Danger! White Girl Twerking
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Taylor Swift released a splashy new music video last week–“Shake It Off,” a single from her forthcoming album, “1989.” The video features Ms. Swift trying her hand at a variety of dance styles–pointe, interpretive, break–to the tune of a brassy pop anthem about “players,” “haters” and “fakers,” a measurable departure from the soft-sung country love ballads that brought her worldwide fame.
Despite the anti-hater vibe of “Shake It Off,” the video has inspired considerable backlash. The controversy centers on a clip in which Ms. Swift appears to (attempt to) twerk alongside backup dancers scantily clad in stereotypical street wear–high-tops, gold doorknocker earrings, crop-top hoodies and shredded-denim shorts.
The rapper Earl Sweatshirt, of the Los Angeles-based hip-hop collective Odd Future, took to Twitter to air his particular grievances ...
Sad clueless choice for Taylor Swift, who has been known as a good writer and performer of soft catchy country pop tunes of young romantic innocence that had the ring of old-fashioned sincerity. Maybe this is what comes of spending every day and night writing, performing and dating while immersed in a popular celebrity parallel universe, where Black entertainment 'culture' is always assumed to be the most fashionably dangerous. Looking forward to Swift's next video featuring rioting, looting and astronomical Black-on-White violent crime, maybe concluding with a tribute to the African invention of the Boeing 747 back when they ruled Egypt. Final warning: whatever you decide to do next, Taylor, whether it be burning a cross while tap dancing in KKK garb or a half-hour tearful gospel tribute to MLK, it will make Blacks really really mad!
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