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Taylor Swift praised Charli XCX in a new interview. Here’s everything you need to know about their rumored feud.

Taylor Swift and Charli XCX perform during the 1989 World Tour in Toronto.

To Charli’s earlier point, she has found herself pitted against Swift since at least 2014, when both women released new albums: “Sucker” and “1989,” respectively.

In reviews and media coverage of her major-label debut, Charli was framed as “taking shots at pop’s elite,” aiming to “join the ranks of Taylor Swift, Lorde, and Iggy Azalea,” who were in the genre’s upper echelon (at the time). Both her artistry and sales figures were compared to Swift’s, with NPR noting that “Sucker” faced a commercial disadvantage by arriving in the wake of a “massive Taylor Swift album.” (Sound familiar?)

The following year, Charli performed a cover of Swift’s hit song “Shake It Off” for BBC Radio’s Live Lounge. Just a few months later, the two women squashed any lingering hints of tension when Charli made a surprise cameo during the 1989 World Tour.

Even though Charli had recently canceled her own tour dates, she joined Swift onstage in Toronto for a duet of “Boom Clap,” Charli’s biggest solo hit to date. Swift also shared a video of their performance on X (formerly Twitter), writing, “I LOVE YOU @charli_xcx !!!”

Taylor Swift hugs Camila Cabello and Charli XCX onstage during the Reputation Stadium Tour.

In 2018, Swift upped the anti by recruiting Charli (and Camila Cabello) as openers for the Reputation Stadium Tour.

“I can’t wait to see you, can’t wait to see them, really excited just about the whole thing in general,” Swift told fans in a filmed announcement.

Throughout the tour’s global run, Charli and Cabello would often join Swift onstage to perform “Shake It Off.”

During an appearance on the British talk show “Sunday Brunch,” Charli gushed about Swift as a kind person and “incredible businesswoman.”

“She makes us feel, like, so welcome. It feels like a girl gang on tour together. It’s really good,” Charli said.

Charli angered Swifties by comparing the ‘Reputation’ tour attendees to children

In 2019, one year after the Reputation Stadium Tour wrapped up, Charli reflected on the experience during an interview with Pitchfork.

“I’m really grateful that [Taylor] asked me on that tour,” Charli told the website. “But as an artist, it kind of felt like I was getting up onstage and waving to 5-year-olds.”

The comment was widely interpreted as Charli throwing shade at Swift and her fan base, prompting Charli to reiterate her gratitude in a statement shared on social media.

“In the printed version of this much wider conversation, my answers about this tour were boiled down into one kind of weird sentence,” Charli wrote. “Leading up to that tour I’d been playing a tonne of 18+ club shows and so to be onstage in front of all ages was new to me and made me approach my performances with a whole new kind of energy.”

Charli also said it was “brilliant” and “fun” to perform for Swift’s audience, adding, “There is absolutely no shade and only love here.”

Since the release of ‘Brat,’ Charli has condemned fans who start anti-Swift chants at her concerts

According to Billboard, “Brat” achieved the biggest debut week of Charli’s career, though some fans were still disappointed when it succumbed to “Poets” on the charts.

When Charli hit the road for a string of “Brat” concerts and DJ sets, she was met with a wave of anti-Swift energy, including the chant “Taylor is dead” from a crowd at Club Zig in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

After videos of the chant circulated on social media, Charli told her fans to stop immediately.

“can the people who do this please stop. online or at my shows,” she shared on her Instagram story on June 23, per Billboard. “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.”

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