Taylor Swift recently debuted her music video for "Wildest Dreams," co-starring Scott Eastwood, and it is receiving criticism from some media outlets for its content.
Many outlets have pointed out that the film only depicts wild animals and white people with, as Davies puts it, "bizarrely, nary a black person in sight."
Lauren Duca said the video "channels wild colonialism." She wrote, "Instead of the cultural appropriation that has become almost status quo in today's pop music, Swift has opted for the bolder option of actually just embodying the political exploitation of a region and its people."
"The video wants to have its old-school Hollywood romance but ends up eating some old-school Hollywood racism, too," said Lang, adding, "Just because you represent the past or pay respect to it doesn't mean you need to recreate its worst aspects."
This Lauren girl is literally saying that Taylor depicting 50's Hollywood is indirectly bringing back memories of the racism that existed in the 1950s Someone find me her Twitter
Someone find me her Twitter
