Bad Blood (song)
| Bad blood | |
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| Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar | |
| publication | 17th May 2015 |
| length | 3:19 (single) 3:31 (album version) |
| Genre (s) | Pop , electro-pop , rap |
| Author (s) | Taylor Swift , Max Martin , Kendrick Lamar , Shellback |
| Label | Big Machine Records , Republic Records |
| Award (s) |
Grammy Awards 2016 :
MTV Europe Music Awards 2015 :
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| album | 1989 |
Bad Blood ( Eng .: "Hostility"; "bad blood" ( phrase )) is a song by the US singer Taylor Swift in collaboration with the US rapper Kendrick Lamar . The song is the fourth single from Swift's 1989 album and was released on May 17, 2015. Bad Blood has sold over 2.58 million copies in the United States alone.
At the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards , the accompanying music video won the Video of the Year and Best Collaboration categories . The song won the Best Song award at the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards . Furthermore won Bad Blood at the Grammy Awards 2016 award in the category Best Music Video and was also in the category of a duo / group Best Popdarbietung nominated.
background
Swift wrote Bad Blood about another unspecified female artist who, according to Swift, tried to sabotage one of her touring appearances by luring some dancers away. Most media, including Rolling Stone , Time , Billboard and The Washington Post, suspected that the unnamed artist was Katy Perry . The album version was written and produced by Swift, Max Martin and Shellback and has not yet received a Rappart. Bad Blood was instrumentally revised for the single release and Kendrick Lamar wrote new verses in rap form .
Musical and content
Bad Blood is written in G major and has a tempo of 88 beats per minute . Swift's vocal range ranges from E 3 to D 5 . Lyrically, the song describes the betrayal of a close friend and the subsequent reaction of the lyrical self .
- Refrain, original excerpt
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- Refrain, German translation
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Reviews
While the album version of Bad Blood received average reviews, the critics in the remix version particularly praised Lamar's rap performances. HitFix's Katie Hasty criticizes Swift's “brat voice” on this song, as well as the “weak beats”. Joe McIndoe wrote that the song has "some good lyrical moments" but the hookline disappoints. George Seabrook of The Edge described the remix version as "wonderful" and praised the exchange of instruments compared to the original version. August Brown of the Los Angeles Times praised that "his (Lamar's) verses fit perfectly into the rework of the song." The Süddeutsche Zeitung simply described Bad Blood as a "cracker".
Music video
background
The music video for Bad Blood was shot by Joseph Kahn , who was also the director of the music video for Swift's second single from the 1989 album , Blank Space . The music video was shot in Los Angeles on April 12, 2015 , but the location of the video is London . The video premiered at the Billboard Music Awards on May 17, 2015 . Several well-known singers, actresses and models play in the video, shot in martial arts style . It also contains references to films such as Kill Bill , Sin City , Tron: Legacy and The Fifth Element . In the run-up to the event, Swift promoted the music video with images resembling film posters, each showing different characters.
content
The music video opens with Catastrophe (Swift) and Arsyn (Selena Gomez) fighting a group of men in suits in a London office. When all men are defeated, Catastrophe is betrayed by Arsyn and kicked out of the window. The musical part begins when a catastrophe lies on the roof of a car that has been broken down in a fall. She is being healed in a futuristic-looking hospital room while Welvin Da Great (Kendrick Lamar) raps the first verse as Art Chef in his office. In the episode you see more women fighting alongside Catastrophe and their special abilities, while Catastrophe trains for revenge on Arsyn . At the end of the video, she and Arsyn meet again. The end of this struggle remains open.
occupation
The following personalities play in the music video for Bad Blood :
| role | actress |
|---|---|
| Catastrophe | Taylor Swift |
| Arsyn | Selena Gomez |
| knockout | Karlie Kloss |
| Welvin Da Great | Kendrick Lamar |
| Homeslice | Martha Hunt |
| domino | Jessica Alba |
| dilemma | Serayah |
| Lucky Fiori | Lena Dunham |
| The Trinity | Hailee Steinfeld |
| Destructa X | Ellie Goulding |
| Slay-Z | Gigi Hadid |
| The Crimson Curse | Hayley Williams |
| Cut-throat | Zendaya |
| Frostbyte | Lily Aldridge |
| Luna | Ellen Pompeo |
| Justice | Mariska Hargitay |
| Mother chucker | Cara Delevingne |
| Headmistress | Cindy Crawford |
Reactions
The video was positively received by the media. The Time concludes that this is Swift's been thoroughly thought-famous music video. Julian Dörr from the Süddeutsche Zeitung described it as "as big as it is stupid - so simply very wonderful - fun". With 20.1 million views on Vevo in the first 24 hours, the Bad Blood music video broke the record for the video with the most views in the first 24 hours. Currently (as of September 2018 ) the video was viewed over 1.23 billion times on YouTube .
At the MTV Video Music Awards 2015, Bad Blood , or the associated music video, was in the categories Video of the Year , Best Collaboration , Best Direction , Best Visual Effects , Best Art Direction , Best Editing , Best Cinematography and Best Song of the Summer nominated. The two categories Video of the Year and Best Collaboration were won.
