Taylor Swift is making adjustments to her “Anti-Hero” music video after followers accuse her of fat-shaming.
The musician got here below assault when followers reacted negatively to a scene within the video the place Swift stands on a scale and it reads “fats” in a tune with lyrics like “Generally I really feel like everyone is a horny child / And I’m a monster on the hill.”
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The video has since been altered to take away that scene on Apple Music. The YouTube add of the video, nonetheless, stays unchanged on the time of writing.
When Swift first promoted the video on Instagram, she described the pictures within the video as her personal “nightmare eventualities and intrusive ideas [playing] out in actual time.”
The 32-year-old artist has beforehand spoken about her difficulties with physique picture, opening up how on-line criticism impacts her self-image in her documentary “Miss Americana”.
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“It’s solely occurred a couple of instances, and I’m not in any means happy with it,” she stated as she admitted she noticed “an image of me the place I really feel like I regarded like my tummy was too large, or… somebody stated that I regarded pregnant … and that’ll simply set off me to simply starve a bit bit — simply cease consuming.”
Reactions to the second within the music video various on-line with some calling it “fatphobic” whereas others defended as deeply private to Swift, calling it a “critique” of herself.