Taylor Swift fans slammed FKA Twigs for an Instagram video that bore a striking resemblance to an infamous scene in Kanye West's Famous video.
In the infamous scene from the 2016 music video, Kanye lay shirtless in bed next to the dolls of several topless people, including Taylor.
He was hit with slurs for the music video, but also for the song's provocative lyrics, in which he said of Taylor, “I made that b**** famous.”
FKA Twigs posted a new Instagram album this week looking back on her year, including her trips to locations like Berlin, Ibiza, Prague and Big Sur.
Her retrospective included footage walking across a white bed where FKA Twigs lay next to some of her friends, including the musician Eartheater.
Taylor Swift fans slammed FKA Twigs for an Instagram video that bore a striking resemblance to an infamous scene in Kanye West's Famous video
In the infamous scene from the 2016 music video, Kanye lay 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 locations like Berlin, Ibiza, Prague and Big Sur
Her retrospective included footage walking across a white bed where FKA Twigs lay next to some of her friends, including the musician Eartheater.
The clip was eerily reminiscent of the shot in Kanye's Famous video, which showed dolls of various undressed people in bed next to him.
One of them was Taylor, with whom Kanye had feuded 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 music flops they jump on Taylor's influence… fka twigs is so weird for this.”
'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 drag others down to her level. She knows how much that hurt Taylor. She is the type to pour SALT into wounds and she enjoys seeing people hurt,” the X user sensationally claimed.
Some of the other X posts even focused on FKA Twigs' allegations that her ex-boyfriend Shia LaBeouf physically abused and sexually assaulted her.
“FKA twigs making fun of Taylor Swift's revenge porn situation with Kanye while advocating against sexual assault is so hypocritical,” one wrote.
“Really rich on Twigs for making fun of something that caused Taylor so much stress and trouble, yet she had no problem destroying Shia Labeouf's career and getting his wife blacklisted,” another snapped .
Some social media users took aim at FKA Twigs for her new video, including one who wrote: 'When music flops they jump on Taylor's influence…fka twigs is so weird for this'
Some social media users jumped to FKA Twigs' defense, while others sat back and marveled at the feud between the two singers' fanbases
Shia's wife Mia Goth has not publicly claimed she has been banned from the industry – and 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 someone who wrote on to acquire power. from Taylor and to rule out some 'revenge porn'.
Famous, which was included on Kanye's album The Life OF Pablo, featured his unforgettable joke to Taylor: “I made the b**** Famous.”
The line was a reference to the explosive start to their feud in 2009, when Kanye took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards and cut off Taylor's acceptance speech to praise Beyoncé.
When Famous was released in 2016, Taylor and her Swifties were quick to take offense, prompting Kim to join the fray.
Kim publicly denounced Taylor as a “snake” for claiming she had no idea Kanye would use the line, “I made that motherfucker famous.”
At that point, Kim leaked a video of Kanye's phone call to Taylor in which he told her his lines: “I feel like Taylor and I might still have sex.”
The video suggested that Taylor had lied because she wasn't warned about the song, and as a result she received a huge public backlash.
The feud began in 2009, when Kanye took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards and cut Taylor's acceptance speech to praise Beyoncé.
It is thought that her abuse on social media is part of the reason Taylor subsequently took a break from music.
She made her big return in 2017 with her chart-topping song Look What You Made Me Do, whose music video included several scathing references to the 'Kimye' feud.
At one point, Taylor mimes shooting a gun while sitting in a bathtub full of diamonds — in a moment believed to be a joke about Kim's Paris robbery, when the reality star was thrown into the tub bound and gagged as the burglars stole her jewelry confiscated.
In early 2020, as COVID-19 lockdowns swept America, the feud bubbled up again when a more extensive video emerged of Kanye's phone conversation with Taylor about Famous.
Over the course of the video, Kanye fails to consult Taylor about the use of the word “b***h” or the suggestion that he “made her famous.”
The Swifties seized on the video as proof that their idol had been vindicated, and the uproar on social media became so intense that Kim responded.
Kim accused Taylor of “lying” and blasted her for deciding to “rekindle an old altercation — which feels very selfish right now considering the suffering millions of real victims are currently dealing with.”
She claimed, “To be clear, the only problem I ever had with the situation was that Taylor lied through her publicist, who stated that 'Kanye never called to ask for permission…' They spoke clearly, so I showed you all that. No one has ever denied that the word “b****” was used without her consent.
Taylor's feud with Kim and Kanye included multiple comments about them in her 2017 music video for her 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 bathtub full of diamonds – in a moment believed to be a joke about Kim's Paris robbery
Kim added, “At the time they spoke, the song wasn't fully written yet, but as anyone can see in the video, she manipulated the truth of their actual conversation in her statement when her team said she “refused and warned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message.”
She doubled down: “The lie was never about the word b****, it was always about whether or not the call was made and the tone of the conversation.”
However, at the time of the original Famous controversy in 2016, a spokeswoman for Taylor had told a very different story.
“Kanye did not ask for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single Famous on her Twitter account. She refused and warned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message,” she explained. 'Taylor was never informed of the actual lyrics: “I made that b**** Famous.”