Taylor Swift's References To Feuds On New Album Are 'Obvious,' Source Claims

Taylor Swift’s long-running celebrity feuds will reportedly take center stage on her forthcoming album. Sources say “Reputation,” which will release Nov. 10, targets Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Swift’s ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris.

An unnamed source told Us Weekly that the singer’s sixth studio album “chronicles” her relationships with her apparent enemies “across multiple songs, somewhat cryptically,” however the source added that the references are also “obvious.” A separate source described the lyrics as “totally on point.”

Swift has a history of appearing to write thinly veiled interpretations of her own relationships, and the first source told the magazine that Swift also references Harris on the album. But despite their public falling out, the insider said that “there is only one song with a reference to him.”

Controversy has dogged Swift’s album since it was first announced, as it was noted by the New York Times that its release date corresponds to the 10th anniversary of the death of West’s mother. In addition, after she released the video for the album’s first single “Look What You Made Me Do,” fans and critics speculated that Swift mocked Kardashian’s robbery at gunpoint in her Paris apartment by appearing in a bathtub in the video while covered in diamonds. Kardashian had been bound and thrown into a bathtub as thieves made away with her jewels.

Swift’s ongoing feud with West and Kardashian began in 2009 and has at times appeared to be quashed before heating up again. Most recently, Kardashian released damning audio of a call between Swift and West that appeared to contradict statement’s the singer had made about West’s song “Famous,” in which she was mentioned. Swift said at the time that she no longer wanted to be part of the ongoing drama.

“Being falsely printed as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination,” she said in a statement. “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2009.”

It appeared upon the release of her single “Look What You Made Me Do” that she’d changed her mind.