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"Thank You Aimee"
Song by Taylor Swift
from the album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology
ReleasedApril 19, 2024 (2024-04-19)
GenreFolk
Length4:23
LabelRepublic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)

"Thank You Aimee" (stylized as "thanK you aIMee") is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, taken from The Anthology, the double album edition of her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department (2024). The song was written and produced by Swift and Aaron Dessner, with Jack Antonoff also providing production. The song's lyrics discuss dealing with a school bully, which media outlets widely interpreted as a metaphor for Swift's feud with American media personality Kim Kardashian.[1]

Background

Swift released the standard edition of The Tortured Poets Department on April 19, 2024, containing sixteen tracks and four different seventeenth bonus track among different vinyl variant releases. Two hours after release, Swift surprise-released fifteen more tracks as a double album titled The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.[2]

Swift has had a longstanding public feud with American rapper Kanye West, which began when West walked onstage and interrupted Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.[3] In 2016, West released the single "Famous". Swift considered the lyrics of the song misogynistic, and felt West wrongfully took credit for her success. Several months later, West's then-wife, media personality Kim Kardashian, posted edited excerpts of a video showing a phone call between West and Swift that suggested Swift approved of the offending lyric.[4] The full version of the video was later leaked in 2020, showing that Swift ultimately did not approve of some of West's lyrics.[5] The controversy partially inspired Swift's sixth studio album, Reputation (2017). In her 2023 interview for Time's Person of the Year, Swift referred to Kardashian's actions as "a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar."[6]

Music and lyrics

Fans and music journalists quickly suspected that Swift's feud with Kardashian was the subject of "Thank You Aimee," due to the styling of the title as "thanK you aIMee" with the capitalized letters spelling out "KIM".[7] "Thank You Aimee" is 24th on the track list of The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.[8] It is a folk track with country pop stylings[9] and its lyrics target a bully.[10]

Charts

Chart performance for "Thank You Aimee"
Chart (2024) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[11] 28
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[12] 29

References

  1. ^ Longmire, Becca. "Are Taylor Swift's Tracks 'thanK you aIMee' and 'Cassandra' About Kim Kardashian?". People. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  2. ^ Rosenbloom, Alli (April 19, 2024). "Taylor Swift's surprise double album 'The Tortured Poets Department' is daggers wrapped in a lullaby". CNN. Archived from the original on April 19, 2024. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  3. ^ Mather, Victor. "Bad Blood: A Timeline of the Swift-West-Kardashian Feud". The New York Times. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  4. ^ Abad-Santos, Alex. "Kim Kardashian's Taylor Swift-Kanye West Snapchat story, explained". Vox. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  5. ^ Grady, Constance. "Newly leaked footage shows Taylor Swift and Kanye West talking "Famous"". Vox. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  6. ^ West, Bryan. "Revelations from Taylor Swift's Time interview, including Kim Kardashian, Ye feud". USA Today. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  7. ^ Stahl, Jay. "Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian and Ye feud timeline: VMAs to 'The Tortured Poets Department'". USA Today. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  8. ^ Muir, Ellie (April 20, 2024). "Taylor Swift 'thanks' Kim Kardashian on Tortured Poets song as she reflects on feud". The Independent. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
  9. ^ Exposito, Suzu (April 20, 2024). "Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department". British Vogue. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
  10. ^ Fish, Ryan (April 22, 2024). "Every Song on Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department, Ranked". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  11. ^ "ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. April 29, 2024. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
  12. ^ "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart". Recorded Music NZ. April 29, 2024. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
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