Taylor Swift dropped her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department on April 19, 2024. Almost three months have passed, but Swifties everywhere are still meticulously analyzing every lyric to decipher their meanings and uncover the inspirations behind each track
While many songs appear to draw inspiration from Swift's relationships with Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy, and even Travis Kelce, fans have said they realized that certain tracks, including "Cassandra," delve into her feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
Many fans believe that the track includes references to Ye and his family, because of these lines: "They knew, they knew, they knew the whole time/ That I was onto something / The family, the pure greed, the Christian chorus line." These lines could point to the reality TV family's wealth and Ye's Sunday Service ceremonies.
Other lyrics seemingly referred back to the time a manipulated phone call surfaced that painted Swift as a liar. "In the streets, there's a raging riot / When it's 'Burn the bitch,' they're shrieking," she sang, later adding, "When the truth comes out, it's quiet."
"Cassandra is so sad because when Kanye and Kim were spreading lies about her everybody was ready to burn her alive and when real clip came out confirming she was telling the truth everybody pretended nothing happened and no one apologized," one fan tweeted about the song.
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To recap, the saga of the nearly two-decade-old feud began at the 2009 MTV VMAs, where Kanye famously interrupted Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video, asserting that Beyoncé should have won instead.
Although they seemed to patch things up temporarily, tensions flared again in 2016 when Kanye released "Famous," featuring a controversial lyric about Swift.
"I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous," Kanye rapped.
At the time, Kardashian asserted that Kanye had called Swift for approval prior to the song's release, a claim Swift's spokesperson later refuted, asserting that no such permission was sought.
The situation escalated dramatically in July 2016 when Kardashian released footage of a phone call purportedly showing Swift consenting to the lyric.
Swift countered in 2020, stating the call was illegally recorded and manipulated.
A longer version of the call leaked, confirming Swift's contention that she had not been informed about the lyric beforehand.
In her December 2023 Time Person of the Year interview, Taylor candidly discussed the impact of the leaked call, describing it as a "career death." However, she reflected that she had learned the futility of actively seeking to "defeat your enemies."
"You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out there to say to everyone that I was a liar," she said. "That took me down psychologically to a place I've never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn't leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn't trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard."
She concluded with a poignant statement: "Trash takes itself out every single time."
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