Taylor Swift fans criticized FKA Twigs for an Instagram video that bore a striking resemblance to an infamous scene in Kanye West's “Famous” video.
The infamous sequence in the 2016 music video showed Kanye lying shirtless in bed next to the dolls of several topless people, including Taylor.
He was bombarded with abuse for the music video and also for the provocative lyrics in which he said of Taylor: “I made that guy famous.”
FKA Twigs posted a new Instagram album this week looking back on her year, including her trips to places like Berlin, Ibiza, Prague and Big Sur.
Her retrospective included shots that panned over a white bed where FKA Twigs lay next to some of her friends, including musician Eartheater.
Taylor Swift fans criticized FKA Twigs for an Instagram video that bore a striking resemblance to an infamous scene in Kanye West's “Famous” video
The infamous sequence in the 2016 music video showed Kanye lying shirtless in bed next to the dolls of several topless people, including Taylor and Kim Kardashian
FKA Twigs posted a new Instagram album this week looking back on her year, including her trips to places like Berlin, Ibiza, Prague and Big Sur
Her retrospective included shots that panned over a white bed where FKA Twigs lay next to some of her friends, including musician Eartheater
The clip was eerily reminiscent of the shot in Kanye's Famous video, which featured dummies of several unclothed people in bed next to him.
One of them was Taylor, who Kanye had feuded with in the past, and one of the others was his then-wife Kim Kardashian.
Some social media users took aim at FKA Twigs for her new video, including one who wrote, “When the music flops they rely on Taylor's clout…fka Twigs is so weird for that.”
“Jealousy is real.” Twigs is NOTHING BUT DRAMA. “She’s always causing trouble, no one wants anything to do with her,” wrote another.
“Her life is so bad that she tries to bring others down to her level.” “She knows how much this hurt Taylor, she's the type to pour SALT in wounds, she enjoys seeing people hurt,” the X user sensationally claimed.
Some of the other X-posts even took aim at FKA Twigs' claims that her ex-boyfriend Shia LaBeouf was physically abusive and sexually abusive to her.
“FKA Twigs making fun of Taylor Swift's revenge porn situation with Kanye while being a sexual abuse advocate is so hypocritical,” one wrote.
“Really rich twigs to make fun of something that caused Taylor so much stress and problems and yet she had no problem destroying Shia Labeouf's career and blacklisting his wife,” another snapped.
Some social media users took aim at FKA Twigs for her new video, including one who wrote, “When the music flops they rely on Taylor's clout…fka Twigs is so weird for that.”
Some social media users rushed to FKA Twigs' defense, while others sat back and wondered about the feud between the two singers' fan bases
Shia's wife, Mia Goth, has not publicly claimed to have been banned from the industry – and in fact, since Shia's scandal, she has starred in the horror film “Pearl” and received critical acclaim for her performance.
FKA Twigs also had some defenders, like one who was looking to “get away from Taylor and to stage some “revenge porn.”
“Famous,” which was included on Kanye’s album “The Life OF Pablo,” featured his unforgettable dig at Taylor: “I made the b**** famous.”
The line was a reference to the explosive start of their feud in 2009, when Kanye jumped on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards and interrupted Taylor's acceptance speech to shower Beyoncé with praise.
When Famous dropped out in 2016, Taylor and her Swifties were quick to respond to displeasure, prompting Kim to enter the fray.
Kim publicly branded Taylor a “snake” because she claimed she had no idea Kanye would use the phrase, “I made that guy famous.”
At the time, Kim leaked a video of Kanye's phone call with Taylor, in which he shared his text with her: “I feel like Taylor and I could still have sex.”
The video suggested that Taylor had lied about not being warned about the song and subsequently received massive public backlash.
The feud began in 2009 when Kanye jumped on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards and interrupted Taylor's acceptance speech to shower Beyoncé with praise
Her abuse on social media is believed to have been one of the reasons Taylor later took a break from music.
She made her big comeback in 2017 with her defining song “Look What You Made Me Do,” whose music video contained multiple scathing references to the “Kimye” feud.
At one point, Taylor depicts herself firing a gun while sitting in a tub filled with diamonds – in a moment that is presumably a joke about Kim's robbery in Paris, as the reality star is bound and gagged in the bathtub was thrown when the burglars confiscated her jewelry.
In early 2020, as COVID-19 lockdowns gripped America, the feud erupted again when a more detailed video of Kanye's phone call with Taylor surfaced via Famous.
During the course of the video, Kanye fails to question Taylor about his use of the word “b***h” or the implication that he “made her famous.”
The Swifties used the video as proof that their idol had been vindicated, and the outcry on social media became so intense that Kim issued a response.
Kim accused Taylor of “lying” and mocked her for deciding to “rekindle an old exchange – which feels very self-serving at this point given the suffering millions of real victims are currently facing.”
She claimed: “To be clear, the only problem I ever had with this situation was that Taylor lied about her publicist saying that “Kanye never called to ask permission…” You made it clear spoken, so I'll let you all see it.” No one has ever denied that the word “b****” was used without her permission.
Taylor's feud with Kim and Kanye included several digs at her in her music video for her 2017 single “Look What You Made Me Do.”
In the “Look What You Made Me Do” video, Taylor mimes shooting a gun while sitting in a tub filled with diamonds in a moment believed to be a joke about Kim's robbery in Paris acts
Kim added: “At the time they spoke, the song had not yet been fully written, but as everyone can see in the video, she manipulated the veracity of their actual conversation in her statement when her team said she “declined and Warned him not to release a song with such a strong misogynistic message.”
She doubled down on her statement: “The lie was never about the word b****. It was always about whether there was a call or not and the tone of the conversation.”
However, at the time of the original Famous controversy in 2016, a spokesperson for Taylor had told a very different story.
“Kanye wasn’t asking for consent, but rather asking Taylor to release his single “Famous” on her Twitter account. She refused and warned him not to release a song with such a strong misogynistic message,” she explained. “Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyrics: 'I made this guy famous.'”