This is the another song from the 2007 film and later award winning stage musical Legally Blonde. Like the rest of the score, "Blood In The Water" was written by the husband and wife team of Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin. Both contributed to the music and lyrics.

After arriving at Harvard and meeting her classmates in "The Harvard Variations", Elle and they meet Professor Callahan, who is the principal performer of this carefully crafted and in places quite savage song. For Elle, her encounter with Callahan proves to be a baptism of fire, and she is unceremoniously booted out of his class. >>