On Monday night, as promised, James Corden delivered a new Carpool Karaoke primetime special starring Katy Perry. Fresh off the release of her song “Swish, Swish,” Perry has been at the center of renewed fascination regarding her relationship—or, more specifically, her long-running beef—with Taylor Swift. (Perry claims the song is a message against bullying in general, but it sure sounds a response to Swift, who famously is rumored to have written Bad Blood about Perry.) 
 
 During the Late Late Show special, Corden dutifully asked about the feud—and Perry happily delivered a narrative from which we’re guessing Swift would very much like to be excluded. 
 
 “I want to talk to you about some famous beef,” a chipper Corden offered. “Because there’s Taylor beef . . . When are we going to clear that beef up?” 
 
 Perry could have demurred, as she has in the past. Instead, she responded straightforwardly to Corden: “Honestly, it’s really like, she started it, and it’s time for her to finish it.” 
 
 Carpool Karaoke might be fun and games for viewers, but for several celebrity guests, it’s also served as a pit stop on an obviously well-planned P.R. tour. Consider, for instance, Justin Bieber’s first Carpool Karaoke, which helped redeem him ahead of Purpose, an album designed to rehabilitate his public image. (It was not, in fact, too late to say “Sorry.”) Even when Michelle Obama got her freak on with Corden and Missy Elliott, she took a few beats in between grooves to talk about her “Let Girls Learn” initiative. It’s unclear whether Corden asked Perry about the Swift beef because of her new song, or if he was externally nudged to do so. But either way, Perry got her message across. 
 
 As Perry confirmed—with a “Can you believe this?” air—on Monday, the feud was spurred by rumors that Swift was angry at Perry for poaching some of her back-up dancers. Since then, it’s been an ongoing parade of shady tweets and thinly veiled dis tracks. But according to Perry, the whole thing was a misunderstanding—one she tried to clear up. Swift, she told Corden, was the one who refused to communicate. 
 
 “I tried to talk to her about it, and she wouldn’t speak to me,” Perry said on Carpool Karaoke. When Corden tried to confirm that Perry had reached out via phone call, Perry continued: “I do the right thing any time that it feels like a fumble. It was a full shutdown, and then she writes a song about me, and I’m like, O.K., cool, cool, cool, that’s how you want to deal with it? Karma! But what I want to say is that I’m ready for that B.S. to be done. Now, there is the law of cause and effect. You do something, there’s going to be a reaction, and trust me, Daddy, there’s going to be a reaction.” 
 
 “I find it weird when you call me ‘Daddy,’“ Corden replied. Then, Perry adopted a familiar line of argument: “It’s all about karma, right? I think personally that women together, not divided, and none of this petty bullshit, women together will heal the world.” 
 
 Swift, too, has adopted the language of feminism to deflect perceived slights in the past. But platitudes aside, until Swift shoots Perry a text to end this fight, we’re guessing there are probably a few more musical subtweets on the horizon. 
 
 Do you have what it takes? 
 
 Test your knowledge of the Seven Kingdoms with Vanity Fair ’s Game of Unknowns. 
 
 Make your predictions ||||| Katy Perry admitted that she hopes to finally end her long-simmering beef with Taylor Swift. "I'm ready to let it go. Absolutely, 100 percent," Perry said. 
 
 Related Katy Perry Vs. Taylor Swift: Pop Stars' Beef History Explained From stolen dancers to passive aggressive tweets, here's a look back at the source of the alleged "Bad Blood" 
 
 The singer's comments came during a conversation Saturday with Arianna Huffington that featured on Perry's weekend-long YouTube live stream session in support of her new album Witness. 
 
 "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," Perry said of the feud (via Entertainment Tonight). 
 
 
 
 "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.'" 
 
 The singer's long feud – which reportedly began in 2012 when Perry poached Swift's backup dancers to join her own tour – resulted in songs like "Bad Blood" and Witness' "Swish Swish," but neither artist spoke about the beef until Perry recently opened up about the Swift rift. 
 
