Are they still “bad”?
Billboard is offering an apology to Taylor Swift after the entertainment giant used the image of her wax figure from a Kanye West music video to highlight her achievements.
“We are deeply sorry to Taylor Swift and all of our readers and viewers that in a video celebrating Swift’s accomplishments, we included a clip that inaccurately portrayed her,” Billboard wrote in a post. xFormerly Twitter, on Thursday.
“We have removed the clip from our video and we sincerely apologize for the loss we have caused this error.”
Video montage celebrating Swift after her name comes up The second greatest pop star of the 21st centuryBillboard mistakenly included a clip from West’s controversial 2016 “Famous” music video, which featured a naked wax statue of the pop star lying on the rapper’s bed.
While Billboard removed and reposted the video celebrating Swift, the apologetic statement comes after receiving backlash online swifties slammed The clip was described as “problematic,” “bad” and “a slap in the face.”
Meanwhile, according to TimeHashtags like #BillboardIsOverParty and #BillboardApologizeToTaylor trended on X.
The Post has contacted Swift’s representatives for comment.
The music video and lyrics – in which he says, “I guess me and Taylor could still have sex/Why? I made that b–h famous” – are part of years old feud between west and swift dating since 2009,
Swift took issue with the song’s lyrics and portrayal of herself in West’s music video in 2016, and at the time, the rapper’s wife, Kim Kardashian, attempted to defend her husband by claiming that she had to write it before releasing it. “Lavender Haze” singer. ,
As proof, Kardashian posted video footage from a phone call between West and Swift, in which The singer seems to agree To include him in the song of the West. However, Swift claimed that she was not aware of the line that referred to making “that b—h famous”, and, years later 2020The entire phone call between Swift and West was leaked online.
while talking to Time As Person of the Year, Swift reflected on the tumultuous time in her life, saying that it “took me psychologically to a place I had never been before.”
“Make no mistake – my career was taken away from me,” he said. She said she moved abroad to live in a rented house and became afraid of picking up the phone.
“You have a completely constructed frame job in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian Edited and then told to tell everyone I was a liar.”
