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alex@dontblamealex · Oct 3, 2025

The one sided feud Charli XCX has with Taylor Swift fully explained - a thread 🧵

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Summary

A thread documenting an apparent one-sided feud between Charli XCX and Taylor Swift, starting from a comment Charli made after opening for Taylor's tour. The conflict escalated through Charli's 2024 song "Sympathy is a Knife" expressing jealousy, with subsequent revelations suggesting Charli called Taylor 'boring Barbie' and had connections to Taylor's past relationships.

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    The one sided feud Charli XCX has with Taylor Swift fully explained - a thread 🧵

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    It first begins with Charli’s weird comment after Taylor let her open her tour.

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    Taylor keeps it classy, forgives and continues the support by adding her songs to a playlist

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    Fast forward to 2024, Charli releases “Sympathy is a knife”. The track reveals Taylor’s success makes her threatened and that she’s sick of seeing her.

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    On the release day of “Tortured Poets” she tweets the track’s name which basically confirms the speculation

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    This is where it gets interesting: M*tty Healy and Charli had dinner together. On his to-do list “break up with Margot Robbie” can be seen which first doesn’t make sense

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    But now Taylor reveals in her song “Actually Romantic” that Charli gave her the nickname ‘boring Barbie’ Barbie is famously played by Margot

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    The obsession is crazy 😭

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    George = her boyfriend

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    Notably Charli’s friend group has been shady for a while and now we know why