Taylor Swift has just been the talk of the town every day, every season, and TIME recognizes it. On December 6, Swift was unveiled as the 2023 Person of the Year and she spoke unapologetically about every challenge she had to face to come to this day, particularly her infamous phone call with Kanye West.
in July 2016, Kaye West released a music video titled, “Famous,” featuring vulgar lyrics about Swift with a naked wax figure of her and claimed Taylor consented to it. At that time, Swift released a short statement denying the situation and Kim Kardashian immediately released a call she recorded of the artist, indicating Swift was on board with the song.
Since then, the general public turned against her and she started to be called a snake. She felt her career died, and she says her career was taken away from her. Swift continued by stating it was a bleak moment after Kim Kardashian illegally recorded the phone call and edited it just to say to everyone she was a liar.
Taylor opened up and stated she was taken down psychologically to a place she had never been before and she disappeared from the public eye. She expressed how afraid she was to get on phone calls and pushed many people away because she didn’t know who she could trust.
Taylor’s astonishing 2016, album “Reputation” featured snakes as part of her promotion to indicate she was ready to leave people’s opinions behind. Her iconic “Look What You Made Me Do” embodied what she wanted to express as she killed off younger versions of herself. The end of his controversy gave her fans, better known as Swifties one of Swift’s signature eras, which is expected to be the next re-recorded for 2024.
