The latest victim on
's long and unforgiving list of rivals is none other than celebrity gossip correspondent Perez Hilton. He says that he was suspended from Twitter after posting a picture of a rumoured tracklist for the musician's new album Reputation.
He posted a photo of someone holding a copy of Reputation – which is only due to come out on Friday – revealing a could-be tracklist. Perez quickly received a "take-down notice" from Swift's team, and soon after was suspended from Twitter entirely.
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Swift has been extremely secretive about the new album, at first entirely deleting all her social media posts from the "Old Taylor" in an over-the-top and excessively dramatic move, before releasing dribs and drabs of information and a few singles here and there in an effort to tease listeners about the new album.
While diehard Swifties are sure to be lapping it up, everyone
else is getting a little tired of Swift "throwing shade" and using her new songs to subtly "diss" people she's had beef with in the past (Kanye,
, Calvin Harris,
).
We get it – they did you wrong, and you just can't get over it no matter how much you whine and cry and add clever Easter eggs into your music videos.
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And now, Perez seems to have landed a spot on the Tay-tay hitlist.
In a 6-minute video posted to YouTube, Perez spoke about his suspension and slammed Swift and her management about how they reacted to his post about the album.
"Earlier today I was talking about many journalists who have felt bullied by the Taylor Swift machine," said Perez. "I had never felt that before, but I now am a victim of Taylor’s wrath."
He's referring to another
video he made about the vicious "Taylor Swift machine" who bullies other celebrities, thinks she's all that, and "hurts" her fans by not wanting to release her music on streaming services.
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Hilton's new video about the suspension caused by Swift involved a lot of exaggerated sighing and the 39-year-old dropping the phrase "lame as balls... that are on fire". Erm... righto. He said her team is being "very aggressive" and that he is very disappointed by the whole thing.
"I didn’t know if it was real or not," he said. "If it was real, who cares? It was a photo of a guy’s hand holding the back of the copy of the album."
"I posted it and then I got a takedown notice from Taylor’s label, then my Twitter account got suspended.
"The album comes out in two days, and you’re suspending me for promoting your album? I didn’t leak any freakin’ music, it’s a freakin’ tracklisting."
He went on to explain that it's legal as the post is protected under fair use because the content was deemed newsworthy.
"And to top it all off, like an hour after I was suspended for posting the tracklisting Taylor Swift post the tracklisting herself and I'm still suspended from Twitter."
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"I'm not mad at Taylor Swift directly, I just think the people at her label are making some really dumb decisions".
You can watch the video here if you
really
want to, but I would recommend doing as I did and tackling it at 2X speed.
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In any case, Hilton concluded that despite the monumental disappointment and the balls-on-fire situation, the Twitter suspension “will not disillusion [him] from Taylor Swift.” Yeesh, do what you will dude, but leave me the hell out of it. It's just too much drama.
