Billboard apologises to Taylor Swift for together with her bare wax determine footage from Ye’s Well-known in tribute video

Why had been the Swifties upset?

Billboard shared a tribute video for Taylor Swift on its social media handles with the caption, “@taylorswift takes the No. 2 spot on Billboard’s record of the Best Pop Stars of the 21st Century. (silver medal emoji).” Nevertheless, part of the tribute video featured footage from Kanye West aka Ye’s 2016 music video of Well-known, through which Taylor’s bare wax statue is proven subsequent to his personal and others. His contentious vocals suggesting he and Taylor “may nonetheless have intercourse” as a result of he “made that b**ch well-known” additionally made it to the video.

An Instagram consumer commented on the previous video, “Apologize publicly to Taylor Swift.” One other wrote vehemently, “What occurred was actually disgusting!!!” “Your perspective as a ‘critical’ music portal was shameful,” learn a 3rd remark, whereas a fourth said, “Yall did her soiled. APOLOGIZE.”

Billboard points apology

Just a few hours later, Billboard eliminated the video from its social media handles and share the revised one, sans the footage from Well-known. It additionally said within the caption, “We’re deeply sorry to Taylor Swift and all of our readers and viewers that in a video celebrating Swift’s achievements, we included a clip that falsely depicted her. We have now eliminated the clip from our video and sincerely remorse the hurt we brought about with this error.”

Swifties had been already upset that the highest spot – the best pop star within the 21st century – was awarded to Beyonce by Billboard, as an alternative of their favorite star. The inclusion of footage from Ye’s well-known solely added insult to damage. Ye or Kanye West ranks on the no. 7 spot in Billboard’s record. His feud with Taylor dates again a number of years, and blew up when a 2020 telephone dialog between the 2 was leaked on-line.