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UPDATE: Taylor Swift debuted the "Bad Blood" video at the Billboard Awards. Get the abounding adventure here.
No pop brilliant has baffled the social-media bold as able-bodied as Taylor Swift. She's been rolling out brain-teaser posters for her "Bad Blood" music video in beforehand of the clip's premiere – during Sunday's Billboard Music Awards – aback aboriginal May, spotlighting the star-studded aggregation of accompany who will arise in what looks to be an action-themed video.
Although the meanings abaft Swift's songs accept consistently been a accountable of speculation, the afflatus abaft "Bad Blood" and its absinthian lyrics have generated more curiosity than usual. It began when the accompanist appear to Rolling Stone that the tune was about addition acclaimed changeable artist. "For years, I was never abiding if we were accompany or not," Swift said, abnegation to name names. "She would appear up to me at awards shows and say article and airing away, and I would think, 'Are we friends, or did she aloof accord me the harshest insult of my life?'"
The pop brilliant again appear in the aforementioned article that best of her ire came from a business move that the added artisan fabricated aback in 2013. "She basically approved to demolition an absolute amphitheatre tour," Swift said. "She approved to appoint a agglomeration of bodies out from beneath me. And I'm decidedly non-confrontational — you would not accept how abundant I abhorrence conflict. So now I accept to abstain her. It's awkward, and I don't like it."
Now it looks like Swift's "Bad Blood" video will feature a agnate girl-versus-girl feud, with characters Catastrophe (played by Swift) and Knockout (Swift's best acquaintance Karlie Kloss) at the centermost of it. "Blank Space" administrator Joseph Kahn helmed the clip, for which he pushed Swift to be her best self-aware and vengeful. "I adulation alive with [Swift]. She is the bomb," the administrator posted on Twitter forth with one of Swift's posters.
Each of the brain-teaser posters is evocative of the 2005 neo-noir blur Sin City, bolstered by the actuality that Sin City actress Jessica Alba will portray "Domino" in the video and that Swift and Martha Hunt are calling themselves "assassins." Incidentally, Sin City additionally starred Jaime King, who has already declared Swift the godmother of her as-yet-unborn child.
Alba is not the alone brilliant set to accomplish an actualization in the video. Grey's Anatomy's Ellen Pompeo, Law & Order: SVU's Mariska Hargitay and rapper Kendrick Lamar have additionally been confirmed. And alike admitting those stars aren't generally associated with the singer's close amphitheater of friends, it's account acquainted that Swift's bodies Meredith Grey and Olivia Benson are called afterwards Pompeo and Hargitay's acclaimed TV characters, and the accompanist has generally praised Lamar's music, alike telling Rolling Stone that his song "Backseat Freestyle" kept her calm during her aboriginal year active in New York City.
Below, see the casting account from the "Bad Blood" video. According to Swift, anniversary amateur chose their character's name and persona.
Update: Taylor Swift has appear that Selena Gomez will be the advance actress in the "Bad Blood" video. She is the final affiliate to be appear afore the video premieres Sunday night.
Taylor Swift as CatastropheSelena Gomez as ArsynKarlie Kloss as KnockoutKendrick Lamar as Welvin Da GreatMartha Hunt as HomeSliceJessica Alba as DominoSerayah as DilemmaLena Dunham as Lucky FioriHailee Steinfeld as The TrinityEllie Goulding as Destructa XGiGi Hadid as Slay-ZHayley Williams as The Crimson CurseZendaya as Cut-ThroatLily Aldridge as FrostbyteEllen Pompeo as LunaMariska Hargitay as JusticeCara Delevingne as Mother ChuckerCindy Crawford as HeadmistressSelena Gomez as Arsyn
