Taylor Swift Is Releasing Her Album on the 10th Anniversary of Donda West’s Death, and Black Twitter Is Not Pleased

Taylor Swift Is Releasing Her Album on the 10th Anniversary of Donda West’s Death, and Black Twitter Is Not Pleased

Before we begin, we should first acknowledge that all Beckies are the same. Maybe one day in the near future we will have a complete listing of the different kinds of Beckies, but for today, you should just know that according to the National Academy of White Women Arts and Sciences, Taylor Swift is rated as a Class C Becky, which is a midlevel ranking that corresponds to her milquetoast, passive-aggressive whiteness.

For comparison, if Swift were a drink, she’d be a room temperature Mr. Pibb. If Swift were a dance, she’d be the two-step. If Swift were sex, she’d be a dude with his T-shirt and socks on fucking in the missionary position while the woman has her eyes closed with her hands on his chest to stop him from “going too crazy.”

But for all her alabaster averageness, Swift sits in the Beckydom somewhere between Megyn Kelly and the white woman at your job who secretly complained to HR when you wore a Black Lives Matter T-shirt on casual Friday.

On Thursday, Taylor Swift released the first single from her expected-to-be-a-hit album Reputation. Although no one has heard it, it is expected to be another compilation of angst-filled songs calling out her ex-boyfriends, and tunes waxing rhapsodic about how hard it is for a young, blond, millionaire white woman to get ahead in the world.

Here’s the problem: The album will be released on Nov. 10, which is (probably not) coincidentally 10 years after of the death of nemesis Kanye West’s mother, Donda, to the exact day.

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Taylor Swift's Album Drops on 10th Anniversary of Death of Kanye's Mother

Taylor Swift drops album "Reputation" on anniversary of Death of Kanye West's mom.

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If you recall, Kanye and Taylor have a long history that dates back to Kanye interrupting Swift at the 2009 MTV Music Awards when she won Best Female Video over Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies.” I’d like to point out that no one even remembers which song Swift won the award for, while “If you like it, then you should’ve put a ring on it” has cemented itself in the mainstream cultural lexicon. Since then, Swift has called Kanye out for saying he “made that bitch famous” and then backpedaled after a video surfaced of a phone call in which she told him she didn’t have a problem with the song the lyric came from.

If you’re thinking “that’s kinda tasteless and petty,” of course, Black Twitter thought so, too, and of course, they let the world know:


Twitter screenshot via @jaboukie
But when she dropped her single, complete with segregated dancers and images eerily similar to Beyoncé’s “Formation,” Black Twitter had a field day with the photo that looked like it came from a Queen Bey tribute album called Unsweetened Lemonade.