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Katy Perry Shades Taylor Swift in VMAs 2015 Feud with Nicki Minaj

Taylor is a hypocrite and Katy is calling her out

Jul 23, 2015 08:03 GMT  ·  By
Katy Perry calls out Taylor Swift for being a hypocrite in the VMAs 2015 feud with Nicki Minaj
   Katy Perry calls out Taylor Swift for being a hypocrite in the VMAs 2015 feud with Nicki Minaj

Shortly after the nominations for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards were announced, rapper Nicki Minaj went off on Twitter saying that her music clips for “Anaconda” and “Feeling Myself” ft. Beyonce should have been nominated for Video of the Year.

She turned her anger into an argument of how black entertainers, and especially female ones, weren’t getting the recognition they deserved from the industry. Taylor Swift took that to mean she didn’t deserve a nod for her “Bad Blood” and called her out to admonish her that, as a woman, she shouldn’t be bringing other women down.

Katy Perry has injected herself into the feud, and she’s calling Taylor a big hypocrite. And she’s doing it with just one tweet, which you will find embedded below.

Katy has the floor, calls out Taylor Swift for being a hypocrite

You will also find the original tweets from Nicki and Taylor below. Notice that Nicki didn’t even mention Taylor by name until she jumped to find her comment offensive, and then the rapper said she too had nothing but love and respect for her and her work.

Nicki insisted that the whole argument she was trying to make was about how the industry and the media put black people down by not giving them the same recognition their white counterparts receive for similar achievements.

The thing is, Katy says, Taylor shouldn’t be the one to talk about the need for girls to support other girls, because she’s actually making money and, ironically enough, getting award nominations for doing just that.

Some context for the Taylor vs. Katy feud

A while back, these 2 were inseparable friends. Before Taylor’s “1989” album came out, Taylor said that the most aggressive song on it was “Bad Blood” (i.e. the one with the most nominations at the VMAs 2015), which was about a former female friend who had tried to backstab her professionally by hiring dancers from under her during an arena tour and thus nearly ruining it.

When the video for it came out, which features Selena Gomez in a wig and getup that makes her look eerily like Katy Perry, the rumor that the song was about Katy became a near-certainty.

In other words, “Bad Blood” is the Taylor Swift Katy-Perry-takedown-song. She is putting a female entertainer down publicly and capitalizing on it, but at the same time, she’s telling Nicki she shouldn’t do that to her because… feminism?

And that is what Katy meant by her tweet on the VMAs 2015 feud. Her second post on the topic is about how “the real travesty” about the VMAs is that Rihanna got no love for her controversial and very popular “Better Have My Money” music video.