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To cite the tagline for the 2010 movie The Social Community, “You don’t get to 500 million buddies with out making a couple of enemies.”

Within the case of Taylor Swift, it’s extra like “you don’t amass a billion freakin’ followers with out buying a handful of haters.”

And because of her poison pen and sharp tongue, fairly a couple of of Tay’s enemies are fellow celebrities.

Nevertheless, her newest (allegedly) burned bridge has nothing to do together with her lyrics and every little thing to do together with her record-breaking album gross sales.

Ed Sheeran has been buddies with Taylor since they had been each beginning out as younger, up-and-coming singer-songwriters.

They’ve collaborated on songs collectively, and Tay has even described Ed as being like a second brother to her.

However the music biz is a aggressive one — particularly these days, when so few followers truly purchase music — and plainly Ed was not blissful about discovering himself sudden competitors with the trade’s largest star.

Has Ed change into Taylor’s latest hater?

In line with a brand new report from the Each day Mail, Ed was shocked to study that Taylor could be dropping The Lifetime of a Showgirl simply three weeks after the discharge of his most up-to-date album, Play.

“Ed takes these items actually significantly and thoroughly plans his album releases. He introduced his album with 4 months’ discover, however then Taylor introduced hers for simply two weeks after,” a supply tells the outlet.

“It left his group scrabbling to get as a lot consideration earlier than hers dropped.”

Ed, after all, isn’t the primary trade insider to accuse Taylor of utilizing shady techniques to make sure that no different artist matches her success.

“He was very a lot put out and understandably peeved. It’s not the primary time that Taylor has carried out one thing like this. She’s bought kind.”

The ‘Showgirl’ controversies proceed

Even followers have known as Taylor out for the countless variants of the brand new album, which appeared to serve no objective except for lining her pockets and artificially inflating her gross sales figures.

After which there are the controversies pertaining to the album’s lyrics.

Taylor appeared to punch down at Charli XCX on “Really Romantic,” a transfer that didn’t sit properly with some listeners.

In fact, Tay has an extended historical past of throwing shade at fellow artists, in order that didn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock.

However on “Opalite,” Swift appeared to take a shot at Kayla Nicole, an ex-girlfriend of Travis Kelce’s who’s by no means been concerned within the music trade.

So Sheeran may be pressured to maintain this explicit beef to himself — in spite of everything, the very last thing anybody needs is to be immortalized in one in all Taylor’s diss songs.