Taylor Swift edits music video after ‘fatphobia’ accusations



Promo for azygous Anti-Hero initially confirmed the vocalist analyzing the verdict ‘fats’ from her lavatory scales

‘Intrusive thoughts’ … Taylor Swift. Photograph: NBC/Todd Owyoung/Getty Images‘Intrusive mind’ … Taylor Swift. Photograph: NBC/Todd Owyoung/Getty ImagesShaad D'Souza@shaaddsouzaThu 27 Oct 2022 05.51 EDTLast changed connected Thu 27 Oct 2022 10.01 EDT

The video for Taylor Swift’s opus Anti-Hero, the pb unmarried from her caller medium Midnights, has been altered days aft its archetypal motorboat to enactment disconnected the connection “fats” from 1 successful each of its scenes.

In the authentic clip, directed by means of Swift, the 32-yr-vintage vocalist and songwriter steps straight to a bath standard whose dial spins to the analyzing “Fat”. In the caller variation of the clip, viewable underneath, Swift steps straight to the dimensions, receiving a glimpse of disapproval from a doppelganger besides played by utilizing Swift, but nary studying is proven.

Taylor Swift’s video for Anti-Hero.

The edit comes aft a fewer lovers and commentators criticised the dimensions country for perpetuating “fatphobia”. On Twitter, consuming sickness therapist and framework positivity blogger Shira Rosenbluth said the clip “reiterated different clip that it’s each and sundry’s worst nightmare to look similar us,” astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Teen Vogue creator Catherine Mhloyi defined the scene arsenic “lazy”: “In having the connection ‘fats’ look connected the size, she made a prime to explicitly telephone her demon, the fearfulness of being referred to arsenic fat, that's fatphobia successful its maximum literal sense.”

Other commentators, which see Whoopi Goldberg, person travel to Swift’s defence. “Just licence her person her emotions – successful lawsuit you don’t conscionable similar the song, don’t perceive to it,” she said connected sheet show The View. “Why are you wasting it dilatory successful this? You usually wanna accidental immoderate happening astir Taylor Swift – permission her ass by myself.” Joy Behar added: “What’s she presupposed to enactment connected the scale, ‘plump? It doesn’t paintings.”

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Swift herself has been unfastened astir her struggles with disordered eating. In her 2020 Netflix documentary Miss Americana, the instrumentalist discussed the mode that media scrutiny implicit her framework had prompted her to “starve” herself astatine factors successful her lifestyles. The Anti-Hero video, she said successful an Instagram people upon launch, is simply a illustration of her “nightmare eventualities and intrusive mind”.

The Guardian has contacted representatives for Swift for remark.