Trending badgeTrendingPosted 1 hour agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down15 Times Celebs Have Responded To Extremely Shady Lyrics About ThemselvesTIL "Sweet Home Alabama" is a Neil Young diss track.by Kristen HarrisBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Famous singers' drama almost always comes out in their music, especially when there are other celebrities involved. Sometimes, the other party responds on social media, in an interview, or through a song of their very own. Paramount Pictures Here are 15 times celebs responded to shady lyrics about themselves: 1. THE CONTEXT: Before Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift were endgame, he was in a five-year on-and-off relationship with media personality Kayla Nicole. Allen Berezovsky / FilmMagic / Via Getty THE SONG: On her new album The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor seemingly referenced Kayla with these lines on "Opalite": "You couldn't understand it, why you felt alone / You were in it for real, she was in her phone / And you were just a pose / And don't we try to love love? / We give it all we got / You finally left the table, and what a simple thought / You're starving 'til you're not." Frazer Harrison / Getty Images Fans quickly linked the lyrics to resurfaced videos that Kayla posted while she was dating Travis. In the first since-deleted clip, he told her, "Just drink the wine so we can go." In the second clip, she told him she wouldn't have "to seek validation from a bunch of strangers on the internet" if "someone sometimes would pay [her] attention." Travis replied, "Oh, my god. Get off your phone. Get off your phone ... You're not even drinking your wine anymore, can we go?" Andrew D. Bernstein / NBAE via Getty Images THE RESPONSE: Kayla seemingly responded to the song with an aptly timed Instagram story post the day of its release. Per People, she reposted a clip from America's Next Top Model about not comparing yourself to others. UPA / Via instagram.com 2. THE CONTEXT: Many fans speculated that Charli XCX's 2024 song "Sympathy Is a Knife" was about her jealousy toward Taylor Swift, whom she previously opened for on the 2018 Reputation tour. Coming on the heels of Taylor's brief relationship with Matty Healy - who is bandmates and best friends with Charli's now-husband, George Daniel - lyrics included, "This one girl taps my insecurities, 'Cause I couldn't even be her if I tried / I'm opposite, I'm on the other side," and "Don't wanna see her backstage at my boyfriend's show / Fingers crossed behind my back, I hope they breakup quick." George Pimentel/LP5 / Via Getty THE SONG: In 2025, Taylor released "Actually Romantic," which many listeners interpreted as a dig at Charli. Lyrics included, "I heard you call me 'Boring Barbie' when the coke's got you brave / High-fived my ex, and then you said you're glad he ghosted me / Wrote me a song saying it makes you sick to see my face." Kevin Mazur / WireImage / Via Getty THE RESPONSE: Seemingly responding, Charli made an Instagram story post revealing that she was back in the studio. Charli XCX / Via Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/charli_xcx/?hl=en On her track-by-track breakdown for Amazon Music, Taylor said that "Actually Romantic" was "a song about realizing that someone else has kind of had a one-sided, adversarial relationship with you that you didn't know about." She said, "And all of a sudden they start doing too much and they start letting you know that actually, you've been living in their head rent-free, and you had no idea. It's presenting itself as them sort of resenting you or having a problem with you, but you take that and just accept it as love, and you accept it as attention and affection, and how flattering that somebody has made you such a big part of their reality when you didn't even think about this. It's actually pretty romantic if you really think about it." NBC / Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty Images 3. THE CONTEXT: In 2023, Taylor Swift - who's widely considered the "greatest songwriter of her generation" - and Matty Healy dated for around a month. The following year, she released The Tortured Poets Department, which featured several songs widely speculated to be about him. Robert Kamau / GC Images / Via Getty THE SONG: In the title track, Taylor seemingly references him with lines like, "You left your typewriter at my apartment / Straight from the tortured poets department, / You smoked, then ate seven bars of chocolate," and "You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith / This ain't the Chelsea Hotel, we're two idiots." Kevin Winter/TAS24 / Getty Images for TAS Rights Management THE RESPONSE: While headlining the 2025 Glastonbury Festival with his band, The 1975, Matty seemingly referenced Taylor's album as a whole. He said, "What this moment is making me realize is that I probably am the best. I'm probably the best songwriter of my generation. The best, what do we say... A poet, ladies and gentlemen, is what I am." Samir Hussein / Samir Hussein/WireImage / Via Getty 4. THE CONTEX