Bad Blood - Taylor Swift is a song by American recording artist Taylor Swift, from her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). The single version, featuring American hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar, was released on May 17, 2015 by Republic Records. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo "Bad Blood - Taylor Swift" first charted at the US Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in November 2014 and January 2015 as an album cut from 1989, peaking at No. 78. Following the music video premiere at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, the remixed version of the song featuring Kendrick Lamar re-entered the chart at No. 53 and No. 26 at the Digital Songs Chart selling 47,000 digital copies. To date, the song has sold 514,000 digital copies. The song is predicted to sell between 300,000 and 350,000 digital downloads in the week ending May 24. The music video premiered on May 17, 2015, at the start of the Billboard Music Awards. Each actor chose their character's name. Taylor Swift began teasing the video in May on Instagram by posting photos of each character. The video broke Vevo's 24-hour viewing record by accumulating 20.1 million views in its first day of release, beating the 19.6 million 24-hour record previously held by Nicki Minaj for the music video of her song, "Anaconda", in 2014. The music video starts with Catastrophe (Taylor Swift) and Arsyn (Selena Gomez) fighting off a group of men wearing suits in an office somewhere in London. When all of the men are defeated, Arsyn decides to betray Catastrophe by kicking her out of a window. The song begins with Catastrophe laying on a broken car, as Welvin da Great (Kendrick Lamar) begins to rap his verse. Catastrophe is shown being nursed back to health by The Trinity (Hailee Steinfeld), and after some time, she is ready to start training for her revenge. She is shown training in different scenarios with all of the other characters in the video, including knife-fighting with Cut-Throat (Zendaya), boxing with Knockout (Karlie Kloss), riding motorcycles with Domino (Jessica Alba), and others. When her training is complete, Catastrophe and her friends exact their revenge on Arsyn and her henchmen. The two teams approach each other while an enormous explosion goes off in the background, blotting out the London skyline, including 30 St Mary Axe, and the video ends with both of the women simultaneously striking each other in the face. ===== Taylor Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Taylor Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Taylor Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. Her third single, "Our Song," made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 2008 Grammy Awards. Taylor Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me," Fearless became the best-selling album of 2009 in the United States. The album won four Grammy Awards, making Taylor Swift the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Taylor Swift's third and fourth albums, 2010's Speak Now and 2012's Red, both sold more than one million copies within the first week of their U.S release. Speak Now's "Mean" won two Grammy Awards, while Red's singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble" were worldwide hits. Taylor Swift's fifth album, the pop-focused 1989, was released in 2014. It sold more copies in its opening week than any album in the previous 12 years, and made Taylor Swift the first and only act to have three albums sell more than one million copies in the opening release week. The singles "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space" both reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Taylor Swift is known for narrative songs about her personal experiences. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Taylor Swift's other achievements include seven Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, 11 Country Music Association Awards, eight Academy of Country Music Awards, and one Brit Award. She is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums - including 27.1 million in the U.S.—and 100 million single downloads. Taylor Swift has also had supporting roles in feature films including Valentine's Day (2010) and The Giver (2014). Taylor Swift Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlq7GT3nhMNNV-4VoNTxWdR8gAl7hO_KH

• published: 29 May 2015
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