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In the ongoing feud between Taylor Swift and Katy Perry, it's becoming increasingly clear that there's no real winner. While Taylor has shaded Katy in interview after interview, her diss track 'Bad Blood' was miles more successful than Katy's recent attempt 'Swish Swish'; even though Katy is coming out on top just by discussing the feud and her limited part in it so openly. And in her latest move, Taylor's continuing to cut off her nose to spite her face, assuring mutually assured destruction for both parties with no one a winner. You'll remember that Taylor has been notoriously anti-Spotify and anti-streaming for a while, ever since she penned an open letter to the company back in November of 2014 on the eve of her 1989 album release. Back then, she told Yahoo: Since then, she's held firm against Spotify and even attacked Apple Music on its launch for not reimbursing artists who had their music listened to during a free trial period (Swift has since appeared in ads for Apple, suggesting the two are back on good terms). Despite the begging of her fans and a "love letter" Spotify wrote to her to win her back, Swift had apparently decided that she was better than streaming services; and judging by her net revenue last year, she wasn't wrong. But all that changed on Thursday night when TaylorNation, the Instagram page representing Swift's management team, made the following post: The significance of this won't be lost on Katy Perry fans, who'll know that for the past few months the newly cropped popstar has been teasing the release of her album Witness. Witness was released on exactly the same day, at exactly the same time as Taylor decided to revive her music on streaming services. And to rub salt in the wound even more, Swift later announced that all of her albums would be available for a reduced rate on iTunes, clearly in the hopes that a discount would help her albums outnumber Katy's new one in the pop charts. On the one hand, it's true that the RIAA did announce Swift's milestone just twelve hours before the post was made. On the other hand, it's an extremely unlikely coincidence that Swift's team just happened to organise for every single streaming platform to re-add Perry's music in just twelve hours. And its even more unlikely that none of Swift's handlers would have known about Katy's album release, especially given how much Katy's been talking about Taylor this album cycle. What are your thoughts on Swift's latest move? Is it an savvy power play, an obvious and petty trick or nothing but sheer coincidence? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

Amanda Bynes' breakdown is at this point completely legendary. Stretching over a roughly twelve month period from 2013 to 2015, the breakdown saw her rock long teal wigs and Blac Chyna facial dermals, plan to launch a rap career and tell an abundance of celebrities that they were ugly simply for mentioning her name. It also gave us one of the greatest tweets ever bestowed upon mankind with this beautiful message to rapper Drake: But since being hospitalised in October of 2014, Bynes has kept mum about exactly what was happening to her during that time. Her family released some press statements to let the public know that she was out of recovery and doing well, and Amanda herself returned to Twitter to announce that she had gone to college to study fashion. But we haven't heard from Amanda herself for around three years. Until now. Bynes sat down with Hollyscoop for an exclusive interview recently where she discussed how she's been, her future plans on getting back into acting, and yes, even that infamous tweet to Drake. It's amazingly nostalgic to see and hear Amanda back on our screens again, and it's great that she seems to be doing well. I have to say though, I'm saddened by how stiff and uncomfortable she seems on camera. It seems like the days of the bubbly, bright personality we saw in The Amanda Show are long gone. Instead, this Amanda is reserved, quiet and awkward, even if surprisingly honest and open about her time on drugs. I'm hoping that the more she gets back into the public realm the less nervous she'll seem, but I can't help but wonder if there's something going on with her medication as well. Check out the full interview below and let us know what you think!