Lena Dunham, Kendrick Lamar to Play Noir Badasses in Taylor Swift’s Next Music Video


After the womp-womp that was her last video, “Style,” Taylor Swift has decided to turn things up a notch for her next offering by inviting a handful of her famous pals to star as elaborate, funny-named noir characters. She tweeted a hint about the video, for the song “Bad Blood,” yesterday evening, explaining that each star chose their own name and persona:

https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/597579566140370944

Swift is going to be CATastrophie, if you didn’t get that already:

And then she shared the names of the other stars, tweeting movie-poster images of each of them throughout the day:

Actress/author Lena Dunham

https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/597519999557767168

Rapper Kendrick Lamar

https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/597755008726110208

Actor Hailee Steinfeld

https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/597441917949841409

Singer Ellie Goulding

https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/597128949685030913

Supermodel Gigi Hadid

https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/597023546435481600

Paramore’s Hayley Williams

https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/596765804688867328

Disney Channel star Zendaya

https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/596665608860631040

Victoria’s Secret model Lily Aldridge

https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/596418737693036545

The video, now quite the highly anticipated event, debuts on during the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 17th.