Turns out that reports of a Katy Perry song called “1984” rumored to be aimed at Taylor Swift is about as much of a non-story as you can get.
To backup, yesterday a story circulated that Katy Perry had registered a new song titled “1984.” Many jumped to the semi-logical but completely unsubstantiated conclusion that this song might be retaliation for Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” which many rumor is about Perry. The song’s title was also construed as a swipe at Swift’s recent 1989 album.
According to Billboard, a rep for Perry has categorically denied all aspects of the story, saying, “Katy Perry’s managers at Direct Management Group confirm that this story is completely false. Katy Perry was not involved in writing, singing, recording or registering this song.”
That would seem to be that, thought it does still beg the question as to what exactly was registered as a Katy Perry song called “1984.”
Yesterday, one of the song’s alleged co-writers also denied involvement, posting a now-deleted Instagram with the caption, “news to me.”
Why does this always home with sites like BMI? I don't get it, are sites like those reliable or not? Because as far as I know, we've gotten some song titles registered on there that turned out to be real.
However this is the 2nd time I have come across a fake BMI registration. Remember before ARTPOP, CRWYTH or whatever was registered on BMI?
I still stan!
I feel an intense desire to bring up a bunch of posts by two certain members but let me resist. 