Do they nonetheless have “Bad Blood”?
Billboard is providing an apology to Taylor Swift after the leisure big used a picture of her wax determine from a Kanye West music video to focus on her achievements.
“We are 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,” Billboard wrote in a publish on X, previously Twitter, on Thursday.
“We have removed the clip from our video and sincerely regret the harm we caused with this error.”
Within the video montage celebrating Swift’s accolades after being named the second-greatest pop star of the twenty first century, Billboard mistakenly included a clip from West’s controversial 2016 “Famous” music video, which featured a unadorned wax figurine of the pop star laying within the rapper’s mattress.
Whereas Billboard eliminated and reposted the video celebrating Swift, the apologetic statements comes after receiving backlash on-line, as Swifties slammed the clip as “problematic,” “nasty” and “a slap in the face.”
In the meantime, in accordance with Time, hashtags corresponding to #BillboardIsOverParty and #BillboardApologizeToTaylor trended on X.
The Publish has reached out to Swift’s representatives for remark.
The music video and music — wherein he says, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/ Why? I made that bitch famous” — is a part of a yearslong feud between West and Swift courting again to 2009.
Swift took subject with the lyrics and the depiction of herself in West’s music video in 2016, and Kim Kardashian, the rapper’s spouse on the time, tried to defend her husband by claiming that he bought approval from the “Lavender Haze” crooner earlier than releasing it.
As alleged proof, Kardashian posted video footage from a telephone name between West and Swift, wherein the singer seemingly agreed to her inclusion in West’s music. Nonetheless, Swift claimed she was not conscious of the road referring to creating “that bitch famous,” and, years later in 2020, the complete telephone name between Swift and West leaked on-line.
Whereas chatting with Time as Individual of the Yr, Swift recalled the tumultuous time in her life, saying that it “took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before.”
“Make no mistake—my career was taken away from me,” she stated, including that she moved to a international nation to stay in a rental home and have become afraid to take telephone calls.
“You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar.”
