Taylor Swift fans are mad Selena Gomez wore Kim Kardashian's new shapewear line
Tuesday's Game of Thrones news isn't the only breaking story about epic, globe-spanning political rivalries: Taylor Swift fans are mad at Selena Gomez for a recent Instagram post in which she praised SKIMS, the new shapewear line by Kim Kardashian.
The problem, per E! Online, stems from a longstanding enmity between Swift and Kardashian and Kardashian's husband Kanye West, which would require a Tolstoy-esque epic to explain in full but essentially boils down to "they don't like each other." In response to the haters, Gomez deleted the post and replaced it with a picture of her and Swift, adding — in what is not at all an insane overcorrection to some stupid criticism on the internet — "I would die for this one." Read more at E! Online.
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Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.