# There is NO feud! EVER! \[Taylor Swift / Kanye West\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311 "2016-07-19T12:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/1 "2016-07-19T12:52:51Z")
Sheesh people! Just how naive is the average American? There is no feud between Taylor and Kimye, okay? It’s just more attention whoring. By professional attention whores. How can y’all not see it? It’s just a way for them to drive each other’s press coverage. More media, more internet clicks, more ‘trending’, more tabloid and trash tv coverage. They live to ‘break the Internet’, remember? Kris vs Kim vs Kloe, Brandy vs Leanne, Taylor vs Kimye, it’s all the same stale trick. Stop buying into it already. How is this taking up news space in a world so chaotic and tumultuous with actual future altering world affairs unfolding daily? I weep for humanity if America is supposed to represent ‘exceptionalism’ in any form whatsoever! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/2 "2016-07-19T12:55:33Z")
Feud against who to the what now? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/3 "2016-07-19T13:07:39Z")
Oh yeah? What about the Hatfields and the McCoys? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/4 "2016-07-19T13:23:12Z")
Some of these ‘feuds’ are just phony attention seeking by people who don’t really care about each other. Still feuds in some very figurative and fictional sense. (The following is based on a thorough study of occasional internet blurbs without any follow up on the details because I don’t care about these people.) But I do think there’s a one-way feud between Swift and Kanye, she hates him, she’s a mean girl who attacks anyone who displeases her. Kanye is just fool with a big mouth and I doubt he cares one way or another about Swift. If she were gone he’d just act like a jerk to someone else to get some publicity. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/5 "2016-07-19T14:05:20Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > There is no feud between Taylor and Kimye, okay? > [@Ludovic](#): > > Feud against who to the what now? It’s the spelling that’s throwing you off, **Ludovic**. I think the OP meant “tailor” and “kimchi”. Apparently, the clothing maker did not like the fermenter being next door because it made all of his fabric smell funny. But maybe it was a marketing ploy and the tailor was really dating the kimchi chef. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/6 "2016-07-19T14:39:53Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Feud against who to the what now? Tailor Swift and Kanye West / Kim Kardashian. It’s understandable that some people might not know who they are…if they’ve been living in a cave…for the past 10 years…on Pluto. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/7 "2016-07-19T14:40:54Z")
So you’re telling me that these celebrity feuds I haven’t been giving a solitary shit about are actually \*fake \*celebrity feuds? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/8 "2016-07-19T14:41:50Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Tailor Swift… Taylor Swift, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/9 "2016-07-19T14:43:23Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > So you’re telling me that these celebrity feuds I haven’t been giving a solitary shit about are actually \*fake \*celebrity feuds? :mad: Yeah. Now you have to start all over and _ **really** _ not give a shit about them. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/10 "2016-07-19T14:46:04Z")
Bah, and here I was hoping that this was one of **Dolores Reborn** ’s game threads. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/11 "2016-07-19T14:47:26Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Kris vs Kim vs Kloe, Brandy vs Leanne, Taylor vs Kimye, it’s all the same stale trick. > [@msmith537](#): > > Tailor Swift and Kanye West / Kim Kardashian. It’s understandable that some people might not know who they are…if they’ve been living in a cave…for the past 10 years…on Pluto. But Taylor doesn’t necessarily mean Taylor Swift, and even moreso for cutesy mashup names that could be referring to anyone. And I wouldn’t even be able to make an educated guess who Kris, Kloe, Brandy, or Leanne were. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/12 "2016-07-19T14:54:05Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > But Taylor doesn’t necessarily mean Taylor Swift, and even moreso for cutesy mashup names that could be referring to anyone. And I wouldn’t even be able to make an educated guess who Kris, Kloe, Brandy, or Leanne were. It’s Khloé, though why there is an accent when she pronounces it Chloe I’ll never know. /ashamed to know this ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/13 "2016-07-19T14:56:08Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Sheesh people! Just how naive is the average American? > > There is no feud between Taylor and Kimye, okay? It’s just more attention whoring. By professional attention whores. How can y’all not see it? > > It’s just a way for them to drive each other’s press coverage. More media, more internet clicks, more ‘trending’, more tabloid and trash tv coverage. They live to ‘break the Internet’, remember? > > Kris vs Kim vs Kloe, Brandy vs Leanne, Taylor vs Kimye, it’s all the same stale trick. > > Stop buying into it already. > > How is this taking up news space in a world so chaotic and tumultuous with actual future altering world affairs unfolding daily? > > I weep for humanity if America is supposed to represent ‘exceptionalism’ in any form whatsoever! Hey, you’re the one paying attention, the rest of us are going about our business blissfully unaware theses people even exist. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/14 "2016-07-19T14:59:22Z")
Is it a real feud if there are no huntin rifles involved? And wouldn’t that be wonderful? ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/15 "2016-07-19T15:01:02Z")
Because I grocery shop! I know these names and these manufactured feuds only because I stand in line at the grocery! (I can’t help it, I read most everything I see!) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/16 "2016-07-19T15:33:17Z")
For me, my main exposure to these people was from the program The Soup. (Which I miss, by the way.) ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/17 "2016-07-19T15:56:50Z")
Thread relocated from IMHO to Cafe Society, with slightly more descriptive title. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/18 "2016-07-19T16:19:30Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > How is this taking up news space in a world so chaotic and tumultuous with actual future altering world affairs unfolding daily? Because some people prefer reading about a catfight between two celebrities to dwelling on genocide. Which I can’t really blame them. I worry about other trivial things instead of what Miss Swift is up to but if I thought about terrible world affairs 24/7, I wouldn’t last the week. ---
**Author:** ![tonyfop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@tonyfop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyfop)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/19 "2016-07-19T16:30:05Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Some of these ‘feuds’ are just phony attention seeking by people who don’t really care about each other. Still feuds in some very figurative and fictional sense. > > (The following is based on a thorough study of occasional internet blurbs without any follow up on the details because I don’t care about these people.) > > But I do think there’s a one-way feud between Swift and Kanye, she hates him, she’s a mean girl who attacks anyone who displeases her. Kanye is just fool with a big mouth and I doubt he cares one way or another about Swift. If she were gone he’d just act like a jerk to someone else to get some publicity. Okay, I really don’t give a crap about any of these people either, but any hate that Taylor Swift has for Kanye West is most assuredly deserved. He stole the spotlight from her first major award and used the time he stole to embarrass and humiliate a 19 year old girl on national television. He is a piece of crap, and will always be a piece of crap. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311/20 "2016-07-19T16:33:14Z")
I completely disagree. Steve Harvey may have screwed up at the Miss Universe pageant, but he runs a good, tight game. I think he’s probably the best host since Richard Dawson. He’s certainly more sober and less creepy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-no-feud-ever-taylor-swift-kanye-west/760311.md?page=2)