Taylor Swift’s new music video for her song Wildest Dreams, has been criticised for being racist and has been called a “white colonial fantasy”.
According to DailyMail.co.uk, one critic, Viviane Rutabingwa from National Public Radio, said, “We are shocked to think that in 2015, Taylor Swift, her record label and her video production group would think it was okay to film a video that presents a glamorous version of the white colonial fantasy of Africa.”
The director Joseph Khan, however, released a statement saying, “This is... a love story on the set of a period film crew in Africa, 1950... The creatives who worked on this video are people of colour. We collectively decided it would have been inaccurate to load the crew with more black actors as the video would have beeen accused of rewriting history.”
