In early August, rumors that Taylor Swift and Katy Perry would end their longtime feud at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards began to spread. Neither star has confirmed a public reconciliation, but Katy Perry is hosting the event, and she’s made it clear that she intends to make peace with her fellow pop star at some point.
The timeline of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry’s feud shows that these two have been arguing for a long time, and it might take a lot to settle this argument. Swift, who recently deleted all her social media, will premiere a new music video at the event. It would be an ideal moment for both singers to reunite and bury the hatchet, but it’s unclear whether these stars be able to put all that bad blood behind them.The VMA stage has been a place of reconciliation for stars in the past. In 2015,
in a joint performance, and it’s very possible that the Swift and Perry will do the same. That is, if Swift even attends the awards’ show, which has yet to be confirmed. On Friday, Swift revealed that the music video for her latest single “Look What You Made Me Do,” will premiere at the show. If these two pop icons decide to settle the score on the air, it will end a disagreement that has spanned over four years.It all started in 2013 with the notorious stolen backup dancers.
2013: Taylor Swift’s “Red” World Tour
Rumors started to spread three dancers on tour with Taylor Swift left to work with Katy Perry. Dancer Lockhart Brownlie confirmed the conflict to OK! Magazine. “Katy is like family to us, so we were like, ‘Absolutely,’” Lockharttold the publication. “We weren’t really dancing on Taylor’s tour anyway, so I got a little bored.” It turned out that the Swift took their exit personally.
2014: ‘Rolling Stone’ Cover Story
In a 2014 cover story for Rolling Stone, the singer revealed that a track off 1989 would be about Perry, who she alluded to, but didn’t identify by name. Swift told the publication:
The song would end up being Bad Blood, which is indeed understood to be a diss track directed at Perry.
2014: Katy Perry’s Mean Girls Tweet
Days after the story was published, Perry posted this vague yet oh, so pointed Tweet.
2015: Katy Perry Weighs In On Nicki Minaj & Taylor Swifts Twitter Exchange
Finding it ironic to parade the pit women against other women argument about as one unmeasurably capitalizes on the take down of a woman…
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry)
Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift had a notorious clash online when the former tweeted about being snubbed for her “Anaconda” video at the 2015 VMAs. In a somewhat telling reaction, Swift took the post personally, and tweeted at the rapper, “I’ve done nothing but love & support you. It’s unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot.” Swift eventually apologized to Minaj, and they buried the hatchet at the VMAs.
At the height of the conflict, Katy Perry weighed in. “Finding it ironic to parade the pit women against other women argument about as one unmeasurably capitalizes…
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