When the battle is music, you can count on Bad Blood to step into the arena, and his new single is the perfect battle cry. The song begins with a plaintive piano melody that grabs the listener’s heart. “War” continues as an emotionally raw battle cry, in which the artist refuses to be victimized and seeks vengeance from the people who have wronged him. “War” balances raw intensity with musical elegance, striking a powerful balance. The piano is the voice of vulnerability and strength coiled up in itself. It pulls you into a place of reflection, where pain and power are clashing.
That Bad Bubble chooses to wrap this track around a simply beautiful piano line, showing how far he has come as a songwriter and how he understands the power of emotional storytelling. To listen to the song is to read a manifesto, a proclamation of fighting back against the odds and what you might call the forces that conspire to hold you down. It’s a fight with a universal appeal, one anybody who’s ever confronted adversity can understand. It is a profound longing for justice, for balance, and ultimately, for peace. “War” feels like an intimate battle cry from Bad Bubble’s own heart, but it’s also an invitation for others to project their own fights onto it.
The position of the piano with the powerful lyrical content gives this song an interesting tension that lingers. “War” feels like a declaration that sometimes the most intense battles are waged in silence, to the tender help of nothing more than a piano and your own, unadulterated emotions. The single from Bad Bubble is the call to arms you blast before owning your power, alongside a soundtrack for anyone who’s ready.