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Although Kanye recently argued on Twitter that Taylor Swift approve his strange, misogynist Twitter lyric about her, Taylor set the record straight in her acceptance speech for Album of the Year. Surprise! She doesn't.
For some context, Kanye debuted his long-anticipated album, The Life of Pablo last Thursday at Madison Square Garden, which included a song with the lyric, "I feel like me and Taylor might have sex/Why? I made that bitch famous." He then responded to the immediate outrage that followed, tweeting, "I called Taylor and had a hour long convo with her about the line and she thought it was funny and gave her blessings."
If her Grammys speech is any indication however, that "hour-long convo" maybe never happened. Here's the Kanye-related segment of her speech:
"As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I wanna say to all the young women out there, there will be people along the way who will try to undercut your success, or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame, but if you just focus on the work, and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going, you'l look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world."
Watch it go down — note the emphasis on "fame" — in the video above.
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