Katy Perry rumoured to record Taylor Swift diss track titled ‘1984’

Swift previously stated that her new single 'Bad Blood' was written about a fellow female artist

Katy Perry has sparked rumours that she may release a diss track aimed at Taylor Swift.

Perry recently registered a title for a new song with the performing rights organisation BMI. The track is titled ‘1984’ and could be seen as a direct reference to Swift’s latest album ‘1989’.

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As reported by Digital Spy, the new song has been co-written by Dallas Austin, Andreas Carlsson, Patrick Collier and Nazerine Tokio.

It follows Swift’s new single ‘Bad Blood’, which many believe to be a reference to her relationship with Perry. Though Taylor Swift has never named Perry directly, she has hinted that the song is about a fellow female performer. In an interview with Rolling Stone Swift confirmed the track was about another female artist, describing their relationship as “straight-up enemies”.

“For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not,” Swift said. “She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?'”

“She did something so horrible,” Swift continued. “I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational – you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.”

Katy Perry is due to release her fifth album by next year, her manager recently confirmed. The singer, who begins the last stint of her ‘Prismatic’ tour in Peru on September 22, released her fourth solo album, ‘Prism’, in October 2013. It was the sixth best-selling album of that year.

Meanwhile, Perry recently became embroiled in a political controversy in Taiwan after one of her outfits was taken as a political statement. The pop star recently played a show in Taipei, Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) on April 28. Although an independent nation, many regard Taiwan as part of the mainland People’s Republic of China.

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Perry wore a sunflower dress at her gig, which some saw as a show of support for the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement, which saw a group of students occupied Taiwan’s parliament for 23 days in a protest against trade agreements with China. Perry also draped herself in the Taiwanese flag during her performance.

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