Another day, another fight with Taylor Swift.
Rumors of behind-the-scenes friction between Swift and Billie Eilish have circulated for weeks, with eagle-eyed fans highlighting a number of perceived slights between the two megastars.
Now it seems we finally have proof that “beef” is not just an imagination.
“Industry experts are not blind to the fact that Taylor is using her fans as weapons and that Billie appears to be the latest victim of that campaign,” a source close to Eilish, 22, exclusively told DailyMail.com. .
“Every time Taylor becomes jealous of a peer’s success, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his fans start vicious online campaigns to bring that person down without even telling them to stop. All while operating under the guise of being the America’s love,” the source added.
Rumors of behind-the-scenes friction between Swift and Billie Eilish have circulated for weeks, with eagle-eyed fans highlighting a number of perceived slights between the two megastars.
Now it seems we finally have proof that “beef” is not just an imagination. “Industry insiders are not blind to the fact that Taylor is weaponizing her fans and that Billie appears to be the latest victim of that campaign,” a source close to Eilish exclusively told DailyMail.com.
The explosive claims come after Swift, 34, and Eilish released new albums in recent months, sparking a fierce battle for the top of the charts and heated online disputes between their respective fan bases.
Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ has maintained the number one position on the Billboard album chart since its release on April 19.
However, some critics have suggested that Swift has only partly kept it there by periodically releasing variant and extended editions to keep sales and streaming numbers up.
In total, Swift has released more than 20 TTPD variants.
The fact that she released two of these ‘special’ editions on the same day that Eilish released her new album ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ last month was perceived by many as an attempt to trample on the competition.
The Tweet implied that Swift had scheduled similar releases in the past to hinder artists like Katy Perry and SZA.
But it’s not just Swift’s perception of playing with charts that seems to have unsettled Eilish.
In March, Eilish attacked “wasteful” artists who make “40 different vinyl packages (…) just to keep you buying more.”
Swift currently has 11 different vinyl albums for sale on her site, and although Eilish insisted she wasn’t “pointing fingers at anyone,” fans quickly made the link, with many Swifties attacking her for the statement.
None of this was helped by additional comments Eilish made last month, first criticizing songs that are obviously directed at an individual as “frustrating” (Swift is known for her many breakup and “diss” songs directed at her exes, haters and former friends). , and then saying that artists who performed ‘three-hour shows’, like Swift’s current Eras Tour, were ‘literally psychotic… nobody wants that.’
The explosive claims come after Swift, 34, and Eilish released new albums in recent months, sparking a fierce battle for the top of the charts.
Swift released two ‘special’ editions of her album on the same day Eilish released her new album ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ last month. Many perceived it as an attempt to trample on the competition.
For her part, sources close to Eilish suggest that she does not want a public breakup and is now the victim of unwarranted online attacks from Swift’s fans.
“Billie doesn’t want anything to do with a ‘fight,’ she’s not interested in the drama and hasn’t done anything to provoke it at all,” a source said. “At a time when Billie is doing so well, there is no reason for her to get involved in any kind of matter.”
Some have suggested that conflicts between the pair actually date back to January 2022, when Blur frontman Damon Albarn criticized Swift in an LA Times interview, cheekily stating that she “doesn’t write her own songs” and comparing her with Eilish, who said he was a “really interesting songwriter.”
Albarn later apologized, but not before Swift responded, saying her “hot opinion is completely false and VERY harmful.”
The argument could have ended there, but, in April 2022, Eilish made a surprise move that may have angered Swift when she invited Albarn to join her on stage during her headlining performance at Coachella.
While they were performing, an unidentified man, who some fans claimed was Eilish’s brother Finneas O’Connell, could be heard on the livestream of the concert saying, “Taylor Swift is suing us.”
Certainly, Swift is known for her long-standing feuds and grudges, from Kim Kardashian to Scooter Braun to Karlie Kloss.
“This isn’t the first time Taylor’s fans have been used to tear someone down when their success is seen as encroaching on hers,” an Eilish source said.
‘If she’s really as nice a girl as she wants everyone to believe, why doesn’t she speak up and stop her fans from attacking people on her behalf?’
Swift and Kardashian have traded blows for about 15 years, after Swift first got into a fight with Kim’s then-husband, Kanye West, in their infamous onstage dispute at the 2009 VMA Awards.
Swift clearly hasn’t moved on, deliberately including a ‘diss’ song on TTPD titled ‘thanK you aIMee’ (the capitalized letters notably spell ‘Kim’).
Certainly, Swift is known for her long-standing feuds and grudges, from Kim Kardashian (pictured) to Scooter Braun and Karlie Kloss.
“This isn’t the first time Taylor’s fans have been used to tear someone down when their success is seen as encroaching on hers,” an Eilish source said. (Pictured: Swift with Kloss in 2014).
Swift’s 2014 hit ‘Bad Blood’ is widely believed to be about Katy Perry, written after the pair allegedly fell out over Perry ‘stolen’ Swift’s backing dancers.
His ongoing battle with Scooter Braun is no secret either. Braun bought Swift’s masters in 2019 in a deal that she said she had no control over, even when she was told she herself couldn’t outbid Braun.
Swift has publicly condemned Braun on several occasions, even using an acceptance speech at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards to criticize him as “the definition of toxic male privilege in our industry.”
And then there’s her fight with her former best friend, supermodel Karlie Kloss.
The exact details of why the relationship collapsed have never been clear, but Kloss appeared to move out of Swift’s $50 million New York home, where she had her own bedroom, sometime in early 2018, and Swift also moved out. he missed Kloss’s wedding on that date. year.
Whoever Swift is rowing with, one thing’s for sure: her fans will have her back.
The ‘Swifties’ descended on Kloss after the model shared a photo of her and Katy Perry in February 2018, filling her Instagram comments section with hundreds of rat emojis.
“All Taylor needs to do is encourage (her fans) to spread positive messages instead of trolling and tearing others down,” an Eilish source said.
So will Swift take the advice…or write another diss song?