 "I'm not Buddha – things irritate me," Perry said in a recent interview. "I wish that I could turn the other cheek every single time, but I'm also not a pushover, you know? Especially when someone tries to assassinate my character with little girls. That's so messed up!" 
 
 The latest chapter in the feud came when Swift ended her years-long streaming service embargo the moment Perry's Witness was released digitally, a move that Swift's reps said was purely coincidence. 
 
 On Saturday, Perry seemed determined to end the pop stars' beef. "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 said. 
 
 The pop star dedicated a portion of her live stream to airing a therapy session with Dr. Siri Singh, wherein she talked about dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts. "I feel ashamed that I would have those thoughts, feel that low and that depressed," Perry said in reference to the lyrics from her 2013 Prism ballad, "By the Grace of God." 
 
 "You can be right or you can be loved," she added. "I just want to be loved." 
 
 Perry got a visit from pal James Corden on Sunday, and the Carpool Karaoke host was able to get the pop star to open up on a different topic: her exes. In a game of "Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts," Corden gave Perry the option of either eating a thousand-year-old egg or ranking three of her exes based on their performance in bed. 
 
 After playing coy for a bit, Perry finally acquiesced, naming Diplo as the least impressive, Orlando Bloom as her second-place pick, and John Mayer as the top contender. "They're all amazing lovers and I would have sex with all of them after I got out of this place!" she made sure to note. ||||| In the three years since 1989 dropped, a lot has happened in Taylor Swift's life: She dated and broke up with Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston; feuded with Kimye and Katy Perry; and was called out for seemingly failing to support her own supposed feminist beliefs during the 2016 election. It's possible her new album, Reputation, will address some of those moments. It's also possible that Reputation could be Swift's apology album, a chance for her to address who she is — flaws and all — without placing the blame on anyone else. After all, Swift's been criticized for "playing the victim" in feuds with other celebrities, using her music to go after other artists who attack her good reputation. But Swift's new single "Look What You Made Me Do" isn't an apology to anyone, instead, she's up to her same old tricks, letting an enemy know karma is going to get them. 
 
 Already, fans have guessed that "Look What You Made Me Do" is about Kimye, and with lines like "I don’t like your little games / Don’t like your tilted stage," it's easy to see why. But, whether it's about them or not, listening to Swift's new track it's obvious she hasn't learned a damn thing from any of the "feuds" she's been a part of. 
 
 Swift has once again cast West as the villain in her story, using the experience to let the world know that despite this evil person trying to knock her down, she picked herself up. 
 
 The single offers up a new sound, one that is a bit darker than what we've previously heard from Swift. Only a bit darker, though, being that her meanest comeback is "I don't like you." The song's message is more reminiscent of "Shake It Off" than a solid diss track. 
 
 Here she sings, "Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time" without bothering to even question if she played a role. In her mind (at least in these lyrics that we've waited three years for), she is completely innocent, which is why she's more than happy to see this enemy of hers fall. In fact, she's counting on it because revenge is sweet and karma is real. 
 
 The world moves on, another day, another drama, drama 
 
 But not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma 
 
 And then the world moves on, but one thing's for sure 
 
 Maybe I got mine, but you'll all get yours 
 
 It's not a surprising take from Swift, who once sang "there's nothing I do better than revenge," but at this point it just feels old. This is how Swift always responds to criticism; she constantly pushes the narrative that something has been done to her. She is always the one being wronged. Even the chorus — "Look what you made me do" — tries to deflect the blame onto anyone else but herself through repetition, if nothing else. 
 
 "Look What You Made Me Do" is just another "poor me" song disguised as an empowerment anthem. But, there's nothing powerful about not knowing when to take responsibility for your actions. Sooner or later, it would be good for Swift to learn that. Who knows, it may even improve her reputation. ||||| Katy Perry is ready to "let it go." 
 
 During a conversation with Arianna Huffington, live streamed to promote her new album Witness, on Saturday, the 32-year-old singer opened up about her feud with Taylor Swift, revealing that she thinks "it's time" for the two to make amends. 
 
