--- title: Ruby Rose on the New Katy Perry Swish Swish Revenge Song description: Ruby Rose took to Twitter to slam Katy Perry for her new song 'Swish Swish' which Rose seems to believe was a diss directed at Taylor Swift. canonical: https://time.com/4785868/ruby-rose-on-katy-perry-swish-swish/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-19T16:49:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:48.457Z og:title: Ruby Rose Criticizes Katy Perry's Revenge Song 'Swish Swish' og:description: "To go from rebranding as political activist..to ditch it and go low is a bummer" og:url: https://time.com/4785868/ruby-rose-on-katy-perry-swish-swish/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1875391cd691c2a2/6988ce10a988ca84d36bc4dd/ruby-rose-katy-perry-taylor-swift-swish-swish.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Backstage - 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ruby Rose Criticizes Katy Perry's Revenge Song 'Swish Swish' twitter:description: "To go from rebranding as political activist..to ditch it and go low is a bummer" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1875391cd691c2a2/6988ce10a988ca84d36bc4dd/ruby-rose-katy-perry-taylor-swift-swish-swish.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ruby Rose Criticizes Katy Perry's New Revenge-Themed Single 'Swish Swish' > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for GLAAD) BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 02: Actress Ruby Rose (L) and singer-songwriter Taylor Swift attend the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 2, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for GLAAD) Jason Kempin—Getty Images for GLAAD  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 19, 2017 4:49 PM UTC [Katy Perry](http://time.com/4762550/met-gala-katy-perry-red-dress/) released her third single, “Swish Swish,” from [upcoming album _Witness_](http://time.com/4784928/katy-perry-prank/) late on Thursday night and it looks like it might just be [the reaction to “Bad Blood” that she addressed in loose terms in an recent interview](http://time.com/4771017/katy-perry-bad-blood-response-new-album/). The song, which features [rapper Nicki Minaj](http://time.com/4300095/nicki-minaj-time-100-video/), takes clear shots at an unknown someone with lyrics like “Don’t you come for me/No, not today/You’re calculated/I got your number/’Cause you’re a joker/And I’m a courtside killer queen” and “funny my name keeps comin; outcha mouth/’Cause I stay winning.” Given the [fraught history between Perry and singer Taylor Swift](http://time.com/3968932/katy-perry-taylor-swift-nicki-minaj-vmas-bad-blood-feud/), which includes [a tiff over backup dancers](http://national.suntimes.com/national-celebrity/7/72/1139837/katy-perry-backup-dancer-taylor-swift-feud/), [a mutual ex in John Mayer](http://time.com/4711217/john-mayer-breakup-song-katy-perry/), [some seemingly pointed tweets](https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/509247190280065025?lang=en), and of course, [Swift’s song “Bad Blood”](http://time.com/3541210/taylor-swifts-bad-blood-1989/) that some fans see as a thinly veiled diss track towards Perry, “Swish Swish” could be read as the latest development in [the pop princess feud of our time](http://time.com/4680749/best-celebrity-feuds/). During a recent interview with [_Entertainment Weekly_](http://time.com/4771017/katy-perry-bad-blood-response-new-album/), Perry spoke about whether she addresses the supposed diss track on _Witness_. “I think \[my new album is\] a very empowered record,” she said. “There is no one thing that’s calling out any one person.” Perry continued by offering a [somewhat general explanation](http://time.com/4771017/katy-perry-bad-blood-response-new-album/). “One thing to note is: You can’t mistake kindness for weakness and don’t come for me. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. And that’s not to any one person and don’t quote me that it is, because it’s not.” It bears mentioning that Perry tapped Nicki Minaj as a collaborator, [who had a public disagreement with Swift on Twitter following the MTV Video Music Awards nominations in 2015](http://time.com/4014137/miley-cyrus-nicki-minaj-taylor-swift-vmas/), an incident that prompted Perry to post the following tweet. > [](https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/623965129290289152) There was one person who appears to have read Perry’s lyrics as shots fired and that was Ruby Rose, _Orange Is the New Black_ star, DJ, and a friend of Taylor Swift’s. Rose took to her Twitter on early Friday morning to slam Perry and her song. > [](https://twitter.com/RubyRose/status/865422401244352513) > [](https://twitter.com/RubyRose/status/865430407839219712) > [](https://twitter.com/RubyRose/status/865467271199694849) > [](https://twitter.com/RubyRose/status/865470258299060224) Rose did have compliments for collaborator Nicki Minaj, however. > [](https://twitter.com/RubyRose/status/865423626392158208) > [](https://twitter.com/RubyRose/status/865470659488399361) Previously, Rose has [publicly criticized Khloé Kardashian](http://time.com/4414858/ruby-rose-khloe-kardashian-feud/) after a series of tweets related to [Kim Kardashian West’s Snapchat reveal of Swift’s telephone conversation with Kanye West about his song “Famous.”](http://time.com/4411055/kanye-west-taylor-swift-kim-kardashian-feud/) Listen to the song below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4785868/ruby-rose-on-katy-perry-swish-swish/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4785868/ruby-rose-on-katy-perry-swish-swish/"},"headline":"Ruby Rose Criticizes Katy Perry's New Revenge-Themed Single 'Swish Swish'","datePublished":"2017-05-19T16:49:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:48.457Z","description":"\"To go from rebranding as political activist only to ditch it and go low is a bummer\"","url":"https://time.com/4785868/ruby-rose-on-katy-perry-swish-swish/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities","Music","Katy Perry","Taylor Swift","Nicki Minaj"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1875391cd691c2a2/6988ce10a988ca84d36bc4dd/ruby-rose-katy-perry-taylor-swift-swish-swish.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1875391cd691c2a2/6988ce10a988ca84d36bc4dd/ruby-rose-katy-perry-taylor-swift-swish-swish.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Backstage - 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards","caption":"Backstage - 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards","creditText":"Jason Kempin—Getty Images for GLAAD","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4785868/ruby-rose-on-katy-perry-swish-swish/","name":"Ruby Rose Criticizes Katy Perry's New Revenge-Themed Single 'Swish Swish'"}}]}] ```