter origins but just as much staying power. Around 2012 and 2013, dancers exited Swift’s Red tour to join Katy Perry’s Prismatic World Tour, a move Swift’s camp reportedly viewed as a betrayal. Perry escalated things publicly with a tweet warning followers to “watch out for the Regina George in sheep’s clothing” — a not-so-subtle Mean Girls jab widely read as aimed at Swift. Swift responded with “Bad Blood” in 2014, a song built almost entirely on the wreckage of their friendship. Neither camp has walked it back since, and it remains one of the most cited examples of former friends turned rivals, a dynamic detailed further in Celebs Who Started Out Friends And Ended Up Enemies.

Tension Simmering Among Younger Stars

Not every feud needs a diss track to make headlines. Mid-2016 entertainment coverage also pointed to friction within young Hollywood circles, including reported tension between Kendall Jenner and Selena Gomez, part of a broader pattern of social media callouts and disputed loyalties running through the industry. It’s a reminder that these rivalries aren’t limited to chart-topping musicians — they play out just as often among reality stars and actresses navigating the same tight social circles, the same pattern that’s followed Perry through years of public disputes, as chronicled in People Katy Perry Treated Like Trash.

As of late July 2016, none of it had cooled off. Swift hadn’t issued a follow-up statement beyond her initial pushback on the “that bitch” framing, Kardashian’s Snapchat clips were still circulating, and Perry’s “Bad Blood” was still getting spun on pop radio as the unofficial soundtrack to the whole mess.