Taylor Swift: Bad Blood

Plot synopsis:
A young lady executive, a beleaguered Taylor Swift, her top apparently ripped off, down to not much more than her short skirt and sheer stockings, fights for her life against several assailants in an office on the top floor of a high-rise building, and is unexpectedly aided in her struggle by a mysterious dubious-looking superheroine type called Arsyn. Not that she really needed help, she was doing fine on her own, dishing out defiance. Just as their battle seems won, though, she is, for no apparent reason, betrayed by her buddy, treacherously tossed out the window, to fall down onto the collapsing roof of a Jaguar sports car far down below, where the beauty lies stunned.Suviving, she joins a training facility where she becomes a superheroine crimefighter. Calling herself Catastrophe.The words of the song refer to the unassailable rift in the former friendship between Taylor and Katy, and the whole video is about betrayal by a former friend turned mortal enemy. "Oh, it's so sad to think about the good times, you and I...""And now we got drama... You made a really deep cut..."Team Taylor turned up in full force to show their support. Selena Gomez appears as Arsyn, our heroine's nemesis, with a hint at (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) Katy Perry. Lena Dunham is cigar-smoking Lucky Fiori. The Trinity, a self-duplicated group of three, is played by Hailee Steinfeld. Serayah is Dilemma, and Gigi Hadid is Slay-Z. As Destructa X, nobody less than Ellie Goulding, who has a knack for handling a rocket launcher. Martha Hunt is HomeSlice, Cara Delevingne is Mother Chucker, Zandaya appears as Cut-Throat. Hayley Williams in a cheap red dodgy-looking fright wig as The Crimson Curse, Lily Aldridge as Frostbyte, Karlie Kloss as Knockout, and former Dark Angel lead Jessica Alba as Domino. Further rounding out the cast are Mariska Hargitay as Justice, Ellen Pompeo as Luna, and surprise, surprise, original supermodel Cindy Crawford as Headmistress. Truth is though, this plentitude of bravura characters all appear fleetingly, and keeping track of them would be difficult at best. Suffice to say that Taylor shines the brightest, and, gee, that's the game plan. Flying kicks are delivered, nubile costumed bodies dash about, Catastrophe more than holds her own against whomever dares to stand in her way, good triumphs over evil, at the cost of an exploding city.But the damage has been done. "Band-aids don't fix bullet holes..." All because of nasty Katy, er, Arsyn..."So take a look at what you've done... We used to have mad love..."{posted by a Swiftie who thinks the two talented ladies should make up and be friends again, at least end the feud, come on!}

Tags: sci-fi

Review:
pointless and empty. The star is Taylor Swift and a host of other famous people. That's nice, but then, they appear, in a flash, and then, somebody else, so big deal! Big deal! Look, we're here to see the Taylster, and behold in here just how beautiful the Taylster really is, so, please! keep the other lot, and just give us the Taylster pleez?Count them, there are seventeen star-billed girls here, a whole lot going on, but a music video is by its very nature too short to accommodate so many characters, so it's really all a waste.The song itself is also not exactly genius, huh? Should such a classy lady, such an elegant white swan, be associating herself with a rapper? Instant down-class. Imagine a yacht, a grand three masted schooner, sailing in polluted waters. Rappers simply drown out everything else with their staccato rattle, do we, the fans, want this for our heroine?Not that I could give it the far lower score it deserves after seeing beautiful Taylor in those dramatic facial shots towards the end, with the raging inferno background. Next time, something simpler, just Taylor. Fancy, yes, but not the whole gang.. Style over substance. I have to say "Bad Blood" is the first time where I am slightly disappointed with a Taylor Swift music video. It's nice that she got all these famous names in here and says a lot about how big of a star she currently is, but it's not okay to sacrifice the essential components for that. I thought the tune was less catchy than most of her previous works and Swift's videos always had the strength that they told a bit of a story in a convincing way. This one does not and it certainly not an honor to Swift that she is listed as the writer here. Also, most of her songs had the advantage that not only the chorus was catchy, but the whole thing. This one does not have much more than a chorus and Swift is really screaming that one more than singing. I very much hope that she can return back to essentialism again with her next songs. Of course, "Bad Blood" has written girl power all over it, but you have to back such a statement up with substance somehow and not just with lining up famous actresses one after the other. Not recommended.. Taylor Swift over rated. Taylor Swift is so much over rated in all that she does, you take away the millions dollars and she nothing!