Taylor Swift is known for writing autobiographical lyrics about specific people that are or used to be in her orbit. In her song “Bad Blood,” she sends a vindictive message to an ex-friend who “made a really deep cut.” The song originally debuted on Swift’s 2014 album, “1989.
” In 2015, Swift released a version featuring Kendrick Lamar which accompanied the release of a music video that featured many notable names such as Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid and Zendaya. Nine years later, the song was re-released on “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” with Lamar’s feature on the album’s deluxe companion. Swift starts the song with the chorus that immediately makes her distaste for the subject of the song clear.
“‘Cause, baby, now we got bad blood/ You know it used to be mad love/ So take a look what you’ve done.” Whoever she is feuding with is a friend turned foe, and Swift is angry about it. While the song was originally to be about fellow pop star Katy Perry, the between the two appears to have subsided.
However, today, the song has become associated with a new docuseries, “ : Bad Blood,” which debuted June 21 on HBO. But Perry and Braun, , are not the only ones who Swift had tension with over the years. On her most recent album, “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” Swift sings about proving once again that “Bad Blood” is not the only song that can take aim and fire.
That being said, “Bad Blood” tells the story of a true friend who has b.
