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Down Bad
Taylor Swift
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- Album
- THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
- Released
- 2024
- Genres
- Pop
- Length
- 4:21
- Tempo
- 160 BPM
- Label
- Taylor Swift
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About this song
"Down Bad" is the fourth track on Taylor Swift's eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. In an iHeartRadio interview, Swift explained that the song's metaphor compares the feeling of being love bombed to being abducted by aliens and then dropped back home.
What it's about
The main character likens love to being taken by aliens, experiencing a whole other galaxy, and then being returned to her hometown and wishing to go back to that feeling.
Summary written with AI, based on the song's page on Genius.
Fun facts
- Sampled in 2 other songs, like “down bad x down bad by barbiecorpse”.
- Covered once, including “down bad by Cameron Reid”.
- Written and produced by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff.
- Recorded at Electric Lady Studios.