Song
Bad Blood
1989 · 2014 · Track 8
Co-written
Written byTaylor Swift, Karl Johan Schuster, Max Martin
Produced byKarl Johan Schuster, Max Martin
Also known as: BB
Ghosts
Structural
Supernatural & Gothic
“If you live like that, you live like ghosts”
A moral statement through gothic imagery, to live without integrity is to be only half-alive, a ghost. The ghost here is a figure of hollowness and social death rather than supernatural haunting; the lyric uses the spectre as an image of a life unlived.
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Rust
Structural
Nature & Landscape
“ruin what was shiny, now it's all rusted”
Personal
War / Battle
Incidental
Blood & Violence
“It was my season for battle wounds, battle scars”
Personal