Celeb News: "How we can tell 'Bad Blood' is about Katy Perry"

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Swift gave fans some help decoding this one via a Rolling Stone interview: “For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not,” Swift told the magazine, confirming the song was about a fellow female singer. “She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’”

Swift added that the anger behind the tune stemmed from the fact that the artist “basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour.” That’s an easy hint — some of Swift’s back-up dancers abruptly left her “Red” tour for Perry’s “Prism” tour last summer. Throw in the fact that Perry dated Swift’s ex-boyfriend John Mayer, plus Perry’s vague tweet alluding to serious ish with another lady, and the blogosphere happily braced for a throwdown between the two superstars.

Check the furious opening lines: “Cause, baby, now we got bad blood/You know it used to be mad love/So take a look what you’ve done, cause baby, now we got bad blood.” Swift and Perry did used to be somewhat friendly, if the cheerful tweets between the two are any evidence — okay, so there’s the “mad love.”

It continues in a similar vein: “Now we got problems/And I don’t think we can solve them/You made a really deep cut,” Swift vents. The lyrics push even further: “I was thinking that you could be trusted” and “Did you have to hit me where I’m weak, baby, I couldn’t breathe/And rub it in so deep, salt in the wound like you’re laughing right at me.” Rough, huh? And it seems to align with what Swift said in Rolling Stone about the “horrible” thing Unnamed Diva did to destroy the friendship — whether it was the dancer-poaching or Mayer-dating.

Later in the song, Swift goes deeper: “Band-aids don’t fix bullet holes/You say sorry just for show/If you live like that that you live with ghosts.” This is the point where we need to inform the slower among you that Perry has a song called “Ghost.” Also written by Max Martin, who has a co-writing credit on “Bad Blood.” Small world!

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Dylangaga

Ok you're late

lousaysthings

Just clarifying what we all knew really

Rated R

That last point

Because Katy has a song called "Ghost" and Taylor said the word "ghost"? Y'all gotta do better than that. I mean it's clearly about Katy but they are reaching for stuff

Starships

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Originally posted by Rated R

That last point

Because Katy has a song called "Ghost" and Taylor said the word "ghost"? Y'all gotta do better than that. I mean it's clearly about Katy but they are reaching for stuff

They were reaching for some Starships right there

But to be honest I thought about it, Ma Martin probably KNEW the song was about Katy and so when he was cowriting with Taylor he was like "Oh I did this song with Katy called Ghost where she is singing about living with a ghost" and Taylor incorporated that

mathekr

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Later in the song, Swift goes deeper: “Band-aids don’t fix bullet holes/You say sorry just for show/If you live like that that you live with ghosts.” This is the point where we need to inform the slower among you that Perry has a song called “Ghost.”

NewRihannaStan

Lol well .

BadBoy

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Originally posted by Rated R

That last point

Because Katy has a song called "Ghost" and Taylor said the word "ghost"? Y'all gotta do better than that. I mean it's clearly about Katy but they are reaching for stuff

mte

RainDreamer

I think its more in the production and the way the song sounds quite like a Katy song really, there's not actually anything she says to make it obvious

GreasyBruce

It's obviously about a relationship, and this whole Katy thing is a publicity ploy.