Taylor Swift's 'Wildest Dreams' video slammed for being 'racist'

Los Angeles: Singer Taylor Swift’s latest music video for her new single Wildest dreams is being battered by critics who claim it is racist and pandering to “rich white fantasies” from a colonial era. The video, which was revealed during the MTV Video Music Award event on Sunday, has a mainly white cast and revolves around two 1950s-era movie stars, played by Swift and actor Scott Eastwood, filming in Africa, reports dailymail.co.uk. [caption id=“attachment_2419616” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A screengrab from the Wildest Dreams video.[/caption] There are only two black actors, who play soldiers, and they appear in the background. The mock film crew are white. The footage was also slammed by a number of editorials. Joseph Kahn, director of Wildest dreams, insists the video is a “love story” and has no political agenda. But music fans have rushed to Twitter to describe it as “colonial garbage”. Wildest dreams is a song about a relationship that was doomed, and the music video concept was that they were having a love affair on location away from their normal lives. This is not a video about colonialism but a love story on the set of a period film crew in Africa, 1950,” Kahn said in a statement. Wildest dreams is a part of Swift’s fifth studio album “1989”. Watch the video here

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