Taylor Swift Seems To Rename Song After Kanye West, Blocks His Album From No. 1
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The "Tortured Poets Department" singer released yet another version of her album to retain its No. 1 spot — and seemingly got the better of Ye twice.
Taylor Swift apparently knows how to torture her fellow poets — and hold a grudge or two.
The singer has dropped several variants of her album “The Tortured Poets Department” since its release in April to protect her No. 1 perch atop the Billboard 200 charts, and just did so again — this time beating Kanye West and his new “Vultures 2” album.
“Poets” has now held 14 nonconsecutive weeks at the top of the charts; “Vultures 2” debuted at No. 2.
Swifties on social media are celebrating the stunt, which arguably proved that there there is still bad blood between Swift and West. The rapper infamously ruined Swift’s 2009 MTV Video Music Awards moment and dissed her in his 2016 song “Famous.”
Eagle-eyed fans have also noticed that Swift has quietly changed how she spells the name of a song on the album, previously titled “thanK you aIMee.” The upper-case letters, spelling out “KIM,” were a rumored slight against Kim Kardashian. For her new, live version, the song title is “thank You aimEe” — and the upper-case letters spell out “YE.”