Even pop princess and all-around goodie-two-shoes Taylor Swift isn’t good enough for 2015, with a new Swift video release being plagued by charges of racism from all the usual quarters.
The video for her song “Wildest Dreams” was released Sunday, and since then has garnered over 10 million views but not everyone is thrilled with it.
Swift colored her hair black for the video, which depicts and old 1940s Hollywood romance as Swift and actor Scott Eastwood find love while filming a movie in Africa, but drift apart when they return to the United States.
Shot in Ethiopia, the video is chock full of beautiful scenes and imagery, with elephants, giraffes, lions and other wildlife. It ends with a message stating that all of Swift’s proceeds from the video will go to the African Parks Foundation of America for its wild animal conservation efforts in Africa.
But that wasn’t good enough for the perpetually victimized, who blasted the video for “cultural appropriation,” its all-white cast and promotion of colonialism of 1940s Africa which in the minds of these delusional nitwits makes Swift a racist.
Then again, being white and rich on its own probably made her a racist in their minds already.
Here’s a sampling of some of the lunacy from social media.
it’s too bad that the video for “wildest dreams” is so colonial garbage because it’s prolly one of my favorite songs on the alb
— crystal (@crystalleww) September 1, 2015
The “Wildest Dreams” video is based on a racist trope, surprise multiple pop stars can be racist.
— catherine adultwoman (@madharriet) August 31, 2015
the ‘Wildest Dreams’ video is white ppl circa 1940s (?) in Africa shooting a colonial fantasy yikes
— Ayesha A. Siddiqi (@pushinghoops) August 31, 2015
I didn’t like the wildest dreams video, really not into rich white fantasies of Africa in the 1950s like… is that romantic?
— James Potter (@prooongs) August 31, 2015
Taylor Swift is clearly racist and her Wildest Dreams video confirms it. She went to Africa to film it but no black person in sight.
— Marcos Marc (@MarcosCastilloB) September 2, 2015
Taylor Swift is so drunk on power she thinks featuring black artists at some of her shows & on songs exempts her from being racist.
— Edgar Allan Poes (@ThatCjGeorge) September 2, 2015
Imperialism lives on in a white vessel called Taylor Swift https://t.co/3WtEMWQEQv Can we have a ‘Racist Video of the Year’ award?
— Ruby (@RubyLawrence92) September 2, 2015
Over T. Swift’s racist messages. I was so rooting for you, bb, but my wildest dreams are NOT of colonialism. http://t.co/tKRC8gBDN4
— Megan Reid (@meg_r) September 2, 2015
Is @taylorswift13 not aware of the legacy of colonialism in Africa or….???????? Know your history, sweetheart. #WildestDreamsVEVO
— Sydney Murray (@sydmurray) September 1, 2015
Is @taylorswift13 not aware of the legacy of colonialism in Africa or….???????? Know your history, sweetheart. #WildestDreamsVEVO
— Sydney Murray (@sydmurray) September 1, 2015
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