Every time Taylor Swift breathes, it becomes news, so the commotion that arises when she releases new musical material is enormous. Y Midnights, his tenth studio album, has been no exception when it comes to transcendence. In fact, exemplifying it only with objective data, it has become the most played album in a single day on Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon. Also, the single anti-hero It is at the top of the YouTube music charts in the United States and the United Kingdom. However, success has also come with controversy on this occasion.
Everything is due to a brief scene of the video clip of anti-hero which has caused The American singer is accused of fatphobia on social networks. in said frame Swift can be seen stepping onto a scale that, far from giving her a figure, returns the word “fat”.
Thus, while some have interpreted it as a criticism, precisely, of society’s fatphobia that can lead a girl like Taylor Swift to think that she is fat, others have opined that, although it may be an intrusive thought with which many feel identifieddoes not exempt him from being a fatphobe.
Being the album themed about, as she explained on Twitter, the stories of 13 sleepless nights spread throughout his life, the video clip of anti-hero it also reflects her own “nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts” that haunt her private life.
In fact, the singer-songwriter opened up in 2020 on Netflix’s Miss Americana documentary about her eating disorders, even admitting that when she saw a picture of her, she felt like her belly was too bulging. “Someone once told me that she looked pregnant and that alone was enough to starve me. I just stopped eating,” she recounted.
At the moment, while the debate continues to grow on networks, the Apple Music and YouTube platforms They have already deleted a scene from the video which has generated the accusations. For now, neither Swift’s representatives nor the singer herself have made any statements in this regard.
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