Swift - Bad Blood -feat. Kendrick Lamar-...: Taylor

It is also, frankly, a little bloodless. The original "Bad Blood" is a victim narrative—Swift is the wronged party, staring from a skyscraper window as her adversary drives away. It lacks grit. Enter Kendrick Lamar.

In 2015, Kendrick Lamar was not just a rapper; he was a critical oracle. Coming off the seismic release of To Pimp a Butterfly , Lamar was operating in a sphere of jazz-infused, politically charged, introspective fury. To have him step onto a Taylor Swift pop track was a collision of universes—the pristine, romanticized world of pop spectacle crashing into the raw, percussive reality of Compton. Taylor Swift - Bad Blood -feat. Kendrick Lamar-...

The Alchemy of Anger: How Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar Turned a Personal Grudge into a Cultural Anthem It is also, frankly, a little bloodless