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Billboard is issuing an apology to Taylor Swift after utilizing footage of her bare waxwork from Kanye West’s music video.
“We’re deeply sorry to Taylor Swift and all of our readers and viewers that in a video celebrating Swift’s achievements, we included a clip that falsely depicted her,” the outlet shared through Instagram on Thursday, November 28. “We now have eliminated the clip from our video and sincerely remorse the hurt we brought on with this error.”
The clip from West’s 2016 track “Well-known” is considered “revenge porn” by some followers because it was a part of the lengthy feud between the 2 stars. Billboard included the nude determine in a montage of Swift’s musical highlights as they awarded her her title of second best pop star of the twenty first century.earlier this week.
When “Well-known” was first launched, Swift issued a prolonged assertion denying that she’d been conscious of the particular content material of the track after West’s then-wife Kim Kardashian leaked an edited recording of a telephone name between Swift and West through which she supposedly authorised its launch.
‘Trigger child we’ve all the time obtained dangerous blood on the subject of Taylor Swift and Kanye West. The duo’s decades-long feud first started in 2009, when West shockingly ambushed Swift as she was receiving the award for Greatest Feminine Video throughout the MTV Video Music Awards. As she started her acceptance speech for “You Belong With Me,” West […]
“Being falsely painted as a liar after I was by no means given the total story or performed any half within the track is character assassination,” she wrote through Twitter on the time. “I might very very similar to to be excluded from this narrative, one which I’ve by no means requested to be part of, since 2009.”
Whereas Swift didn’t instantly react to her picture getting used for the “Well-known” video, she “favored” a collection of social media posts denouncing it on the time of its launch. In the meantime, Swift’s shut good friend Lena Dunham branded the video “sickening” and “disturbing” in a Fb publish and accused the rapper of objectifying girls’s our bodies.
In Billboard’s announcement about Swift nabbing the No.2 spot of their countdown, they honored “all of the traits that made her completely different”: “Her sharp pen, her relatable girl-next-door awkwardness, her hopeless romanticism – and rejecting tradition’s earlier expectations for feminine artists to be overtly attractive, pliable and funky, she was in a position to forcefully, gravitationally bend tradition to her will and develop into one of many world’s greatest undisputed pop stars, regardless of her eight-year late begin in nation music,” they wrote.
“She is the one individual to ever win album of the 12 months on the Grammys 4 occasions. She has the second-most Billboard Scorching 100 entries of all time (solely Drake has extra) and ties with Jay-Z for second-most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 (bested solely by The Beatles),” they continued. “She is among the most spectacular touring artists of the previous quarter-century, a standing that has culminated along with her international Eras Tour turning into the highest-grossing trek of all time in 2023, simply midway by its run, because it repeatedly set stadium attendance information and boosted native economies in its confetti-and-friendship-bracelet-strewn wake. She’s a billionaire, the one feminine artist to develop into one predominantly by music alone. She is probably the most well-known girl on the earth.”
Billboard additionally anticipated receiving pushback from followers of Swift for not granting her the No. 1 spot, which will likely be formally introduced on Tuesday, December 3.
“For all these causes and so many extra, she is Billboard’s No. 2 Best Pop Star of the twenty first century, blowing previous numerous different completed hitmakers and icons,” they wrote. “The truth that controversy will probably tear by the web over her being only one small area beneath No. 1 is simply one other testomony to her energy, however regardless, her placement shouldn’t go away Swifties upset for too lengthy — particularly contemplating how a lot later within the millennium she obtained her begin, each within the style and music on the whole.”
