MusicTaylor Swift’s brand new music video has already been edited after five days. The scene where she walks up a ladder and the word “fat” appears is no longer visible in the clip. The singer received some criticism for the video last week.
Taylor Swift no longer looks at the scales in the new clip on Apple Music, according to “Variety”, but a doppelgänger of himself with a disappointed look. The discredited scene is still visible on YouTube.
Last Friday the clip of ‘Anti-Hero’, Taylor Swift’s latest single, was released. The singer herself describes the metaphorically rich video as “a sketch of her nightmares and intrusive thoughts”. You see her as a gigantic monster who takes up (too much) space with her friends and how her future children fight over their inheritance.
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The clip has already been viewed more than 33 million times, but it also receives negative reactions. This mostly has to do with a specific scene: the shot where she steps on a ladder telling her she’s “fat”. From the side, her doppelganger looks disapprovingly.
Critics took to Twitter to express their dismay. For example, one wrote: ‘Portraying being fat as something bad, as something to be afraid of, is inexplicable. The fear of being fat is the beginning of fatphobia. Having an eating disorder doesn’t relieve you of it, even if you’re Taylor Swift. ‘
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The writer refers to Swift’s problems with her body image and eating behavior. She was first opened up about it in the documentary “Miss Americana”, later she also talked to “Variety” about her about her eating disorder. “When I first appeared on the cover of a magazine at age 18, the headline was ’18 and pregnant? ‘ I was wearing something that didn’t make my stomach flat, “she told the magazine at the time.
Despite criticism, Taylor Swift broke a record one day after the release of her 10th album “Midnights”. No records were streamed that much on the first day after the release in the history of Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music. While it is still unclear how many streams “Midnights” became the most streamed album on the first day after release, the record is known to be currently # 1 in 90 countries on Apple Music’s streaming list.
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