With Super Bowl XLVI just days away, halftime show headliner Madonna returns to the front lines with the video for “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” the first single from her 12th album MDNA, due March 26. The pop queen assembles an all-star team of femme fatales for the cheerleading and football-themed visuals, directed by Megaforce.

Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. raise their pom poms as they flank the Material Girl in cheerleading outfits, and Young Money’s First Lady delivers her own feisty verse as her alter ago Roman Zolanski. “I’m Roman, I’m a barbarian, I’m Conan,” she raps.

Madonna expressed her admiration for her co-stars. “I love [Nicki and M.I.A.] and I wanted to collaborate with both of them on my record because I’m a big fan of their music, but also I like their independence,” she told Anderson Cooper. “They’re cheeky and unique and they have individual voices and they’re not conventional pop stars, and I really admire them both.”

The trio will perform the song live for the first time at Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show in Indianapolis.

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Make way for M.I.A. The pop crusader storms Morocco in a BMW in the action-packed video for “Bad Girls,” the first single from her fourth album, due this summer. “Live fast, die young, bad girls do it well,” she chants on the Danja-produced banger. The gritty visuals, directed by Romain Gavras (“Born Free”), were shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

“It was dope to have so many people from so many different backgrounds speaking so many different languages come together to create something that we believed in,” said M.I.A. “I thought I was gonna die on the shoot when I saw the drifting. It was a four day shoot so everyone was on edge the whole time specifically ME when I had to do bluesteel singing to the camera while the cars did doughnuts on the wet road ten feet away. In my mind I was thinking how I was gonna deliver the video to Vice with no legs.”

Watch the dangerous results below.

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Put your pom poms up. Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. join Madonna’s cheerleading squad in the Megaforce-directed video for “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” the first single from the Material Girl’s 12th album MDNA (March 26). A one-minute preview aired tonight on “American Idol,” and the full video will premiere on YouTube tomorrow at 9 a.m. EST.

“I love [Nicki and M.I.A.] actually and I wanted to collaborate with both of them on my record because I’m a big fan of their music, but also I like their independence, I like their spirit,” Madonna told Anderson Cooper. “They’re cheeky and unique and they have individual voices and they’re not conventional pop stars, and I really admire them both.”

Both ladies will join the pop queen at Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show in Indianapolis. “Omfg. Madonna’s show is about to murdaaaa everything movinggg. Wow. Such a surreal moment,” tweeted Nicki during rehearsals.

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M.I.A. is coming back with power, power. With less than a day to go until her video for the Danja-produced “Bad Girls” premieres, the rebellious artist offers a sneak peek with two photos from the shoot. Maya turns a BMW on its side as she rides through the Middle East in one scene. The video, directed by Romain Gavras (“Born Free”), will debut online tomorrow and she will perform with Madonna and Nicki Minaj at this Sunday’s Super Bowl.

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Nicki Minaj unleashes her alter ego Roman Zolanski on a 90-second snippet of Madonna’s “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” the first single from her 12th studio album MDNA. You can also hear M.I.A. on the finished version of the Martin Solveig production. The song and video will debut in full tomorrow.

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M.I.A. has remained out of the spotlight since the release of 2010’s /\/\/\Y/\. Today she resurfaced with a new single “Bad Girls,” produced by Danja, and her first interview in months. Speaking with BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe from the Super Bowl rehearsals, the firecracker femcee dished on her upcoming performance with Madonna at Sunday’s halftime show, collaborating with the pop queen, and her fourth album, due this summer.

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“Live fast, die young, bad girls do it well,” chants M.I.A. on “Bad Girls,” the first single from her upcoming fourth album, due this summer. An early version of the rattling Danja production appeared on her 2011 mixtape Vicki Leekx, and the final song will hit iTunes tomorrow. A video, directed by Romain Gavras (“Born Free”) will premiere Friday, the same day as her collaboration with Madonna and Nicki Minaj (“Gimme All Your Luvin’”). And then there’s that little thing called the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.

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Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. join Madonna’s cheerleading squad in the brief teaser for “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” the first single from the pop queen’s upcoming album MDNA (March 26). A longer preview will air Thursday on “American Idol,” with the full video and song premiering February 3.

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