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Katy Perry really, really wants a reconciliation with Taylor Swift.
After talking about her feud with Taylor pretty much non-stop as she’s promoted her new album Witness, including a tell-all on Carpool Karaoke with James Corden, Perry has taken a more forgiving and sympathetic approach.
Responding to Swift’s brutally shady move of releasing her entire back catalogue on Spotify the same day as Katy dropped Witness (coincidence? Please!), she spoke of wanting a cease-fire instead of more warring with her long-time enemy.
“I don’t know. I can only do me,” she said on America’s Today program.
“All I need to say to [Taylor Swift] is I love her and God bless her on her journey.”
It comes days after she took the high-road regarding the feud in an interview with Ariana Huffington.
“I’m ready to let it go. Absolutely, 100 percent,” Perry said.
“I forgive [Swift], and I’m sorry for anything I ever did, and I hope the same from her, and I think it’s actually… I think it’s time,” she continued.
“There are bigger fish to fry, and there are bigger problems in the world.
“I love her and I want the best for her, and I think she’s a fantastic songwriter, and like, I think that if we both, her and I, can be representatives of strong women that come together despite their differences, I think the whole world is going to go, like, ‘Yeah, we can do this.’
“Maybe I don’t agree with everything she does, and maybe she doesn’t agree with everything I do, but like… I really, truly, want to come together, and in a place of love and forgiveness, and understanding and compassion,” Perry finished.
Katy, whose new track Swish Swish reads like a response to Taylor’s Bad Blood song about her, couldn’t speak any more plainly about her wanting to make peace with Swift.
But with Taylor believed to be working on a new album, and no doubt channeling the feud for song-spiration, it might be too soon to reconcile just yet.
