Taylor Swift and Katy Perry's Complete Feud, Friendship Timeline

There may not be any more bad blood between Taylor Swift and Katy Perry, but their longtime feud is definitely one for the history books!

The musicians were total besties for years — bonding over their love for cats and baking — before a nasty rift tore them apart. In 2013, the dancers on Taylor’s tour decided to leave and join Katy on the road, which started the minor feud. Then, when the Lover songstress debuted her single called “Bad Blood,” fans knew something was wrong.

“For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not. She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’ She did something so horrible. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business,” Taylor told Rolling Stone about the infamous song in 2014. “She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational — you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now, I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.”

Years later, the BFFs finally reconciled and decided to put their nastiness behind them. In June 2019, Taylor revealed that she and the “Swish Swish” songstress were finally on “good terms” after reconciling at a party.

“When we saw each other, it was just very clear to both of us that everything was different, that we had grown up, and that we had grown past allowing ourselves to be pitted against each other, and it just was very, very clear that we remembered how much we had in common,” Taylor told BBCRadio1 at the time. “So, both of us have been in a really good place for a while, but I don’t think either of us really knew if we were ever going to talk about it publicly.”

Since then, both musicians have buried the hatched on social media. After Katy welcomed her daughter, Daisy Dove, with Orlando Bloom in August 2020, Taylor sent a handmade blanket for the newborn.

“Hope it’s one she drags around for years ’til it becomes an unrecognizable shred that she keeps in her pocket as a teenager,” Katy captioned her Instagram post at the time.

Wondering how Taylor and Katy went from enemies to friends? Well, J-14 broke down their entire friendship timeline from the start. Scroll through our gallery for a full breakdown.

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December 2013

A little more than a year later, one of Taylor’s backup dancers revealed that he and a few others decided to leave the Red tour to join Katy’s Prism tour.

“Obviously we were with Katy for two and a half years, she’s like family to us,” he told The Examiner at the time. “So we were, like, ‘Absolutely.’ We weren’t really dancing in Taylor’s tour anyway, so I had got a little bored, and I really wanted to do a promo tour.”

October 2015

Taylor opened up about her Rolling Stone interview while chatting with GQ and addressed the meaning of “Bad Blood” even further.

“I never said anything that would point a finger in the specific direction of one specific person, and I can sleep at night knowing that,” she said. “I knew the song would be assigned to a person, and the easiest mark was someone who I didn’t want to be labeled with this song. It was not a song about heartbreak. It was about the loss of friendship.”

May 2017

Katy released the song “Swish Swish,” which appeared to be about their feud, and discussed the drama during “Carpool Karaoke.”

“There’s a situation. Honestly, it’s really like she started it, and it’s time for her to finish it,” the “Last Friday Night” singer explained. “It’s about backing dancers, there were three backing dancers. I tried to talk to her about it, and she wouldn’t speak to me.”

July 2020

Katy explained during an interview with Howard Stern that she and Taylor made up to set a good example for their young fans.

“What I’m so grateful for is that we did get to make up and we made up publicly to be an example of redemption,” she said. “It’s hard for young girls, growing up [with] cliques and high school and pettiness and all that stuff, so now we’re super friendly and I’ve always wanted the best for her, and we can talk about the best we want for each other.”