In advance of hosting the MTV VMAs on Sunday, Katy Perry has dropped the music video to her Taylor Swift feud song, "Swish Swish." And while it's not a "Bad Blood" rip off like her teasers lead some to believe, it is a hot mess of a basketball match with a Netflix star-studded cast (Stranger Things and GLOW stars included) and a couple of Swift nods.
The video starts with Perry's basketball version of the "Bad Blood" wipeout prologue:
...before going into a match-up between Perry's underdog team, the Tigers, versus the Sheep. (Get it, or nah?) The team art and mascot for the wolves/sheep are pretty much the least subtle reference to Perry's infamous feud-inflaming "Regina George in sheep's clothing" tweet:
Nicki Minaj also performing her part of the song, looking the most fierce in an outfit that could've been in the "Bad Blood" video:
It's all very extra but, then again Perry promised a "catastrophe," a word she likely used as a reference to Swift's "Bad Blood" character, Catastrophe.
Watch it here:
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