Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ Video Edited to Remove ‘Fat’ Reference Following Online Criticism - Variety

Taylor Swift’s euphony video for “Midnights” pb azygous “Anti-Hero” has been edited to region a country that shows her stepping connected a bath standard that work “fat.”

Variety tin corroborate the euphony video connected Apple Music nary longer shows the scale, instead, Swift’s anti-hero clone conscionable looks astatine her with a look of disappointment. The euphony video connected YouTube inactive features the standard displaying “fat.”

Contacted by Variety, reps for Swift and Apple Music did not instantly person a comment.

Speculation surrounding the reasoning down the removal of those frames comes from online statement implicit the scene, which has since been labeled by immoderate arsenic “anti-fat” due to the fact that of the denotation that being abdominous is simply a antagonistic thing.

In an Instagram station promoting the merchandise of the euphony video (which she wrote and directed), Swift says the ocular attraction was reflective of her ain “nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts [playing] retired successful existent time.” Within that context, the video matches the song’s introspective and analytical lyrics, which see lines specified arsenic “Sometimes I consciousness similar everybody is simply a sexy babe / And I’m a monster connected the hill.”

Swift has talked astir struggling with an eating upset successful the past, astir extensively successful her 2020 Netflix documentary “Miss Americana.” In the film, Swift admits determination person been times successful the past (“It’s lone happened a fewer times, and I’m not successful immoderate mode arrogant of it”) erstwhile she’s seen “a representation of maine wherever I consciousness similar I looked similar my tummy was excessively big, or… idiosyncratic said that I looked large … and that’ll conscionable trigger maine to conscionable starve a small spot — conscionable halt eating.”

Swift aboriginal elaborated connected what she’s gone done for her Variety screen story, saying that it was hard for her to talk up astir it for the documentary.

“I didn’t cognize if I was going to consciousness comfy with talking astir assemblage representation and talking astir the worldly I’ve gone done successful presumption of however unhealthy that’s been for maine — my narration with nutrient and each that implicit the years,” she said. “But the mode that Lana (Wilson, the film’s director) tells the story, it truly makes sense. I’m not arsenic articulate arsenic I should beryllium astir this taxable due to the fact that determination are truthful galore radical who could speech astir it successful a amended way. But each I cognize is my ain experience. And my narration with nutrient was precisely the aforesaid science that I applied to everything other successful my life: If I was fixed a pat connected the head, I registered that arsenic good. If I was fixed a punishment, I registered that arsenic bad.”