Taylor Swift as the next action hero?

Apparently so. After a steady drip-feed of teasers over the past week, Taylor Swift's kick-ass Bad Blood music video has finally been revealed, kicking off the 2015 Billboard Awards.

Epic in scale, the Tarantino-esque, cameo-laden clip features Swift and an entourage of famous faces including Lena Dunham, Hailee Steinfeld, Cindy Crawford, Mariska Hargitay, Jessica Alba and more. The only significant male character is Welvin Da Great, played by Kendrick Lamar, who raps throughout the track. 

The high-action futuristic thriller features several martial-arts style sequences, opening with Swift battling Selena Gomez, who plays a character called Arsyn and pushes Swift out of a high-rise window. Other characters include Brit pop singer Ellie Goulding as Destructa X and model Cara Delevingne as Mother Chucker. 

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There's also a boxing bout, explosions, motorbikes and weapons in the clip, directed by Joseph Kahn. Kahn also helmed Swift's Blank Space video.

Swift was one of the early winners at the Las Vegas ceremony, picking up the award for top Billboard 200 album for 1989.