Wildest Dreams MV accused of being RACIST.

[Cody Draco 2,531]

Back in the era that the music video is based on/set in whites dominated the movie industry. Artistically it wouldn't really make sense for there to be a black director/actors.

Also, white people should be able to visually celebrate their own race. We are beautiful just like the rest. 

 

[Sunday 2,183]

Does everything in the world have something to do with racism nowadays ?

[River 117,090]

Wow so this is how they want to bring her down? with a cheap racism accuses??

Those who wrote this article and those who thinks that the MV is racist ARE THE RACISTS!

[Whispering 18,865]

Yeah, they were sent to radios, but they were barely played. Stop lying. Besides their lyric and music videos, what other promotion they actually had? Birthday only had a pre-recorded performance at Billboard Music Awards, that was about it. This Is How We Do didn't even have any performances. Both singled had very little to no promo.

Anyway, this had nothing to do with Katy. The fact that you turned this whole thing about Katy just goes out to show how pressed you are. 

Birthday actually made it up to number 7 on Pop radio, which was two spots higher than Unconditionally, although both made it to the top ten on BB. That's not a lie or an opinion, that's a fact. It's AirPlay outpaced the iTunes placement by s large margin. People simply weren't here for that lame single. That single helped set up the next underperformer, that ended up being a flop. Like Birthday, TIHWD's AirPlay ended up outpacing it's sad placement on iTunes during its run. Pop radio played it, music listeners just didn't care for it! People were even less interested in that single. 

You are the one going on and on about Katy. I was responding to your incorrect statements about Katy's last two singles. 

[Cody Draco 2,531]

This is laughable. It a movie set, she's not representing Africa as a country nor its culture. It's a 1930s/40s era American movie crew filming a movie. People have to just sit around a look for stuff to complain about. There are actual racial problems going on in the world. Can we write an article about that instead of pulling a bulls*** racist claim out of our ass and trying to bring down a successful female musician just because there's apparently not enough s*** happening in the world for us to write online news articles about?

Thank you for seeing right thru the bullsh*t.

 

[venusian 4,686]

I don't disagree, but if you direct a video in a mostly white country, do you only have a couple of white people in it? 

I do not see that as bad. 

yeah i agree, its just a misrepresentation

[retroglamx 5,177]

The media would have thrown sh1t at Taylor if she had African people cast. So in the words of Kylie Jenner: Mad if I don't, Mad if I do... Go hang w Perez Hilton or something.

[GHGUY 230]

Joseph Kahn: I have super hot black friends, I'm not racist

https://mobile.twitter.com/JosephKahn/status/639239795760308225

 

he's so vile 

[Redstreak 6,653]

This is not racist because it's white people in Africa. Nor because it has this safari backdrop.

It is just making look like colonialism by westerners is a "good time" we can be nostalgic about.  Do people here realize the consequences colonialism have still nowadays ?  It's not romantic,  it's not glamorous and it harmed a lot of people so of all the places Taylor Swift and her team could have picked for that generic fairytale I find it of very bad taste especially with the current issues with POC in her own country.  Plus how is Africa or it's culture serving the plot ?

 

Do you know what colonialism is? I fail to see how shooting a video in a safari and pretending it was set in the 1950's has anything to do with colonialism. Are we no longer allowed to touch anything pre-2000 because unrelated bad things happened in certain parts of the world?

[TiphEret 1,320]

Do you know what colonialism is? I fail to see how shooting a video in a safari and pretending it was set in the 1950's has anything to do with colonialism. Are we no longer allowed to touch anything pre-2000 because unrelated bad things happened in certain parts of the world?

yes I do i's one of the problematic I study in my master thank you...  There is a lot more to say regarding the way this video portray Africa bit to me the worst is I don't see how it serves the plot. 

[Born Brave 2,072]

Why is everything a topic of racism now

[Redstreak 6,653]

yes I do i's one of the problematic I study in my master thank you...  There is a lot more to say regarding the way this video portray Africa bit to me the worst is I don't see how it serves the plot. 

it doesn't portray Africa as anything. In the middle of safari I fail to see how one could make a statement either way of colonialism and its effects on the people or present an image of said topic when it doesn't touch any facet of the video. They were shooting a "film" I'm sure within the music video the setting had a lot of ways of serving that plot. Pray tell how would you have done the video?

[TiphEret 1,320]

it doesn't portray Africa as anything. In the middle of safari I fail to see how one could make a statement either way of colonialism and its effects on the people or present an image of said topic when it doesn't touch any facet of the video. They were shooting a "film" I'm sure within the music video the setting had a lot of ways of serving that plot. Pray tell how would you have done the video?

The way I see it is that once again it shows how people just come to Africa and see it as a nice and exotic background: see my word: Africa, it's a continent and in a continent there is so much diversity. After watching the video I think it could be close to the Victoria falls but i might be wrong. I just don't see the point, because the video could have been made in any other location, even in the US at the same era. I think they were aware they could get backlash especially with everything regarding Blacklivesmatter happening in the US and such. So why portrays Africa with white people in it at a time when respecting the local culture wasn't clearly a custom. You set it in the 40's, sure the filming set would be that time but they are recording a story that to me seem to be set in the colonial time, people exploring the continent and such as a big playground. I have lived in Zambia, (one of the country where the Victoria Falls are) so yes it bothers me, the African continent isn't a postcard for other people to take advantage of. I wonder if African workers were involved as well.

How would have I done the video? That's interesting, the cinematography was good, the plot terrible but i am not a fan of the song either, as I said I would have set it probably in a more neutral place or in the US as the location seem to not matter for the story anyways.

[StrawberryBlond 14,872]

This may not be what people were expecting but...I don't get the big deal. I honestly didn't believe that this would generate any heat because it's Taylor and because there's clearly no racism. But I was shocked when it did. As plenty of others have said, there is no depiction of racism, the storyline is set in the 50's on the set of a style of movie that was popular at the time (American explorers venturing into Africa) and everything is relevant to the time period (the cast and crew would be all white). I didn't realise that recapturing the reality of a time period was racist. There is nothing here to criticise, absolutely nothing.

But, to play devil's advocate to round it all off...if even I, a Swift hater, is defending her here, but some of the critics, media and public aren't, what does that say? Before now, the critics, media and public were on her side and I was against her. If even they've turned against her and I can't find any reason to support their criticism, what does that suggest? That her backlash is truly occuring. The Spotify thing and the Twitter fight were just an overture because they had valid reasons for criticism. This issue has no valid reason for criticism and yet people are picking on her. And some of them aren't even the haters. Now that's the ultimate signal that a backlash has commenced. Come to think of it, this is the third criticism of percieved racism Taylor has endured this era. First it was her twerking, urban clothes and use of black women in SIO being called cultural appropriation, then the dismissal of Nicki's accusations of racist media on Twitter and now this. That's a lot of racism accusations for one era. I think a lot of it is BS but still...three accusations is a lot.

That being said, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, you should really let these types of posts to Strawberry. Not that what she says is valid, but she really pulls it off better.

Thanks for that wonderful backhanded compliment, but there was no need to downtalk someone else in the process. Katycat has much right to free speech as the rest of us.

[Katsuki Bakugo 9,788]

I feel like these people sit in their offices and go... spin this story to make it sound like she is this or that... but they don't actually contribute proper stories at all. 

 

its a ****ing music video - she isn't trying to stop world hunger...