When Katy Perry performed astatine the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, each eyes were connected Taylor Swift to gauge her reaction.
Taylor Swift Stuns connected the 2024 VMAs Red Carpet successful a Sultry and Strappy Ensemble
When Taylor Swift goes to a amusement and decides she's conscionable gonna shake, you tin stake each eyes volition beryllium connected her.
So she was having her accustomed shot astatine the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, and erstwhile it came clip to grant Katy Perry with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, of people galore cameras zoomed successful connected the "Bad Blood" singer to spot if this would get filed distant successful the tortured moments department.
But Taylor showed thing but huffy emotion for Katy, proving that it's each h2o nether the span betwixt them by giving the "Firework" creator a lasting ovation. (See the afloat database of winners astatine the 2024 MTV VMAs.)
Not that we expected thing less, Katy having attended the Eras Tour successful Australia backmost successful February. "Got to spot an aged person radiance tonight," she posted astatine the time.
Back successful 2019, Taylor told Capital Breakfast, "She and I person truly been connected bully presumption for a while. We saw each different astatine a enactment and walked up to each different and hugged it retired and talked astir things, and past we saw each different again and hung retired astatine different enactment and it was conscionable similar thing felt truthful overmuch lighter astir my beingness erstwhile things became truly bully betwixt us."
Though that revelation successful itself confirmed that there were things to speech about.
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Just arsenic she's ne'er confirmed the identities of immoderate of the emotion interests she's assumed to person sung extensively about, nor has Taylor ever expressly name-checked Katy arsenic idiosyncratic she was feuding with.
But successful 2014, up of the merchandise of 1989, she mentioned a chap pistillate who, "for years, I was ne'er definite if we were friends oregon not."
And then, Taylor told Rolling Stone, that pistillate "did thing truthful horrible," she concluded they were "just straight-up enemies."
"It wasn't adjacent astir a guy!" Taylor added. "It had to bash with business. She fundamentally tried to sabotage an full arena tour."
Katy infamously tweeted not agelong after, "Watch retired for the Regina George successful sheep's clothing..."
So erstwhile Taylor's "Bad Blood" euphony video came out—starring seemingly each squad subordinate she'd ever had, positive a fewer chaotic cards, but nary Katy—their feud was beauteous overmuch written arsenic gospel.
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But that was nine years ago, and they've agelong since returned to communal admiration nine status.
See each the pics of Taylor surviving her champion beingness successful the assemblage astatine the 2024 MTV VMAs: