One time, she met John Mayer on a plane, and he told her she was pretty.
Watch out for the Regina George in sheep’s clothing…
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) September 9, 2014
To recap the crucial developments that have lead you to both this important story and this new and scary but nonetheless very exciting place in your life: while describing the events that informed ‘Bad Blood’, a song on her upcoming album about a rift with fellow singer, Swift outlined in her nicest glitter pen in the margins of her notebook – her ‘i’s dotted with perfect circles, wearing a t-shirt under her clothes that reads ‘I <3 Riff Raff‘ – the circumstances that would precede the penning of said song, which read as follows:
“For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not,” [Swift] says. “She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’” Then last year, the other star crossed a line. “She did something so horrible,” Swift says. “I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational – you would not believe how much I hate conflict [Ed. note: nope, I could believe that]. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.“
The arena sabotage incident that has lead to this not-at-all-hyperbolic blood feud refers to Perry violently poaching no less than three dancers from Swift’s admittedly very bored dance troupe, including a Tasmanian-born dancer who describes Swift as “untouchable” and “protected” and Katy as “fun”. I could believe that.
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