DOWN BAD

"So lot of the songs on TTPD deal with the idea of heartbreak or loss in a metaphor of something else. The metaphor in Down Bad is that I was comparing sort of the idea of being you know, like love bombed where someone rocks your world and dazzles you and then kind of abandons you as an alien abduction where you were abducted by aliens but you wanted [it], like this girl is abducted by aliens but she wanted to stay with them and then they drop her off back in her hometown. She’s like ‘Wait, no. Where are you going? I liked it there, it was weird but it was cool, come back.’ And so the girl in the song just felt like ‘I’ve just been exposed to a whole different galaxy and universe and I didn’t know it’s possible. How can you just put me back where I was before?” - Taylor Swift