Commercial win
The original version of Bad Blood first entered the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in November 2014 and January 2015 as the album was released in 1989 . After the video premiere and the announcement of the single release, the song entered the charts again and reached the top position on May 24, 2015. It is Swift's fourth overall and Lamar's first number one hit in the United States and Swift's third number one hit from the 1989 album . In addition, Swift reached the top 10 of the American single charts with 18 songs. The song stayed at the top of these charts for a week. For over 2 million copies sold, Bad Blood was awarded 4 times platinum in the USA . At the Teen Choice Awards 2015 , the song won the Choice Music: Break-Up Song and Choice Music: Collaboration categories .
In the UK , the song climbed to # 4 overall and sold over 200,000 copies, giving Bad Blood a Silver Record. In the German-speaking countries, however, it was only placed in the top 30. The song also reached number one in Australia and New Zealand .
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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 Germany (GfK)
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29 (16 weeks) | 16 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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22nd (16 weeks) | 16 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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28 (12 weeks) | 12 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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4th (16 weeks) | 16 |
 United States (Billboard)
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1 (25 weeks) | 25th |
Awards
Awards for music sales
Bad Blood has been awarded 1 × gold and 12 × platinum worldwide. According to the awards, the single was sold more than 3.3 million times.
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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 Australia (ARIA)
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 3 × platinum
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210,000 |
 Canada (MC)
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3 × platinum
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240,000 |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
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 gold
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7,500 |
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United States (RIAA)
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5 × platinum
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2,210,000 |
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United Kingdom (BPI)
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platinum
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600,000 |
| All in all |
1 × gold 12 × platinum |
3,367,500 |
Prices
| year | Award | category | result |
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| 2015 | MTV Europe Music Awards 2015 | Best song | Won |
| Best video | Nominated | ||
| Best cooperation | Nominated | ||
| MTV Video Music Awards 2015 | Video of the Year | Won | |
| Best collaboration | Won | ||
| Best Direction | Nominated | ||
| Best visual effects | Nominated | ||
| Best Art Direction | Nominated | ||
| Best editing | Nominated | ||
| Best Cinematography | Nominated | ||
| Song of Summer | Nominated | ||
| Teen Choice Awards 2015 | Choice Music: Break-Up Song | Won | |
| Choice Music: Collaboration | Won | ||
| Choice Music: Summer Song | Nominated | ||
| 2016 | Grammy Awards 2016 | Best Pop Duo / Group Performance | Nominated |
| Best music video | Won |
Formats
- Download
- Bad Blood - 3:19
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2015 NIELSEN MUSIC US REPORT. (PDF) The Nielsen Company , accessed February 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Josh Eells: The Reinvention of Taylor Swift. In: Rolling Stone . September 8, 2014, accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood. (No longer available online.) June 15, 2015, archived from the original on September 10, 2015 ; accessed on August 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Erin Strecker: Did Katy Perry Confirm Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' Song Is About Her? In: Billboard . September 9, 2014, accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ 12 Biggest Feuds of 2014. In: Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Daniel D'Addario: Is Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' About Katy Perry? A Textual Analysis. In: Time . October 27, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Emily Yahr: Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood': How we can tell she's singing about Katy Perry. In: The Washington Post . October 27, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2015 .
- ^ Taylor Swift 'Bad Blood' Sheet Music. Musicnotes.com, accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Katie Hasty: Taylor Swift, '1989': Track-by-track album review. In: hitfix.com. October 27, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Joe McIndoe: Track-by-Track Album Review: Taylor Swift - 1989. (No longer available online.) In: cultnoise.com. October 29, 2014, archived from the original on June 26, 2015 ; accessed on August 21, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Georg Seabrook: Review: Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood. In: theedgesusu.co.uk. May 20, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ August Brown: Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' video has sound, fury and Kendrick Lamar. In: Los Angeles Times . May 18, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Julian Doerr: The Beef Taylor S. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 19, 2015, accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Jocelyn Vena: Taylor Swift to Debut 'Bad Blood' Video During 2015 Billboard Music Awards. Billboard , May 7, 2015, accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Take this, Katy Perry, you victim! In: The world . May 18, 2015, accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Taylor Swift: Bad Blood (2015 Video) Full Cast & Crew. Internet Movie Database , accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ^ Daniel D'Addario: Watch Taylor Swift's Star-Studded Music Video for 'Bad Blood'. Time , May 17, 2015, accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Erin Strecker: Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' Video Breaks Vevo Record. In: Billboard . May 21, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ TaylorSwiftVEVO: Taylor Swift - Bad Blood ft. Kendrick Lamar. May 17, 2015, accessed September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Colin Stutz: 2015 MTV Video Music Awards Nominees Revealed: Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran & More. In: Billboard . July 21, 2015, accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ^ Gary Trust: Swift scores her fourth No. 1, Wiz Khalifa's narrowly dethroning "See You Again." Plus, David Guetta's "Hey Mama" hits the top 10. In: Billboard . May 27, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Gold and Platinum. Recording Industry Association of America , accessed October 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood chart placement New Zealand. In: charts.org.nz. Hung Medien, accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2015 Singles. ARIA, accessed December 8, 2015 .
- ^ Gold / Platinum Database - Music Canada. Music Canada, accessed December 8, 2015 .
- ↑ NZ Top 40 Singles Chart. Recorded Music NZ, July 13, 2015, accessed August 21, 2015 .
- ↑ YTD MARKETSHARE AT THE SEVEN-MONTH MARK. HITS Daily Double, July 31, 2015, archived from the original on August 1, 2015 ; accessed on August 21, 2015 .
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