Released by: Universal Music Indonesia
Iggy Azalea semakin menujukkan taringnya. Setelah kesuksesan raksasa Fancy, ia kini siap menyusul dengan single terbarunya yang bertajuk Black Widow. Sebagaimana Fancy, ia tidak sendiri. Lagi-lagi ia menarik penyanyi Inggris untuk menemaninya dan kali ini giliran penyanyi yang tengah menanjak namanya, Rita Ora, untuk menemaninya.
Ora bertugas untuk menyanyikan hook pada chorusnya. Vokal Ora melaksanakan tugasnya dengan cukup baik. Power dan intensitas ditiupkan dengan prima oleh Ora. Selintas memang agak mengingatkan akan gaya bernyanyi ala Katy Perry. Tidak mengherankan sebenarnya karena Perry merupakan salah satu penulis lagu dari Black Widow, bersama Sarah Hudson, Benny Blanco, dan duo Stargate yang juga bertugas sebagai produser.
Awalnya lagu ini memang diniatkan untuk terdapat dalam album Perry, Prism. Namun, karena satu dan lain hal batal dan kemudian diserahkan kepada Azalea yang menulis ulang dan menjadikannya sebagai lagu Hip-hop, meski tentunya tidak melepaskan semangat Pop-nya dengan begitu saja.
Bertema feminisme, Black Widow terdengar gelap, meski tetap terdengar catchy. Rap ala Azalea tetap terdengar “fancy” seperti biasanya. Tidak perlu berbicara panjang lebar tentang bagaimana kualitas rapping dari Azalea. Kolaborasinya dengan Ora juga cukup kompak.
Menariknya, sebagaimana Dark Horse milik Perry, Black Widow juga memakai Trap yang tengah populer sebagai balura utama lagunya. Ketukan drum yang berderap berseling dengan bass yang berat yang terdengar monoton justru menjadi kekuatan utamanya dalam memberangus pendengaran untuk terjerat dalam belitan jaring sang laba-laba hitam. Infectious!
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(Haris / CreativeDisc Contributor)
LYRIC
I'm gonna love you
Until you hate me
And I'm gonna show you
What's really crazy
You should've known better
Then to mess with me, heartache
I'm gonna lie to you, I'm gonna lie to you
Gonna lie to you, gonna lie to you
Like a black widow, baby
This twisted cat and mouse game always starts the same
First we're both down to play then somehow you go astray
We went from nothing to something liking to loving
It was us against the world now we just fucking
It's like I loved you so much and now I just hate you
Feeling stupid for all the time that I gave you
I wanted all or nothing for us ain't no place in between
By me believing what you say that you never mean
Like It'll last for ever but now forever ain't as long
If it wasn't for you I wouldn't be stuck singing this song
You was different from my last but now you got a mirror
But as it all plays out I see it couldn't be clearer
Now sing
You used to be thirsty for me
But now you wanna be set free
This is the web, the web that you weave
So baby now rest in peace (It's all over with now)
I'm gonna love you
Until you hate me
And I'm gonna show you
What's really crazy
You should've known better
Then to mess with me, heartache
I'm gonna lie to you, I'm gonna lie to you
Gonna lie to you, gonna lie to you
Like a black widow, baby
I'm gonna love you until it hurts
Just to get you I'm doing whatever works
You'd have never met nobody
That will do you how I do ya
That will bring you to your knees
Praise Jesus hallelujah
Imma make you beg for it, plead for it
Till you feel like you breath for it
Till you do any and everything for it
I want you to fiend for it
Wake up and dream for it
Till it's got you gasping for air
And you leave for it
Til then having kids, can check on your mind
And there's nothing but me on it
Now it's me time believe that
If it's yours when you want it
I wouldn't promise I need that
Till I'm everywhere that you be at
I can't fall back go quick
'Cause this here is fatal attraction so I take it all or I don't want shit
You used to be thirsty for me
But now you wanna be set free
This is the web, the web that you weave
So baby now rest in peace (It's all over with now)
I'm gonna love you
Until you hate me
And I'm gonna show you
What's really crazy
You should've known better
Then to mess with me, heartache
I'm gonna lie to you, I'm gonna lie to you
Gonna lie to you, gonna lie to you
Like a black widow, baby