The Snapchat that broke the internet–and suggested that Taylor Swift is a liar–comes after months of public tirednes over the pop starring. Can she overcome the bad press? “>
Here lies Taylor Swift, 1989 -2 016, Murdered Via Snapchat By Kimberly Kardashian
So reads the meme tombstone memorializing the music industrys Empress With No Clothes, stripped naked of her self-victimizing media manipulations by reality TVs Mad Queen.
It began as they said-she said and remains that, even as the somewhat gleeful social media reaction to Kardashians damning Sunday night Snapchats poisoned Swifts already weak celebrity immune system, sending her to an early tomb amidst an increasingly fatal case of public weariness over the starring.
Theres fatigue over Swifts insistence of turning fun and relationship into performance art, culminating with her star-spangled squads obnoxious flaunting of Fourth of July frivolity.
Theres reflexive scoffing at her picture-perfectas in probably/ most definitely posed for relationship with Tom Hiddleston. And not to mention eye-rolling as the Maneater Swift media narrative builds its way around the carousel again, with Swift and Hiddleston hamming for the paparazzi just a blink and a kiss-off after her breakup with Calvin Harris.
Then theres the Nils Sjoberg tale, which is just about as interesting as the words Nils Sjoberg saga sound.
And now, as has been breathlessly reported overnight after some masterful foreplay on Sundays episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians , Kim Kardashian cast Taylor Swift to the wolves, via Snapchat. This sentence was brought to you by the year 2016.
The wife of Kanye West video proof that her husband had, indeed, called Swift for her approving to refer to her in the I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/ Why? I built that bitch famous lyric in his song Famous, though Swifts publicist had claimed he never did.
Furthermore, when Swift won the Album of the Year award at the 2016 Grammys, she calculatedly use her speech to elevate herself above what her reps statement called a misogynistic message, ascending to her throne as pops resilient ruler and banishing West and Kardashian from her Kingdom of Respectability.
Kardashians videos, however, glisten a spotlightalbeit a grainy and at times questionably edited oneon how Swift and her camp manipulate the press and the public, going so far as to even fabricate narrations( cough, Hiddleswift, cough ).
As the Twitter pas de deux between the downright celebratory #KimExposesTaylorParty and #TaylorSwiftIsOverParty hashtags suggests, Kardashian, according to this new narrative, had exposed the real Swift, the ostensibly conniving one too blinded to suppose she could be crushed. But Kardashian whipped up the tornado that hurled the house right on her. After weathering a spate of frustrating PR stunts and disagreements, the resounding chorus in the carnage: Ding dong the witch is dead .
As The Daily Beasts Amy Zimmerman wrote, Kardashian beat Swift at her own game. Utilizing celebrity power, a PR machine, immeasurable culture influence, and media masterminding she refocused a spinning, potentially damaging narrative to not only defined the record straightonce the singular fear in a celebrity controversy , now second to public perception and goodwillbut recast herself as the victimized hero. Swift? Now shes the mean daughter.
For proof that truth is auxiliary to mass opinion, look no further than the more nuanced facts of the controversy.
From the start, the statement from Swifts rep articulated that this matter was with the phrase that bitch, specificallywhich West, at least in the clips provided by Kardashian, doesnt running past her. Swift points that out in an Instagram post published in reaction to the Snapchat that has broken the internet, going on to say that shes being falsely painted as a liar.