Taylor Swift- Bad Blood | Video Review w/ Lakaiya & Nat

Lakaiya

For two weeks Taylor teased her 57 million followers on Twitter with the star-studded cast of the Bad Blood video and revealed their kickass alias’. From Ellie Goulding as Destructa X, Zendaya as Cut Throat to Cara Delevingne as Mother Chucker – one thing was for certain, Bad Blood would be as fierce as a music video could be.

Remember in 2011 when Lady Gaga released her epic but equally unnecessarily 13 minute long video for Marry The Night from her Born This Way album? With all the promotion behind the Bad Blood video – and hype behind the characters you’d be right in thinking surely Taylor was going to take a leaf out of Gaga’s book and give us a mini film/project thing... right?

Well sadly not. Which really is unfortunate, because even though the Bad Blood video is a complete triumph you can’t help but think; “this should’ve been longer!” as some of cameos are that short it seems pointless to even have them in the video in the first place. Like Hayley Williams as The Crimson Curse who was only in the video for 8 seconds (I counted). EIGHT SECONDS! Blasphemous!

While watching Bad Blood for the first time – pop music enthusiasts all over the world (like me of course) might notice that they have seen some aspects of the video done previously from Britney Spears’ Womanizer and Toxic videos. So it comes as no surprise that Joseph Kahn directed all three videos, maybe it was done as a little homage to Ms. Spears –who knows?

One thing is for certain though, sales for 1989 will sky rocket again because of the heroic video and girls (and guys too) all over the world will want to be as resilient as Taylor Swift as Catastrophe while still looking that insanely pretty. The video is great; I can only hope that I find a school for assassins’ with indestructible, fierce women as mentors. Major squad goals.

Nat

The only problem with Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood spectacle is that all that hype and all those famous faces add up to a four-minute video. Doing a Gaga 10 minute feature-length video would have been so worth all those film style posters and whatever. Featuring stars like Cara Delevingne, Hayley Williams and Selena Gomez all in their alter egos, the video is a hot mess of leather and explosions. Not complaining though. It’s a good hot mess.

The inclusion of Kendrick Lamar and introducing a much better beat than the album version of Bad Blood, gives it that well-needed edge to stray from Shake It Off and Style. This, along with the video, has made Swift a force to be reckoned with. Seems she has plenty of friends to do without Katy Perry, who the song is rumoured to be about, with a grand total of 16 leather-clad beauties and Lena Dunham.

And seeing Ellie Goulding armed with an RPG in all that leather is a swoon-worthy sight to behold.