{"id":480765,"date":"2026-03-17T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480765\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:09:09","slug":"bruno-mars-responds-after-taylor-swift-fans-accuse-him-of-dissing-her-in-liking-post-calling-her-talentless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480765\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars responds after Taylor Swift fans accuse him of dissing her in liking post calling her \u201ctalentless&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/bruno-mars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Mars<\/a> has responded after fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a> accused him of liking a post that dissed her.<\/p>\n<p>The post in question was seemingly a video of Swift performing on stage during one of the shows of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-features\/taylor-swift-eras-tour-end-impact-3820896\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Eras\u2019 tour<\/a> back in 2023 or 2024, with the caption describing her as \u201cTalentless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After seemingly \u201cliking\u201d the post made on X\/Twitter, some fans reached out to him on social media to criticise him for supporting a hate post about the 14-time Grammy winner. Then, in response, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/silk-sonic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silk Sonic<\/a> star reached out to clarify his stance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaylor has always been supportive and kind to me,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOnly love over here.\u201d<br \/>As highlighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/bruno-mars-clarifies-taylor-swift-stance-dissed-her-1236200265\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Billboard<\/a>, there is currently no sight of the original post on X, and the account that seemingly made the update has disappeared.<\/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>Mars recently released his first solo album in almost a decade, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/bruno-mars-the-romantic-review-3931926\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Romantic<\/a>\u2019, which was given a four-star review from NME.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaturally, there are moments when Mars indulges his fondness for musical gouda, but at this point, it\u2019s part of his brand,\u201d it read. \u201cThis total pro knows that a couple of these shimmering earworms could become modern standards like \u2018Just The Way You Are\u2019 and \u2018When I Was Your Man\u2019 with enough airplay and playlist spots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mars will be heading out on a world stadium tour later this summer and had to add 31 new dates to his 2026 world stadium tour due to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/bruno-mars-adds-31-new-dates-to-2026-world-tour-due-to-overwhelming-demand-buy-tickets-3923290\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201coverwhelming demand\u201d for tickets<\/a>. It also broke records by achieving the biggest single-day ticket sales in Live Nation North American tour history.<\/p>\n<p>Dates include six stops at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium in July, and joining the \u2018APT.\u2019 singer on the run will include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/silk-sonic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silk Sonic<\/a> collaborator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/anderson-paak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anderson .Paak<\/a> as DJ Pee.Wee. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/victoria-monet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Mon\u00e9t<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/raye\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raye<\/a> and Leon Thomas are lined up as additional support at select shows. <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Fbruno-mars-tickets%2Fartist%2F1466801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">You can buy your tickets here<\/a> (UK\/Europe) and <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/2862475\/264167\/4272?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Fbruno-mars-tickets%2Fartist%2F1466801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a> (North America).<\/p>\n<p>As for Swift, the singer dropped her latest album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/fans-react-to-taylor-swifts-the-life-of-a-showgirl-taylor-swift-youve-done-it-again-3896920\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018The Life Of A Showgirl\u2019<\/a> in October 2025 and it was later confirmed as being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/homegrown-artists-help-uk-recorded-music-market-grow-for-11th-consecutive-year-3920534\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the best-selling album of that year in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, she has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-becomes-youngest-woman-to-be-inducted-into-songwriters-hall-of-fame-3924721\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> become the youngest female artist to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame<\/a>, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/taylor-swift-shares-opalite-video-starring-graham-norton-after-being-inspired-by-appearance-on-his-show-3927930\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">enlisted Graham Norton, Domhnall Gleeson, Lewis Capaldi, Cillian Murphy and more for a new \u2018Opalite\u2019 music video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars has responded after fans of Taylor Swift accused him of liking a post that dissed her.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,1581,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}