Video mpya ya Taylor Swift yashutumiwa ‘kutukuza ukoloni wa Afrika’
Video ya wimbo mpya wa Taylor Swift, ‘Wildest Dreams’ imeshutumiwa kwa kutukuza zama za ukoloni wa Afrika.
Video hiyo inamuonesha Swift akiwa na mpenzi wake wa kuigiza, Scott Eastwood kwenye mbuga ya wanyama na watu wote wanaoonekana wakiwa ni wazungu zaidi.
Hata hivyo muongozaji wa video hiyo, Joseph Kahn amesema video hiyo haihusiani na ukoloni lakini ni kisa cha mapenzi kwenye uchukuaji wa filamu barani Afrika miaka ya 1950.
Amedai kuwa filamu hiyo imetokana na filamu za zamani “The African Queen” na “Out of Africa.”
“There are black Africans in the video in a number of shots, but I rarely cut to crew faces outside of the director as the vast majority of screentime is Taylor and Scott,” alisema muongozaji huyo.
“The reality is not only were there people of color in the video, but the key creatives who worked on this video are people of color. I am Asian American, the producer Jil Hardin is an African American woman, and the editor Chancler Haynes is an African American man,” aliongeza.
“We collectively decided it would have been historicially inaccurate to load the crew with more black actors as the video would have been accused of rewriting history. This video is set in the past by a crew set in the present and we are all proud of our work.
“There is no political agenda in the video. Our only goal was to tell a tragic love story in classic Hollywood iconography.”
Hii si mara ya kwanza kwa Swift kushutumiwa kwa masuala ya ubaguzi wa rangi kwenye video zake.
