Taylor Swift dropped three new digital versions of The Tortured Poets Department on Friday.

Billie Eilish’s new album Hit Me Hard And Soft also dropped on Friday causing some to wonder if Taylor’s camp did it on purpose to overshadow the 22-year-old’s first album since 2021.

The Ocean Eyes singer had May 17 long marked for her new album and Taylor seemed to drop in out of nowhere to release the new versions of TTPD.

Taylor’s releases will undoubtedly cut into Eilish’s streaming numbers and fans reacted to that.

And this isn’t the first time TayTay has been accused of overshadowing another powerful female singer.

‘Doing this on her album release day is so nasty,’ one fan of Eilish wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

Another wrote: ‘just last year @taylorswift dropped new digital versions of her then 3 month old album to block sza from the #1 spot on the albums chart, and here she is doing the exact same thing except that billie eilish hasn’t even dropped her new album.

Still more fans tried to see the situation more reasonably.

Another commented: ‘@taylorswift and @billieeilishare not beefing through F*CKING VINYL VARIANTS – yall are INSUFFERABLE. stop putting women against each other to defend your fav?? it’s embarrassing.’

‘i think it’s very unnecessary to turn these 2 woman simply promoting their freshly new albums into an imaginary beef,’ one person wrote.

‘Like look at me in the eyes and swear to me that u think that taylor hates billie and it’s promoting her album for the sake of ruining billie’s career…,’ another expressed.

But it wasn’t all that long ago that Swift released her entire catalog on Spotify after years of boycotting the streaming service.

As reported by HuffPost, Swift released three additional digital copies of The Tortured Poets Department for her fans to purchase. An extra version of one of the three Swift songs—The Black Dog, Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? and Cassandra—are included in every copy. Regarding the release date, the updated versions came out the same day as Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft. Several fans quickly accused Swift of overtly trying to outperform Eilish’s song in the charts. A fan commented on X, “I love you taylor, but this is just greedy. couldn’t have released this last week or next week? but now that you know there’s competition for #1 this week, you gotta go and play these stunts. it’s honestly tiring because you did this with sza too. just stop and let other people win pls.”

Another user called Swift ‘greedy’ and added, “Love how billie said she’d wait till ariana released eternal sunshine to release her album & here’s taylor mass releasing to block billie…mind u she just released an album with 31 tracks…just greedy.” One more user shared a similar sentiment on X, “I used to support how creative Taylor would get with her releases, but she’s been milking it like crazy for too long and this is just ridiculous.”

On the other hand, some Swifties jumped in support of the pop icon. One person added, “No is forcing yall to pre order or stream her music ! If yall don’t like her then don’t listen or pre order to it . Obviously the swifties are gonna pre order and stream because she’s doing it for her fans and also she said that she loves writing, making, releasing Music! Billie is gonna be number one anyway . Both of them are rich!”

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Another noteworthy tweet stated, “Billie’s statement about artists releasing 40 vinyl packages to get people to buy more really got into her… doing this on her album release day is so nasty.” Here, the fan brought up an interview Eilish had with Billboard on March 28, in which she discussed her disapproval of the practice of releasing many vinyl record variations due to its negative environmental impacts. She told the outlet, “I can’t even express to you how wasteful it is. It is right in front of our faces and people are just getting away with it left and right, and I find it really frustrating as somebody who really goes out of my way to be sustainable and do the best that I can and try to involve everybody in my team in being sustainable — and then it’s some of the biggest artists in the world making f–king 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more.”

Eilish said that ‘all your favorite artists’ are doing it, but she did not specifically mention Swift. Still, many of Swift’s fans saw this as a jab at her. On March 31, however, Eilish provided clarification via her Instagram Stories. As reported by LifeandStyle, she clarified, “Okay so it would be so awesome if people would stop putting words into my mouth and actually read what I said in that Billboard article. I wasn’t singling anyone out, these are industry-wide systemic issues.”