Posted on 09/02/2015 7:50:24 PM PDT by xp38
Taylor Swift's latest music video is being battered by critics who claim it is racist and pandering to 'rich white fantasies' from a colonial era. The video for Wildest Dreams, which was revealed during the MTV VMA Awards coverage on Sunday, has a mainly white cast and revolves around two 1950s-era movie stars - played by Swift and Gran Torino actor Scott Eastwood - filming in Africa. There are only two black actors, who play soldiers, and they appear in the background. The mock film crew are white. Director Joseph Khan insists the video is a 'love story' and has no political agenda. But music fans have rushed to Twitter to describe it as 'colonial garbage'.
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It’s my favorite song on the album. I wanted to go see her in concert (and I am way over 15) but I have to pay my kids’ tuition and food and stuff. I think she is brilliant.
I haven’t seen the video.
It’s like people can’t be white any more but neither can white people attempt to be black. I guess we are superfluous on the planet to liberals.
Waiting patiently to hear what Kanye says.
Thanks for posting the link. You are right - there’s not one thing racist about it - in fact it has to be about the longest leap to find something to be offended about.
Mylie Cyrus (Trump is a fan) is basically a pop porn star at this point, I’m not sure how much farther into the gutter she could possibly go. Too bad all these other celebutards want to follow suit.
I seriously think that all the music videos and crap should be 18+ these days
Me and a Good Friend of mine are going to see her in concert when she comes to KC on September 22nd (can't wait!)
And Ditto, Wildest Dreamsis Taylor's Best Song on the 1989 Album: For your viewing and listening pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdneKLhsWOQ
Well, I guess I wished I looked like Scott Eastwood, LOL!
Are there videos pandering to black fantasies?
Are they racist?
That’s was good too Joe 6-Pack. Thanks.
What do those black people want her to do? Make a Tarzan movie?
Island Girl-Elton John
I see your teeth flash, Jamaican honey so sweet
Down where Lexington cross 47th Street
She’s a big girl, she’s standing six foot three
Turning tricks for the dudes in the big city
chorus:
Island girl
What you wanting with the white man’s world
Island girl
Black boy want you in his island world
He want to take you from the racket boss
He want to save you but the cause is lost
Island girl, island girl, island girl
Tell me what you wanting with the white man’s world
She’s black as coal but she burn like a fire
And she wrap herself around you like a well worn tire
You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake
He one more gone, he one more John who make the mistake
Thanks for letting me watch the video. I agree, best song on the album and I can’t get it out of my head each time I hear it. I love it. The video did the song justice; it’s awesome from start to finish.
And she gives every penny the video makes to some African wildlife charity.
I only saw white people in that video. They are filming an African love story movie in 1930s. If any black people were in the video they must have been way in the background.
In order to call this movie racist, you need to call any white person who ever went to Africa for any reason ever racist. It’s more than preposterous to call this racist.
How many people go to Africa and hire a bunch of locals to make a video? She is glorifying Africa and their wildlife, so more people will go there on safari. She is giving potentially millions to African wildlife. But yeah, she is RACIST. HOW THE BLEEPING HELL do they come up with this stupidity?
She will shake it off, just like Trump, because this accusation is childish elephant bullpoop!
This video is beautiful and so is the song; check it out if you haven’t.
I swear I would have gone ALONE and sat in the back row. But we just moved and I could not afford it (she was here for 4 nights... I cringed each night cause I wished I was there. Next album.). I really wanted to. You have a great time!
Come on, you just wanna be in one of her songs, LOL! I think the mystery is half the fun. She is unbelievably smart and talented.
And whoever she wrote Wildest for, what a lucky guy he was...
(Taylor Swift Thumbs Up!)
Thanks for letting me watch the video. I agree, best song on the album and I can’t get it out of my head each time I hear it. I love it. The video did the song justice; it’s awesome from start to finish.
Yes! I agree 110%, Much better than Bad Blood when the "Re Mixed" it with Kendrick Lamar, ugh.
I must admit I had my worries about the Music Video when it was announced this was her next single.
But man-o-man did it deliver!
Love the 30's theme, honestly not how I envisioned it when first heard it, but very tasteful and well directed. 10/10.
P.S. I couldn't help but noticed that in the vid they are SMOKING! GASP! Cigars! (Like you would in the 30's!)
Back then a lot of Elton’s songs mentioned hookers. I’m guessing they hung around the parts of Jamaica and elsewhere where the gays and hookers hung out. He was in the closet back then.
I did that decades ago. It’s wonderfully liberating, you should try it.
(Hugs!)
I swear I would have gone ALONE and sat in the back row. But we just moved and I could not afford it (she was here for 4 nights... I cringed each night cause I wished I was there. Next album.). I really wanted to. You have a great time!
AWWW! My Heart Breaks Yaelle!
I take it you live near L.A.?
She is here in Kansas City for Two nights, I got her on the second.
I will have a great time! Me and My Friend went and seen the Katy Perry Concert last year and it was Pretty Effing Wild, I know Taylor's will blow our socks off!
Come on, you just wanna be in one of her songs, LOL! I think the mystery is half the fun. She is unbelievably smart and talented.
:D
Taylor is the Musical voice of us Millennials that for sure. We are making our mark!
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