- Katy Perry has been feuding with Taylor Swift since 2013.
- Perry brought it up again on ABC's "American Idol" when a contestant said he looks up to Swift as an artist.
- Swift hasn't publicly paid attention to the feud since 2015.
Katy Perry took yet another swipe at Taylor Swift on ABC's "American Idol" Sunday night, reigniting a feud that had been dormant since August.
One of the judges, Luke Bryan, asked one of the contestants who he looks up to as an artist.
"I'm sorry for this, Katy," the contestant said. "Taylor Swift. I love Taylor Swift."
Perry, who is also a judge on the show, seemed fine with it. But she couldn't resist taking a jab.
"Oh, you don't have to be sorry at all. I love her, as a songwriter, as well," Perry said.
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Perry and Swift used to be close friends in the music industry, but they began warring in 2013. It all started when Perry apparently poached some of Swift's backup dancers for her own concert tour. Perry maintained that Swift knew the dancers had already planned to work for Perry when her tour was scheduled to start.
Instead of getting over it, the two escalated the dispute into a drawn-out feud. Swift released "Bad Blood" in 2014, a song and music video widely understood to be about how Perry backstabbed her. Perry released "Swish Swish" in 2017, widely understood as a diss track against Swift.
At that point, Swift began to project her image as being above the fray. She kept silent while Perry went on a press tour for "Swish Swish" and her album "Witness."
In August of 2017, she released "Look What You Made Me Do," her first single for her latest album, "Reputation." But the song was more about feuds in general than specific grievances against Perry.
Taylor Swift barely seemed to care about the feud. The last time she publicly addressed it was during press tours for her previous album, "1989," in 2014 and 2015.
This isn't the first controversial moment for Perry as an "American Idol" host. Last week, she came under fire for kissing a contestant without his permission.
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