Katy Perry and Taylor Swift End Feud as ‘Example for Young Girls’
One of the biggest stories of the 2010s was the feud between Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. However, the singers want to sing a different tune this decade. Both singers have spoken openly about their reconciliation in interviews.
“Gossip and lies, they take the elevator, but truth takes the stairs,” Perry, 35, said on Tuesday on Sirius XM’s The Howard Stern Show.
“What I’m so grateful for is we did get to make up publicly and got to be an example of redemption for young girls,” she continued.
The Firework singer also noted the double standard; how the media can focus on negativity when it comes to her and her fellow women. Perry brought up how “you never see articles about Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber in a fight.”
“It’s hard for young girls, growing up [with] cliques and high school and pettiness and all that stuff,” she added. “So now we’re super friendly and I’ve always wanted the best for her. We can talk about the best we want for each other.”
Perry, 35, and Swift, 30, arguably two of the biggest women in pop music, had been at odds since 2014; when Swift said in Rolling Stone profile that she and an unnamed fellow female artist were “straight-up enemies.”
Perry, just the next day, seemed to confirm her feud with Swift and that the interview was about her; infamously tweeting: “Watch out for the Regina George in sheep’s clothing.”
It was all Bad Blood after that — at least until Perry appeared in Swift’s You Need to Calm Down music video in 2019 and the beef was squashed for good.
