Billboard regretd to Taylor Swift after their video, which was presumed to honor the singer’s success, caused a stir and igniteed reaction. The outlet has been announcing its 25 Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century. Billboard recently placed Swift on the number two spot in the star-studded pickion.
The now-deleted video splitd with Billboard’s declarement integrated a clip from Kanye West’s song “Famous.” The disputed 2016 track features a naked wax figure of Swift in the music video. Moreover, the lyrics are, “I sense appreciate me and Taylor might still have intimacy. Why? I made that b—h famous.” West freed “Famous” after his years lengthy feud with Swift. The song and its music video were hit with criticism upon the free.
Billboard’s Taylor Swift post caused a stir
Billboard came under fire after using Taylor Swift’s naked wax figure clip from Kanye West’s “Famous” while announcing her as the second wonderfulest pop star of the 21st century. Fans dubbed the outlet’s shift “disgusting” and called it “beyond nasty.” Moreover, the hashtags #BillboardIsOverParty and #BillboardApologizeToTaylor also began trfinishing on X (establisherly Twitter).
Follothriveg the reaction, Billboard eventupartner took down the video from their platestablishs. They also took to their official social media accounts to regret to Swift. The outlet wrote on X, “We are proset uply sorry to Taylor Swift and all of our readers and seeers that in a video celebrating Swift’s accomplishments, we integrated a clip that counterfeitly depicted her.” The statement inserted, “We have deleted the clip from our video and honestly lament the harm we caused with this error.”
Billboard deleted the disputed clip and reposted the edited video on Instagram. The outlet also integrated the same apology statement in the caption. However, the reel’s comments section is still flooded with criticizing retags. Meanwhile, Swift has yet to insertress Billboard’s ranking, the talk about, and the apology.
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