Taylor Swifts'‘Wildest Dreams’ Video Set in Africa- What's Strikingly Missing Has People Talking....
Taylor Swift is taking heat again from a number of publications that are attacking her newest music video for the song “Wildest Dreams,” which is set in Africa. The video is meant to portray a glamorous retro Hollywood movie shoot packed with wild animals, a love interest, and of course, heartbreak. The video for American singer Taylor Swift's new song "Wildest Dreams" has been viewed more than 10 million times in the two days since it debuted. The video was shot in Africa and California. In it, we see two beautiful white people falling in love while surrounded by vast expanses of beautiful African landscapes and beautiful animals — a lion, a giraffe, a zebra. Taylor Swift is dressed as a colonial-era woman on African soil. With just a few exceptions, the cast in the video — the actors playing her boyfriend and a movie director and his staff — all appear to be white. Their issue with the video? There are is “nary a black person in sight” in th...