This whole thing started when Taylor Swift decided she didn’t want to merely write blind-item songs about ex-boyfriends and set about writing a blind-item song about Katy Perry. To Taylor’s way of thinking, Katy Perry was and is a Mean Girl who tried to destroy her (Taylor’s) tour by “stealing” some dancers (dancers who actually preferred to work with Katy). There was probably a dash of John Mayer drama in there too, plus Katy and Taylor just have a personality clash, I suppose. In any case, Taylor let it be known that she doesn’t care for Katy, and Katy let it be known that she thinks Taylor is the real Mean Girl. It was all very petty and stupid and junior high school.
And then it got taken to a new level last week, when Katy’s boyfriend (??) Diplo threw some major shade at Taylor Swift. Diplo started tweeting “Someone should make a kickstarter to get taylor swift a booty.” He kept tweeting about it and all of the Swift-loonies trolled him online and called him out for body-shaming Taylor (which he did). Taylor’s friend Lorde also got into it, tweeting: “@diplo should we do something about your tiny p-nis while we’re at it hm.” Which… I mean, if we’re going to go for a full-on high school cat-fight, I guess Lorde wins. So of course Diplo couldn’t let Lorde get the last word.
Diplo has now kicked off round three, retweeting Lorde’s comment on Saturday, and adding in parentheses, “the moment u realize she’s a high school student.” He went on to share a photoshopped image making it look like Swift had tweeted “Taylor’sAss is trending!!” which, of course, she didn’t, along with his own comment of “You go girl.”
Further referring to Lorde’s comment and his previous diss of Swift’s fans, Diplo tweeted, “Disappointed the swift boat veterans didn’t get my tiny d*ck a fundly going (enlarge me bae).” He then actually played up his professional connection to Lorde, tweeting an article about his collaboration with Ariana Grande and his group Major Lazer on “All My Love,” for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 soundtrack, which Lorde curated. Diplo wrote of their association, “When I’m not being bodyshamed by a teenager we are collaborating on cool music.”
And he still wasn’t done. He retweeted a Swift diss from television music supervisor Scott Vener, who wrote, “@diplo u should remix blank space cuz that sh*t has no bottom.” And when a Swift fan tweeted, “@diplo the moment you realize you’re irrelevant and @lordemusic is more famous than you can dream of being,” Diplo responded, “@sparks_fly13 @lordemusic i dream pretty big doe.” Lorde hasn’t responded to the new tweets, while Swift has yet to acknowledge the issue at all.
Diplo’s issue with Swift seems to tie to speculation that she and his girlfriend Katy Perry have beef. As Gossip Cop previously reported, after Swift said her song “Bad Blood” is about a singer who tried to sabotage one of her tours, Perry took to Twitter less than 24 hours later to blast an unnamed “mean girl.”
I kind of wonder if Lorde will reply. I kind of wonder if Taylor will ask her friend Lorde to just sit this one out and make Diplo look like an even bigger jackass. I mean… who the hell is Diplo? Really? Do people really think, “Oh, Diplo is Real Music, I hate Taylor Swift and Lorde, but give me Katy Perry and Diplo all day long”???? And why the hell is Katy Perry’s boyfriend trolling two of the most powerful women in music these days? What is the endgame here?
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