I think were all a little bit crazy, aren't we?
And the way you react to situations in the heat of the moment, when you look back on
it, you think 'I could've probably did that a bit better or handled it differently', So
that's probably why I'm like "Don't tell me I'm cuckoo.
I know.
I just started writing a poem, basically, which was the beginning of "Bad Blood".
When I got back to London, I put it to some piano chords and that's how the beginning
of that song became.
I used to have this best friend and we were stuck to the hip.
We used to dream about when we were older.
Like, "Are we going to live in London?
Are we going to have apartments with our boyfriends together?"
And you create all these stories, because you're still growing and you have a future.
But as you're growing, as a teenager, you take different journeys and you take different
paths as well.
And that's what happened between me and her.
Something changed.
We were growing, but we grew apart and we took a different journeys.
So, that's the bad blood.
I wrote the words 'You're a holiday'.
And then I broke the word down and I was like, 'Holiday kind of has the word holy in it,
as well.'
So that's how I arrived at "I worship you like holy days".
And I guess that's also going back to my childhood and going to church and stuff.
And having lime and bitter, because you can't have alcohol when you're like 15.
when I first wrote the song, actually the intro to bad blood it was going to be a skit
on the album.
It wasn't a part of the song.
So, I wanted to reference to skit in the song, but then we rode it and I was like actually
I want to keep the intro as a part of the song.
So that's why I keep repeating it.
I think I give good advice.
But, I also think it's easier to assess someone else's situation.
Because when it comes to my own, I'm terrible.
I can't give advice to myself.
I'm rubbish.
I'm like, 'What do I do?'
I would like to think I give good advice.
Are you gonna test me on that?
I was remembering all the good things about our relationship.
And then suddenly, I was like, 'Oh shit.
What about all the negative stuff?
The days when we weren't talking.
The moments where I didn't know what was happening in your life and stuff.'
So I wanted to make sure it was a balance.
I'm not just being positive and nostalgic.
But having a true reflection of what a relationship with a best friend is like.
logically, I understand why it happened, but my heart...
I still love her.
She's my friend.
So, I guess I have a little bit of heartbreak over that friendship and it's kind of like
grieving it.
Honestly, it sounds so much deeper than it was.
We all have these best friends when we were younger.
You have about 40 in a day.
When you do lose a friend or something, you do mourn that person.
So I think that's my heart drowning boats for you, because I was on a boat at the time
when writing this song, so that's probably why the boat imagery came up.