Bad News is the 3rd track off of IWGUIW, and is described as “pleading with a lover to choose her over a lifestyle which threatens to pull them apart,” in the Apple Music Editor’s Note.

In an interview with Apple Music, she also stated that she was “kind of in a relationship that has put me in a space of almost processing my parents a little bit…” She added that her father had passed away from a “gang-related situation” when she was young, and that she “started diving into [that] headspace with the music I was making.” That link emerges most explicitly on this song.