--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: “Black Widow,” Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Dec 02, 2014 # “Black Widow,” Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  For the follow-up to her blockbuster summer single “Fancy,” Iggy Azalea easily could have released a worthier song from her debut studio album The New Classic — but instead, she pushed out the lazy and derivative “Black Widow,” left on the cutting room floor of Katy Perry’s Prism sessions (likely because it bears a striking similarity to Perry’s superior “Dark Horse”). The addition of the faceless British import Rita Ora does little to distinguish the song from the other pablum crowding radio. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3613535/black-widow-iggy-azalea-feat-rita-ora/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3613535/black-widow-iggy-azalea-feat-rita-ora/"},"headline":"“Black Widow,” Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora","datePublished":"2014-12-02T21:05:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:04:05.612Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3613535/black-widow-iggy-azalea-feat-rita-ora/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"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":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2014/3613535/black-widow-iggy-azalea-feat-rita-ora/","name":"“Black Widow,” Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora"}}]}] ```