Though Charli XCX later claimed there were “no diss tracks” on brat, the theories were writing themselves. “Von dutch kind of is, but the other tracks in question aren’t diss tracks,” Charli said in a video. “They are really just about how it’s so complicated being an artist, especially a female artist, where you are pitted against your peers but also expected to be best friends with every single person constantly. And if you are not, you are deemed a bad feminist.”
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Now, Swift has been asked about the feud, and, of course, she expertly brushed it off. “I’ve been blown away by Charli’s melodic sensibilities since I first heard Stay Away in 2011,” Swift told New York Magazine. “Her writing is surreal and inventive, always. She just takes a song to places you wouldn’t expect it to go, and she’s been doing it consistently for over a decade. I love to see hard work like that pay off.”
For her part, Charli XCX said in her own interview that “people are gonna think what they want to think,” likewise brushing off speculation. “That song is about me and my feelings and my anxiety and the way my brain creates narratives and stories in my head when I feel insecure and how I don’t want to be in those situations physically when I feel self-doubt,” she added.
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Prior to the interview, Charli had already slammed online posts trying to pit her against Swift. “Can the people who do this please stop. Online or at my shows. It is the opposite of what I want and it disturbs me that anyone would think there is room for this in this community. I will not tolerate it,” she posted on IG stories in June, resharing a video of fans at a Charli-inspired DJ set in Brazil who were chanting, “Taylor is dead!”