Taylor Swift Will Debut “Bad Blood” Music Video At 2015 Billboard Music Awards

Bianca Gracie | May 7, 2015 6:30 am
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Taylor Swift plans to bring some “Bad Blood” to this year’s Billboard Music Awards! The pop starlet will premiere the music video for the 1989 single at the beginning of the ceremony.

Swift — who is up for four awards — announced the news on Instagram today (May 7), uploading a Quentin Tarantino-esque black + white poster that has the tagline “Band-aids don’t fix bullet holes” with Swift playing a character named Catastrophe. The video will be directed by Joseph Kahn, who recently worked on the singer’s “Blank Space” visual.

Mariah Carey, Fall Out Boy, Wiz KhalifaSam Smith, Nick Jonas and Hozier are all set to perform at the ceremony. Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea are also planning a “super surprise” for the live debut of their “Pretty Girls” single. Look out for the 2015 Billboard Music Awardswhen it airs live from Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, May 17, from 8-11 p.m. EST on ABC.

View the Instagram post in full below, and let us know in the comments if you’re excited to see the new video!

Meet Catastrophe. #BadBloodMusicVideo

A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on

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