Taylor Swift edits music video after ‘fatphobia’ accusations
by Shaad D'Souza from World news | The Guardian on (#655T5)
Promo for single Anti-Hero originally showed the singer reading the verdict fat' from her bathroom scales
The video for Taylor Swift's song Anti-Hero, the lead single from her new album Midnights, has been altered days after its initial release to remove the word fat" from one of its scenes.
In the original clip, directed by Swift, the 32-year-old singer and songwriter steps on to a bathroom scale whose dial spins to the reading Fat". In the new version of the clip, viewable below, Swift steps on to the scale, receiving a look of disapproval from a doppelganger also played by Swift, but no reading is shown.
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