Celeb cameo's in music videos is nothing new; think Pamela Anderson shifting the face off Kanye in his 'Touch The Sky' video; Macaulay Culkin being a cute fecker in Michael Jackson's 'Black or White' or Alexander Skarsgard in Lady Gaga's 'Paparazzi'.... let's just take a moment to appreciate that moment, for purely artistic reasons of course.
Beautiful... lines and positioning there Alex.
George Michael had the ultimate celeb filled video for 'Freedom! 90' directed by David Fincher when he got a bunch of the biggest supes in the world to flounce around in muted colours including Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford. WARNING: You may puke from all the beauty.
Well Taylor Swift is trying to out-do them all by having.... everyone in her video for 'Bad Blood.' Tay-Tay started teasing the video by releasing Sin City style movie posters for the video a few weeks ago including Cindy Crawford who was a part of George Michael's video... looking well on it Cindy.
Some of the stars include Taylor's real-life crew Zendaya, Cara Delevigne, Selena Gomez, Karlie Kloss, Lena Dunham, Ellie Goulding and Hayley Williams. In a nod to her favourite TV characters, Ellen Pompeo who plays Meredith Grey on 'Grey's Anatomy' and Mariska Harigtay who plays Olivia Benson on Law and Order also appear as does Gigi Hadid who is a model along with Lily Aldridge and in a nod to the Sin City style, she's only gotten Jessica Alba to take off a motor bike helmet.
They're bloody great posters and certainly peaked interest. The thing is, Bad Blood which is reportedly about Katy Perry, is probably the weakest on what is a very strong album.... I'm trying to be cool here. I LOVE 1989. YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO IT ALWAYS.
Check out all of the stars here in the video which premiered last night at the Billboard Music Awards where Taylor won 8 times, as you do.
We knew for a long time that this video was gonna be about kick ass girls being kick ass what we didn't know was that the song was going to be a remix. Kendrick Lemar has added two verses to it.
It's unfortunate that the video is so short because it really is a case of blink and you'll miss them but I'm sure there will be some extended scenes coming our way over the coming weeks.
Buzzfeed has done something amazing. It lets you create your own 'Bad Blood' poster which I have obviously bee consumed with all day:
And I shall call myself 'Nonchalant.'
Snarl
You too can lost the run of yourself with thanks to Buzzfeed here.
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