Perry reached out to Swift on May 8, the day of her first Reputation stadium tour show. After the song's release, Swift squad member Ruby Rose wrote in a since-deleted tweet, "I just think with everything going on in the world to go from rebranding as a political activist only to ditch it and go low. Nicki Minaj has a verse on the song, which is potentially a callback to her 2017 VMAs conflict with Swift. But, let me say this: Everything has a reaction or a consequence so don’t forget about that, okay, honey."Ī week later, Perry dropped "Swish Swish," her apparent answer to Swift's diss track. Honestly, when women come together and they decide to unite, this world is going to be a better place. And that's not to any one person and don't quote me that it is, because it's not. "One thing to note is: You can't mistake kindness for weakness and don't come for me," Perry offered as an answer. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly ahead of its debut, she was asked if her new music would respond to "Bad Blood" in any way.
May 2017: Things between the pair remained quiet until the release of Perry's album Witness. I knew the song would be assigned to a person, and the easiest mark was someone who I didn't want to be labeled with this song. I never said anything that would point a finger in the specific direction of one specific person, and I can sleep at night knowing that. But then people cryptically tweet about what you meant. So you say, 'That was about losing a friend,'" she told GQ. "You’re in a Rolling Stone interview, and the writer says, 'Who is that song about? That sounds like a really intense moment from your life.' And you sit there, and you know you're on good terms with your ex-boyfriend, and you don't want him-or his family-to think you're firing shots at him. October 2015: But in the fall of 2015, Swift still refused to confirm that "Bad Blood" was about Perry. Tonight it was shark night 🐚 #1989TourFoxborough /mkRSL7tr3f- Nick July 26, 2015 People basically connected the dots that Swift was speaking about Perry in the interview. The day after the interview was released on September 8, Perry tweeted, "Watch out for the Regina George in sheep's clothing.," referring to the villainous Mean Girls character. And I'm surprisingly non-confrontational–you would not believe how much I hate conflict. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. I was like, 'Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.' And it wasn't even about a guy! It had to do with business. She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, 'Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?' She did something so horrible. During the cover interview, she's asked about the inspiration for the song "Bad Blood" and she alluded to a rift with another celebrity: "For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not. Ahead of the release of 1989, Swift spoke to Rolling Stone. September 2014: It wasn't until another interview nine months later by one of the parties involved that the feud really got moving. When we did see her, we had so much fun with her, but she's a lot more protected than Katy."
"So we were, like, 'Absolutely.' We weren’t really dancing in Taylor's tour anyway, so I had got a little bored, and I really wanted to do a promo tour." He added, "Taylor is very untouchable. "Obviously we were with Katy for two and a half years, she’s like family to us,” he told the outlet. Brownlie explained that he had toured with Perry before in 2011, so when Perry's people reached out, he agreed to jump ship. In an interview with Australia’s The Examiner, dancer Lockhart Brownlie says he and two of Perry's other former dancers left Swift's Red tour in 2012 for Perry's Prism tour. December 2013: But by the end of the year, rumors swirled that the former friends were now foes.