MADONNA busted out new single “Ghosttown” from her new album “Rebel Heart” at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, accompanied on guitar by Taylor Swift. The music video also enlisted some star power, this time from the Empire family. Terrence Howard, aka Lucious Lyon, aka the lead of this season’s biggest TV show, is one of three survivors in the aptly titled post-apocalyptic wasteland.

    Madonna is impeccably dressed in steampunk-type garb, wielding a golf club as protection, whereas Howard adorns a torn-up tux and a freaking sniper rifle. And then they meet and realize the other isn’t all that bad. And then they lustily dance. And then a cute little kid and wolf pop out, and they happily walk off, with hope of finding a town not smoking and demolished.

    After waking up in the scourge of a nuked-out world, Madonna feels her way through the deserted society, while Howard’s brooding loner suspiciously looks on. Eventually the two humans come into contact, inching toward each other until clasping their hands and dancing the forbidden dance of the last man and woman on earth. “Ghosttown” makes for a fitting soundtrack to the impressive choreographed sequence, although the image of a weary Howard proudly grasping the hand of a boy at the end of the video makes one long for a few seconds of “Drip Drop” as well.

    Jonas Akerlund helmed the new music video after directing the clips for Madonna singles like “Ray of Light” and “Music,” among others. Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” was released last month. A behind-the-scenes companion to the “Ghosttown” video is currently available from Tidal.

    (SD-Agencies)