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Bad Blood

1989 · 2014 · Track 8
Sole author
Written byTaylor Swift, Karl Johan Schuster, Max Martin
Produced byKarl Johan Schuster, Max Martin
Also known as: BB
Motifs & symbols
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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