 
 
 WATCH: Katy Perry Slams Taylor Swift for 'Trying to Assassinate My Character': 'That's So Messed Up' 
 
 "I'm ready to let it go. Absolutely, 100 percent," Perry expressed. "I forgive her, 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." 
 
 "There are bigger fish to fry, and there are bigger problems in the world," she continued. "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 just... I really, truly, want to come together, and in a place of love and forgiveness, and understanding and compassion," Perry said. 
 
 Though Perry dated Swift's ex-boyfriend, John Mayer, in 2012, their feud supposedly started when Perry hired backup dancers from Swift's tour years ago. Swift then hired Perry's longtime songwriter, Max Martin, to help write her 2014 hit, "Bad Blood." 
 
 
 
 WATCH: Taylor Swift Puts Her Entire Catalog Back on Streaming Services -- Right When Katy Perry's New Album Drops 
 
 During the "Roar" singer's live stream on Saturday, she shared that she doesn't "want to be held" to her feud with Swift anymore. 
 
 "God bless her on her journey," Perry stated. "I want to operate in a positive, kind space. I want to be an example of kindness, compassion, love, and I forgive and forget." 
 
 "That wasn't easy for me. I think everybody knows that wasn't easy for me. But it's fine," the singer confessed. "I want to let it go. I really want the best for every person." 
 
 Perry first opened up about her and Swift's rivalry during her appearance on James Corden's Carpool Karaoke. See more in the video below. ||||| Photo: Big Machine Records/GMA/Twitter 
 
 Apparently there are things that even Taylor Swift can’t shake off. As demonstrated by “Look What You Made Me Do,” the first lead single for her upcoming Reputation, the former country star and current pop behemoth has spent no small amount of time brooding on the hit her reputation took in summer 2016 when her statement that she had never given Kanye West permission to talk about her on his Life of Pablo single “Famous” was belied by Kim Kardashian West’s release of a recorded conversation between Swift and West in which she, well, gave Kanye permission to talk about her on “Famous.” If Swift hasn’t been thinking constantly about revenge since then, there’s no indication of it on “Look What You Made Me Do,” whose lyrics linger, then linger further, on the damage she’s suffered. 
 
 It’s grievous. She herself openly admits that it was fatal. “I rose up from the dead,” Swift sings in the pre-chorus; the bridge concludes with her announcement that the old Taylor can no longer be heard “because she’s dead.” Pop music is never not repetitive, but Swift’s repetitions, for the first time ever in her career, sound wearying instead of catchy. She talks about a revenge list, then talks again about revenge: “Maybe I got mine, but you’ll all get yours.” True, the threats could sound convincing with the right delivery — anything can sound ominous with the right delivery. But Swift’s lines start out wrapped in a melodic cadence that (matched with production that manages the neat trick of being both lurching and insubstantial) can only be described as “Disney-villain karaoke,” leaving it only when she broods monotonously in spoken word. 
 
 I don’t trust nobody and nobody trusts me 
 
 I’ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams. 
 
 For all the serpent-themed hype leading up to the launch of the song, Swift’s words lack venom, fangs, and smoothness. They have the consistency of wet flour, and their meaning could be converted into a series of impotent hisses without any loss in translation. She claims to have gotten harder, but only comes off as brittle; she says that defeat made her smarter, but sounds if she’s endlessly smarting. It’s impossible for anyone but her most die-hard fans (which are, to be fair, legion) to think that the song represents Taylor in a position of strength; more-casual listeners accustomed — over the course of five good to very good albums — to the high floor and medium ceilings of Swift’s compositions will be appalled at the depth to which she’s fallen. As far as her archnemeses Kim and Kanye go, it’s completely impossible to imagine them doing anything but laughing, hard, at “Look What You Made Me Do.” They’ve “made” Taylor Swift release the worst music of her career: What could possibly be less intimidating than that? 
 
