Taylor Swift laughs as she sings about forgiving Kanye West during The Eras Tour in Seattle – feud explained

Taylor Swift laughed off the idea of forgiving Kanye West during The Eras Tour show at Lumen Field in Seattle July. The pair have been in a longstanding feud which began at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

During the surprise song set of her three-and-a-half-hour long show, the singer performed an acoustic version of the song “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” from her album “reputation”. Swift sung the line ‘because forgiveness is a nice thing to do”, and laughed after before adding: “I can barely say it with a straight face”. The recorded version of the song also includes a laugh.

This marked the first time in five years that Swift had performed the track which is famously aimed at West. The feud began in 2009 when West jumped on stage to interrupt Swift’s acceptance speech for video of the year. West emerged on the stage and took the microphone from Swift, saying “Yo, Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all-time! One of the best videos of all-time.”

llowing the event the pair seemed to have moved on and were pictured together at multiple events. However, their feud came to a head when Kanye West released his 2016 song “Famous” in which West referred to Swift as a “B****”. Swift responded to the song saying she didn’t sign off on that which led West and his then wife Kim Kardashian to leak an edited conversation between the rapper and singer.