Makna Lagu Down Bad - Taylor Swift dan Liriknya yang Viral di TikTok, Diduga Ditulis untuk Matty Healy

JAKARTA, iNews.id - Makna lagu Down Bad milik Taylor Swift tengah banyak diperbincangkan. Lagu tersebut baru saja dirilis pada 19 April 2024 dalam album bertajuk The Tortured Poets Department.

Belum genap sebulan usai dirilis, Down Bad sudah diputar lebih dari 134 juta kali di Spotify. Lagu ini juga sempat viral di TikTok dan menjadi backsound video para kreator sebanyak lebih dari 58 ribu kali.

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Makna Lagu Down Bad - Taylor Swift

Melansir dari laman Capital UK, Senin (13/5/2023), lagu Down Bad menceritakan tentang seseorang yang jatuh cinta terlalu dalam kepada seseorang, terapi akhirnya ditinggalkan begitu saja. Alhasil, orang itu menjadi berantakan. 

Dalam wawancara bersama iHeartRadio, Taylor Swift memaparkan, “Lagu Down Bad berisi gagasan tentang ‘love bombing’ yang dilakukan seseorang hingga ia mampu membuat Anda terpesona, tetapi kemudian meninggalkan Anda begitu saja.”

Taylor Swift menggunakan perumpamaan ‘seorang gadis yang diculik oleh alien dan kemudian dibawa kembali turun ke bumi’ untuk menggambarkan inti makna lagu. Gadis itu merasa kebingungan karena sebelumnya ia dihadapkan galaksi dan alam semesta yang berbeda, tetapi tiba-tiba dikembalikan ke bumi.

Dari sanalah, penggemar berasumsi bahwa lagu ini ditujukan kepada mantan kekasihnya. Namun, dugaan kuat merujuk pada 

Penggemar juga mengira lagu tersebut mungkin tentang Matty Healy berdasarkan bridge lagu tersebut.  Taylor bernyanyi: Saya menyukai pengambilalihan Anda yang bermusuhan / Pertemuan yang semakin dekat / Semua paparan tidak senonoh Anda.  "Eksposur tidak senonoh" bisa menjadi referensi spesifik terhadap reputasi Matty yang menjadi berita utama karena perilakunya yang liar di atas panggung dan kejenakaannya yang bermasalah di luar panggung Matty Healy karena dianggap mewakili lirik ‘I loved your hostile takeovers. Encounters closer and closer. All your indecent exposures’.

Lirik Lagu Down Bad - Taylor Swift

Did you really beam me up?
In a cloud of sparkling dust
Just to do experiments on
Tell me I was the chosen one
Show me that this world is bigger than us
Then sent me back where I came from
For a moment, I knew cosmic love

Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym
Everything comes out teenage petulance
"Fuck it if I can't have him"
"I might just die, it would make no difference"
Down bad, waking up in blood
Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up
Fuck it if I can't have us
I might just not get up
I might stay down bad

Fuck it if I can't have him
Down bad
Fuck it if I can't have him

Did you take all my old clothes?
Just to leave me here naked and alone
In a field in my same old town
That somehow seems so hollow now
They'll say I'm nuts if I talk about the existence of you
For a moment, I was heaven struck

Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym (Crying at the gym)
Everything comes out teenage petulance
"Fuck it if I can't have him" (Fuck it if I can't have him)
"I might just die, it would make no difference"
Down bad, waking up in blood (Waking up in blood)
Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up
Fuck it if I can't have us
I might just not get up
I might stay down bad

Like I lost my twin
Fuck it if I can't have him (Down bad)
Down bad
Waving at the ship
Fuck it if I can't have him

I loved your hostile takeovers
Encounters closer and closer
All your indecent exposures
How dare you say that it's-
I'll build you a fort on some planet
Where they can all understand it
How dare you think it's romantic
Leaving me safe and stranded
'Cause fuck it, I was in love
So fuck you if I can't have us
'Cause fuck it, I was in love

Now I'm down bad, crying at the gym (Crying at the gym)
Everything comes out teenage petulance
"Fuck it if I can't have him" (Can't have him)
"I might just die, it would make no difference"
Down bad, waking up in blood (Waking up in blood)
Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up
Fuck it if I can't have us
I might just not get up
I might stay down bad

Like I lost my twin
Fuck it if I can't have him (Down bad)
Down bad
Waving at the ship
Fuck it if I can't have him

Like I lost my twin
Fuck it if I can't have him
Down bad
Waving at the ship
Fuck it if I can't have him

Itulah makna lagu Down Bad milik Taylor Swift. Selamat bernyanyi sobat iNews.id. 

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