 If the sinking, imploded sense that Swift’s song summons feels familiar to careful listeners, there’s a reason. Drake, too, was a pop juggernaut whose carefully constructed public image was damaged enough by a prolonged feud with a boisterous rap artist that he ended up making a mistrust-laced collection that signaled a decline from the total prominence he formerly enjoyed. “Look What You Made Me Do” looks to be to Taylor what “Summer Sixteen” was to Drake last year: a song heralding an upcoming album (11 weeks prior to release for Swift, 13 for Drake) whose scant handful of decent lines (her drama/karma couplet is nice enough) is saddled with anesthetic delivery and an indefensibly corny hook (Drake, if you’ll recall, was “looking for reveeeenge”). Judging solely from its lead single, Reputation already has the potential to be Taylor Swift’s Views: a collection whose stature as a commercial juggernaut fails to overshadow its more permanent character as a creative debacle. Recent history doesn’t have to repeat itself, but if it does, there’s no way to say that she didn’t have fair warning. ||||| Calvin Harris is still at it. The DJ-producer returned to Twitter on Thursday, July 14, after going off on ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift yesterday. 
 
 In response to ongoing chatter about the feud, the “This Is What You Came For” producer (or should we be calling him a songwriter now too?!) tweeted two different photos of men with spoons covering their eyes. “Really me,” he added alongside one image, which he later deleted. 
 
 The photos seemingly correspond with Vine star Brandon Bowen’s viral “blocking out the haters” video. In Bowen’s July 2014 clip, which has garnered more than 2 million views, the YouTuber places spoons over his eyes and tells the camera: “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t see you there. I was busy blocking out the haters.” 
 
 In case you missed it, the internet blew up after Harris went HAM on Swift for allegedly trying to make him “look bad” after her rep confirmed that Swift did indeed write his hit track with Rihanna, “This Is What You Came For.” 
 
 “I wrote the music, produced the song, arranged it and cut the vocals though,” Harris tweeted on Wednesday, July 13. “And initially she wanted it kept secret, hence the pseudonym. Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage though.” 
 
 He continued: “I figure if you’re happy in your new relationship you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down for something to do,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet that was liked almost 3,000 times within half an hour. “I know you’re off tour and you need someone new to try and bury like Katy [Perry] ETC but I’m not that guy, sorry. I won’t allow it. Please focus on the positive aspects of YOUR life because you’ve earned a great one. God bless everyone have a beautiful day.” 
 
 As previously reported by Us, Swift blindsided the DJ by cozying up with new beau Tom Hiddleston just two weeks after ending things with Harris. Swift, who is busy galavanting around the world with Hiddleston, has yet to respond to his tweets and was last seen shopping solo in Gold Coast, Australia. 
 
 Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics and more delivered straight to your inbox! 
 
 Want stories like these delivered straight to your phone? Download the Us Weekly iPhone app now!
– The Katy Perry-Taylor Swift feud is alive and well. Perry addressed it in late May on James Corden's Carpool Karaoke (indeed, Vanity Fair says the topic was "the centerpiece" of the segment), thanks in part to the fact that she just released a song, "Swish, Swish," that is rumored to be about Swift. (Sample lyric: "Your game is tired / You should retire / You're 'bout cute as / An old coupon expired / And karma's not a liar / She keeps receipts.") During the segment, Perry confirmed the feud's origins do indeed have to do with backup dancers who have worked for both singers, and insists she tried to talk with Swift about it but Swift responded by writing a mean song about her. Now, in a new interview with NME, Perry further explains why she decided to address the feud with Corden in the first place. "No one has asked me about my side of the story, and there are three sides of every story: one, two, and the truth," she says. She adds that, of course, she truly does want everyone to get along, "but, I mean, I’m not Buddha—things irritate me. I wish that I could turn the other cheek every single time, but I’m also not a pushover, you know? Especially when someone tries to assassinate my character with little girls. That’s so messed up!" Another interesting note on the feud: Swift, who pulled her music from streaming sites including Spotify in 2014, just put her entire catalog back on Spotify, Amazon, and Tidal on Thursday night—the same night Perry's new album, Witness, was released. Coincidence? TMZ thinks not, calling it possibly "the pettiest move—or just brilliant." Twitter went nuts over the move, with both Taylor fans and Katy fans weighing in, per Us.