--- title: Katy Perry on Taylor Swift Feud Interview description: Katy Perry is spilling even more tea about her feud with fellow pop princess Taylor Swift, who allegedly wrote 'Bad Blood' about her. canonical: https://time.com/4810732/katy-perry-on-taylor-swift-beef-interview/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-08T14:53:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:17.972Z og:title: Katy Perry Has a Lot More to Say About Her Taylor Swift Feud og:description: "No one has asked me about my side of the story" og:url: https://time.com/4810732/katy-perry-on-taylor-swift-beef-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8b5d2a8dd3b7f01/6988d0d0e76ad2935162dcf1/katy-perry-taylor-swift-beef.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2011 American Music Awards - Red Carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Katy Perry Has a Lot More to Say About Her Taylor Swift Feud twitter:description: "No one has asked me about my side of the story" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb8b5d2a8dd3b7f01/6988d0d0e76ad2935162dcf1/katy-perry-taylor-swift-beef.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'I'm Not Buddha.' 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 8, 2017 2:53 PM UTC  LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 20: Singers Taylor Swift (L) and Katy Perry arrive at the 2011 American Music Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on November 20, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/AMA2011/WireImage) LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 20: Singers Taylor Swift (L) and Katy Perry arrive at the 2011 American Music Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on November 20, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/AMA2011/WireImage) Lester Cohen/AMA2011—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 8, 2017 2:53 PM UTC [Katy Perry](http://time.com/4762550/met-gala-katy-perry-red-dress/) isn’t finished [spilling the gossip on her feud with Taylor Swift](http://time.com/4771017/katy-perry-bad-blood-response-new-album/). The “[Chained to the Rhythm](http://time.com/4668387/katy-perry-grammys-2017/)” singer, [who just performed at Ariana Grande’s One Love Manchester concert](http://time.com/4805289/katy-perry-manchester-dress/), recently opened up about the beef on a buzzy episode of [_Carpool Karaoke_ with James Corden where she revealed that the origins](http://time.com/4790154/katy-perry-taylor-swift-feud-carpool-karaoke/) of the feud were backup dancers. In [an interview with _NME_](http://www.nme.com) ahead of the release of her album _Witness_, Perry still had plenty more to say about the beef, starting with why she chose to talk about it at all. “Well, \[_Late Late Show_ host\] James Corden makes me and the whole world feel very safe,” Perry said. “No one has asked me about my side of the story, and there are three sides of every story: one, two, and the truth.” For Perry, it was important to speak up about the situation. “I mean, I’m not Buddha — things irritate me,” she said. “I wish that I could turn the other cheek every single time, but I’m also not a pushover, you know? Especially when someone tries to assassinate my character with little girls \[her fans\]. That’s so messed up!” The feud between the pop princesses began over a [disagreement about backup dancers](http://time.com/4680749/best-celebrity-feuds/). Swift later hired Perry’s longtime collaborator Max Martin to help write “Bad Blood,” the quintessential song about frenemies that’s long been associated with Swift and Perry’s feud. Perry told _NME_ that while some including Perry felt the song was a shot at the _Firework_ singer, she didn’t feel a need to interfere with this move. “I can’t speak for \[Max\], but he didn’t know \[who ‘Bad Blood’ was about\],” she said. “I’m not supposed to tell him what he can and can’t do. I’m very fair; I’m super-duper fair and I’m not one of those people who’s like, ‘You can’t do that because I don’t like that person’. Just, like, you do you, make your own choices… I’m not his mother.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4810732/katy-perry-on-taylor-swift-beef-interview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4810732/katy-perry-on-taylor-swift-beef-interview/"},"headline":"'I'm Not Buddha.' 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