There’s so much going on here in fact that we thought it deserved an in depth breakdown.īasketball – Probably just because Swift’s name sounds like “Swish” (the sound of a basketball going through the hoop without touching the rhyme) the track is forced full of NBA references.ĭrag Queens – The single’s artwork includes a receipt for a single “tea,” a reference to spilling the truth (or gossip). It’s less an organically created song, as it is some sort of lab creation out of an attempted hit factory. We realize this all even before Nicki Minaj hops on the track and drags her own headline-making feud - the one with Remy Ma - into the affair. The lyrics meanwhile include a hodgepodge of slang and hashtag-happy phrases assembled from sources as varied as Buddha to Whitney Houston to The Godfather. The backing track itself (produced by Noah “Mailbox” Passovoy, PJ “Promnite” Sledge and Duke Dumont) is pieced together, in part, from elements of three other songs. Look a bit deeper and the whole thing bursts open like a piñata filled with far flung references both lyrical and musical. Yet, there’s a whole lot more going on with the particular track.
Indeed, little parts of the word salad Perry sputtered when Rolling Stone asked her point blank if she thought “Blood” was about her and if she had a reply track waiting are echoed in the song’s lyrics. The main talking point: it’s Perry’s long awaited retort to Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” and a continuation of a long-simmering feud between the two pop stars that neither has confirmed publicly, but is undeniably a thing.
Katy Perry‘s latest single “Swish, Swish,” a collaboration with Nicki Minaj, hit the internet like a bomb this morning.
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