Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood video: 10 coolest moments

Swift assembles a team with Kendrick Lamar, Cara Delevingne and Lena Dunham for an epic showdown
Explosive: Taylor Swift's new Bad Blood video casts her as a secret agent (Image: Big Machine Records, LLC)
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Ben Travis18 May 2015

After flooding Twitter with Sin City-esque posters introducing a whole host of stunning female assassins and secret agents, Taylor Swift’s video for Bad Blood has finally arrived.

Debuted at the Billboard awards, the video seems to invoke Swift’s apparent feud with Katy Perry, seeing Swift’s character Catastrophe betrayed by a black-wigged Selena Gomez as Arsyn. Catastrophe retreats to her lair and assembles a group of warrior women for a final showdown.

The video swaps out Swift’s verses for two verses from rapper Kendrick Lamar, and is brimming with style and playful nods.

Here’s our pick of Bad Blood’s coolest moments.

1) Swiftly dispatched

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After a curiously quiet opening, Taylor’s character Catastrophe hurtles into the frame to take down a henchman, slamming him down with her legs and finishing off her move by applying lipstick. What an entrance!

2) London falling

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Catastrophe’s feud with Selena Gomez’s Arsyn is kicked off by a betrayal which sees Catastrophe booted out of a window against the London skyline – fair enough grounds for a grudge.

3) Incredible credits

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A soon-to-be iconic moment here, with the Sin City-esque title font appearing alongside Catastrophe, who’s artfully landed on the roof of a classic car.

4) Hell in a handbag

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We’re already adding this our Christmas list – Cara Delevingne’s Mother Chucker has a handbag with a handle that turns into a pair of nunchucks as deadly as her eyebrows. Amazing.

5) Flare up

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Bad Blood director Joseph Khan has one hell of a back catalogue, including Britney’s Toxic video. We bet that Taylor’s catsuit and Perspex mask look will become as iconic as Britney’s blue air hostess get-up.

6) Back with a bang

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Catastrophe is back for revenge against Arsyn, and she’s blowing up London in the process. What’s Taylor’s beef with Canary Wharf?

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7) New ‘do, new you

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TAYLOR SWIFT WITH RED HAIR ALERT. The course for revenge sees Catastrophe steal a bit of style from fellow video star and Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams, going all fiery-redhead for the final showdown.

8) Blowing up

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Ellie Goulding opens fire with a massive rocket launcher, pulling the face that we’d all probably pull in the same situation.

9) High kick

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Zendaya’s Cut Throat appears to be a fan of Kingsman, displaying a similarly razor-footed approach to combat to that film’s assassin Gazelle and slicing through the neck of a soldier dummy.

10) Lena’s smoking

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Lena Dunham doesn’t see much action in the video as Lucky Fiori, but she sure knows how to smoke a huge cigar like a true femme fatale.

Bad Blood is available now on iTunes

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