“Fat”.
It is these three letters, which can be translated as "big" or "big" in French, present in the clip "Anti Hero" by American singer Taylor Swift that have caused controversy since its release a week ago. .
In order to put an end to it, the clip was quietly replaced by a new one in which it does not appear.
In this song, Taylor Swift gives pride of place to her complexes and her neuroses.
We then see her, in the clip, climbing on a scale: rather than displaying numbers, it tells her that she is fat with the word “fat”.
It was enough for Internet users to rebel, denouncing grossophobia.
Taylor Swift's music video, where she looks down at the scale where she says “fat,” is a shitty way to describe her body image struggles.
Fat people don't need to have it reiterated yet again that it's everyone's worst nightmare to look like us.
— Shira Rose (@theshirarose) October 21, 2022
“Taylor Swift should have done better, because even if we can identify with (this sequence) and that it is presented as an
intrusive thought
, it is harmful and grossophobic”, had posted a user on Twitter.
"Big guys don't need to be told again that it's everyone's worst nightmare to look like us," another wrote.
The edited clip
Faced with the controversy, the clip was therefore modified from Wednesday.
If we still see Taylor Swift step on the scale and then look at her feet, we no longer see the close-up on the dial where it was written “fat”.
But this decision is not consensus either, noted BFM TV.
The singer had actually confided in 2020, during a documentary published on Netflix, about her thinness and had revealed to have suffered from an eating disorder.
“Invalidating the traumas of an artist who, for once, decides to be vulnerable and to share HER perception of things in HER clip… shameful”, thus lamented a surfer.
Taylor Swift's tenth album, "Midnights", of which "Anti Hero" is the flagship track, marks the American singer's gradual return to her pop inclinations.
Its release a week ago caused outages in several countries on Spotify when it was released.