Katy Perry has today dropped the film clip for her long-awaited, and much-rumoured, Taylor Swift diss track, ‘Swish Swish’. In addition to the film clip being an absolutely wild ride of off-the-wall humour, visual effects, and celebrity cameos, the clip also features a sample from an unlikely Aussie DJ duo.
‘Swish Swish’ was originally released back in May from Katy Perry’s record Witness. Featuring guest vocals from Nicki Minaj, the track has long been rumoured to be a diss track, focused towards Taylor Swift’s ‘Bad Blood’, of which Perry is suspected to be the subject.
While the video is a wild ride full of cameos from celebrities from celebrities such as Terry Crews, Molly Shannon, and Gaten Matarazzo from Stranger Things, it doesn’t feature any references to Taylor Swift, which, to Perry’s credit, is pretty honorable. But what the clip does feature, is a reference to none other than Sydney’s Bag Raiders.
Yes indeed, see, ‘Swish Swish’ happens to reference the famous ‘Shooting Stars’ meme, which has gone completely viral in the last year. The meme generally involves a subject who has been visually manipulated to be falling against a background with a ‘synthwave’ aesthetic while Bag Raiders’ ‘Shooting Stars’ plays in the background, and that’s exactly what Katy Perry’s video employs.
About two minutes and ten seconds into the video, Katy Perry is seen falling while shooting a basketball, which instantly sees the clip diverge into meme territory, taking a short break to play ‘Shooting Stars’ while Perry pays homage to the meme. It’s strange, it’s weird, but it’s oh-so satisfying for lovers of Aussie music (oh, and memes).
While we’ve got no idea about how Bag Raiders feel about their inclusion in the clip yet, we certainly hope that this will result in some pretty serious royalties for the duo.
Check out Katy Perry’s ‘Swish Swish’ clip below.
