{"id":344463,"date":"2026-03-17T21:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/344463\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:42:10","slug":"bruno-mars-says-he-did-not-diss-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/344463\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars Says He Did Not Diss Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift became hugely famous around the same time, and the two of them remain stadium-level megastars many years after most of their peers have faded away. Beyond that, though, Mars and Swift don&#8217;t honestly have that much in common. Their styles of pop music are radically dissimilar, and their careers haven&#8217;t overlapped much. As the photo above will attest, Swift once handed Mars a VMA and then towered over him while he accepted it, but beyond stuff like that, they&#8217;ve moved in different circles. Now that he&#8217;s getting ready to mount <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2484497\/bruno-mars-announces-stadium-tour-with-anderson-paak-leon-thomas-raye-victoria-monet\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">his own stadium tour<\/a>, Mars is in the unenviable position of insisting that he did not diss Taylor Swift. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, Bruno Mars tweeted this: &#8220;Taylor has always been supportive and kind to me. Only love over here.&#8221; Mars&#8217; tweet was in response to one from an account called Pop Flop, which posted this &#8220;Fans notice that Bruno Mars liked an Instagram reel hating on Taylor Swift for being &#8216;talentless&#8217;.&#8221; Along with that tweet, there was a screenshot, seemingly showing Mars liking a BTS fan-account tweet that said, &#8220;Genuinely how did she get famous? White privilege is crazy because imagine if an Asian was as talentless as her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taylor has always been supportive and kind to me. Only love over here. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bruno Mars (@BrunoMars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrunoMars\/status\/2033348000849027349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now: Bruno Mars probably did not like that Instagram post, or if he did, it was presumably a double-tap accident. The Instagram account that supposedly posted that note about Swift has seemingly disappeared, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/bruno-mars-clarifies-taylor-swift-stance-dissed-her-1236200265\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Billboard reports<\/a> that it &#8220;could not verify the screenshot.&#8221; Either way, it&#8217;s crazy to think that people are either monitoring Bruno Mars&#8217; Instagram likes that closely or that they&#8217;d bother making up that screenshot. No public figure, with the possible exception of Donald Trump, wants to be known as the one who thinks Swift is talentless. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift became hugely famous around the same time, and the two of them remain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-344463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}