We can’t shake off this hilarious shade.
As Ed Sheeran continues to post pictures from his former cell phone to his new Instagram account called Teddy’s Old Phone, the musician, 34, shared a snap from his longtime collaborator and friend Taylor Swift.
The picture shared via Instagram on April 2 was a close-up shot of Sheeran holding up a jar of jam from the Grammy winner, 35.
On the jar was a message from Swift with a play on what happened to her during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards at just 19 years old.
At the show, Swift ascended the stage to accept the award for winning Best Female Video for her song “You Belong With Me.” During her speech, Kanye West interrupted her, stole the microphone from her hand and stated, “I’ma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!”
At the time, Swift stood shocked on the stage, holding her Moonman, unsure of what to say. Beyoncé also looked stunned as she was seen saying, “Oh, Kanye!”
Swift’s jam jar to Sheeran, meanwhile, read: “Yo Ed—I’m really happy 4 you and I’m gonna let u finish but this is the best JAM OF ALL TIME.” The words were handwritten on the label affixed to the jar, which the singer signed as “—T.”
“It was pretty good jam,” Sheeran – who created the account in anticipation of his upcoming single “Old Phone” – captioned the shot.
Fans flocked to the comments section to share their love over the shade.
One follower commented, “SHES GOT JOKES,” while a second wrote, “Tay really used that line EVERYWHERE.”
“I REMEMBER THIS!!! ICONIC,” a third said.
“And I just now realised she literally shaded Knye she’s SO ICONIC,” another Swiftie chimed in, while a separate social media user stated, “She’s so funny 😂😂😂 Love you guys so much.”
Following the VMAs debacle, Swift spoke out about what occurred.
“I was standing onstage, and I was really excited because I had just won the award, and then I was really excited because Kanye West was on the stage,” she told reporters after the show, “and then I wasn’t so excited anymore.”
West, 47, and Swift then made amends until 2016 when the disgraced rapper released a song titled “Famous,” in which he raps, “I feel like Taylor Swift still owe me sex / Why? I made that bitch famous.”
A heated public debate ensued over whether Swift had given West permission to use the lyric.
“Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single ‘Famous’ on her Twitter account,” Swift’s rep told E! News at the time. “She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that bitch famous.’”
Kim Kardashian, who was married to West from 2014 to 2022, leaked snippets of West and Swift’s conversation about the song online in an attempt to prove that her husband was telling the truth.
But the musician stood her ground.
“Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that b–ch’ in his song? It doesn’t exist because it never happened,” Swift wrote on Instagram. “I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2009.”
“That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before,” she told TIME magazine after being named TIME’s Person of the Year in 2023. “I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.”
In April, West alleged that Swift was one of three reasons he’s been blocked from performing at the Super Bowl halftime show.
“I never was allowed to do the Super Bowl because of three moments,” he claimed in a since-deleted tweet. “George Bush don’t care about Black people. The Taylor Swift movement moment. Wearing a MAGA hat.”
Although Swift has put the past behind her, Sheeran, for his part, decided to explore his with fans.
Sheeran made his new Instagram account and single after he was inspired by the copyright lawsuit around his 2014 single “Thinking Out Loud.”
The estate of Marvin Gaye alleged at the time that “The A Team” artist had copied parts of Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.”
In November 2024, Sheeran was cleared by a jury of any wrong doing.
On Tuesday, the English songwriter explained what creating this account has done for him.
“It felt like a time capsule, a time of life that I was in, and living at that time in 2015,” Sheeran wrote. “Turning it on really spun me out, I found myself scrolling messages and conversations with people who are no longer here. … I found old photos of me with people I was so close to then, but we’ve lost touch since. The whole experience was such an emotional journey.”
The Grammy winner also posted memories of himself and his wife Cherry when they first started dating, a selfie with Harry Styles in 2012 at the London Olympics and a photo of the late Mac Miller.
“Old Phone” is the second single on Sheeran’s upcoming album titled “Play.”
