"The video wants to have its old-school Hollywood romance but ends up eating some old-school Hollywood racism, too," said Lang, adding, "Just because you represent the past or pay respect to it doesn't mean you need to recreate its worst aspects."
Mic's Zak Cheney-Rice talked about the history of white colonialism in Africa. "The video's narrative of white people finding romance in the hinterlands of a land wracked by colonial violence is not only obliviously ahistorical, but also exhibits tropes that people across the African diaspora have been trying to dispel for years," said Cheney-Rice.
Taylor Swift's camp was contacted by THR for comment and did not reply at press time.
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