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News |  03 Sep 2015 19:46 |  By IANS

Taylor Swift's new video criticised for being 'racist'

MUMBAI: Singer Taylor Swift's latest music video for her new single ‘Wildest dreams’ is being battered by critics who claim it is racist and pandering to ‘rich white fantasies’ from a colonial era.

The video, which was revealed during the MTV Video Music Award, has a mainly white cast and revolves around two 1950s-era movie stars - played by Swift and 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. The footage was also slammed by a number of editorials.

Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams

Joseph Kahn, director of ‘Wildest dreams’, 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’. “'Wildest Dreams' is a song about a relationship that was doomed, and the music video concept was that they were having a love affair on location away from their normal lives.

This is not a video about colonialism but a love story on the set of a period film crew in Africa, 1950,” Kahn said in a statement. ‘Wildest dreams’ is a part of Swift's fifth studio album ‘1989’.

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