Taylor Swift's Reaction to Katy Perry's 'Both Kind and C---' Quip Goes Viral: Watch the Candid Moment

Mar. 15, 2025

Katy Perry (left) and Taylor Swift (right) at the 2024 VMAs.Photo:Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty; Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty

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Perry, 39,received the Video Vanguard Awardon Wednesday, Sept. 11 , and in her acceptance speech, quipped that the LGBTQ+ community had taught her “that you can be both kind and c—.”

Swift was seen dancing and singing along to Perry’s hits like “E.T.,” “Teenage Dream” and “California Gurls” as the Vanguard winner performed a medley of her biggest songs. The support from the crowd came months after Perrycaught an Eras Tour showin Sydney, Australia, in March.

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The “Firework” singer shared a photo of herself backstage with Swift during the Eras tour, along with video of herself singing along to “Bad Blood,” which is thought to be about their previously rocky friendship.

Perry opened up in 2020 about why she and Swift decided toput aside their differences, telling Howard Stern the two were now “super friendly.”

“What I’m so grateful for is we did get to make up publicly and got to be an example of redemption for young girls,” she continued. “I always wanted the best for her and now we can talk about the best we want for each other.”

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Swift headed into the VMAs as the most-nominated artist of the night, with 12 nominations, and went home with wins in the video of the year, best collaboration, song of the summer, artist of the year, best pop, best direction and best editing categories.

“There is a very clear reason why Post Malone is everyone in music’s favorite person,” she said onstage while accepting the best collaboration win. “You are so ridiculously talented, you are so versatile and you are the most down to earth person. Honestly so unfailingly polite, it has taken me forever to get him to stop calling me ma’am.”

In response, Malone joked, “Yes, ma’am,” and said that Swift “is absolutely one of the most kind and talented people I’ve ever had the honor of knowing.”

source: people.com