TAYLOR SWIFT has enjoyed her recent commercial victories over her arch enemy KATY PERRY which culminated not long ago in a race between two music videos.
With Swift releasing her MV for
Look What You Made Me Do and Perry hers for
Swish Swish almost simultaneously, after two months Katy’s number of a mere 333 million views is up against Taylor’s overwhelming 733 million - more than twice of what Katy can boast of.
The real deciding factor in the two women’s ongoing battle over domination of the pop market was, however, the release of both their latest albums. Katy could hardly live down the voices of the press claiming that she ‘trembled with fear of Swift’s upcoming album release’ - largely perhaps because that may have been true...
...And finally it became fully apparent that Taylor has completely and utterly crushed her rival who eventually even had to refuse to speak about her own commercial defeat under Taylor’s overpowering success.
While Katy’s album struggled to sell 180,000 times within the first week Taylor, only shortly after, thoroughly swept it to one side with an unbelievable, for Perry demoralising, number of 1.05 million sales of her album in the same time after its release - Katy was reported to look ‘pale and sick’ after reading the reports of how Taylor had blown her pop album out of existence by achieving, with hers, five and a half times Katy’s modest sales, coming over Katy’s career like a steamroller.
Taylor has let herself be celebrated like a prize fighter after victory in the ring - and a fight in the ring is the only option Katy has left to stand up to her rival who has recently given her such an enormous defeat as a pop star and business woman.
When she challenged Taylor to a wrestling match and catfight in the ring Taylor accepted. She has never been able to stand up to Katy in a fight but has told her fans she’s prepared to take that barrier down to complete her universal victory.
Katy, however, has regained a great deal of confidence preparing for the fight. She reassured her fans that in the ring she is bound to have the last say in her battle with Taylor and to finally humiliate her by physically beating her as she has done before.
Now, the two rivalling women stand opposite each other in the ring, ready to grapple and fight like wildcats; the shorter but bustier girl from California stares at the tall blonde from Nashville and challenges Taylor to an arm wrestling match before the main fight to, in her words, ‘give her a taste of the strength of her arms in case she has forgotten’. Taylor replies without hesitation, derisively voicing her opinion that this time a test of strength will be to her advantage. Katy, however, laughs and mocks Taylor for having been beaten by her before - ‘and now you’ll crawl out of the ring on your hands and knees again!’
TAYLOR: 27 years, 5’10”, 57kg
KATY: 33 years, 5’7”, 59kg
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