“If you can be fake with everyone and try to prove you are something that you’re not, I can do it too.” “I’m going to be all types of fake too,” she responds to the fictional main character.

Lyrics like so you’re a tough guy / Like it really rough guy are meant to call someone’s bluff. and “Stuck in the Mud” by Isaiah Rashad featuring SZA when creating “Bad Guy.” The concept for the song was developed by the singer from a previous song she started writing that centered around the topic of her being “the bad guy.” She adds that she was inspired by the sonics of “Never” by J.I.D. “The whole song is talking to someone that thinks they’re this big tough guy,” she describes. She elaborated on this point to Rolling Stone, noting that “Bad Guy” is about taking someone down a couple of pegs who is too big for their britches. People like bad kids, bad boys, bad bitches, they do that shit and they don’t even know.” I know that because I used to say that and I wasn’t. “If you’re going around all the time saying ‘I’m bad, I’m always breaking rules and doing this and doing that,’ you’re not. “I feel like you will never catch a bad bitch telling everybody that she’s a bad bitch,” she continues.

“It’s basically just making fun of everyone and their personas of themselves, and even mine.”Īn example she cites of people who fall into this category is those who “say they’re always working” and try to prove that by having a kitschy phrase like “never not working” on their cell phone case.īut the singer says that she actually identifies with these types of people, as she used to try to come off tougher than she is. “It’s about a lot of things, but I think the actual idea for this song was people that have to tell everybody that they are a certain way all the time, they’re not that certain way,” she explains to 102.7 KIISFM. Eilish has explained that the track pokes fun at people who try to project an image out into the world that they want others to see them as – whether it’s true or not. “Bad Guy” is as much about social commentary as it is an unforgettable pop song.

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