Taylor Swift, the billionaire songwriter, is making headlines after Billboard named her because the no. 2 biggest pop star of the twenty first century on Thursday. Nevertheless, these celebrations turned bitter for Swifties after Billboard shared a tribute video for the music sensation on its social media deal with, reported Tribune.
Why had been Swifties livid?
The caption of the viral video said, “@taylorswift takes the No. 2 spot on Billboard’s listing of the Biggest Pop Stars of the twenty first Century. (silver medal emoji).” Part of the tribute video featured footage from Kanye West aka Ye’s 2016 music video — Well-known. Swifties had been enraged as Taylor’s bare wax statue was proven subsequent to Kanye West’s and others within the music video.
Within the derogatory video, Kanye West’s contentious vocals counsel that he and Taylor “would possibly nonetheless have intercourse” as a result of he “made that b**ch well-known”.
Reacting to the put up, one consumer commented, “Apologize publicly to Taylor Swift.” One other consumer wrote, “What occurred was really disgusting!!!” A 3rd consumer said, “Your angle as a ‘critical’ music portal was shameful.” “Yall did her soiled. APOLOGIZE,” a fourth consumer replied.
Billboard apologises to Swifties
Later, Billboard issued an apology and eliminated the controversial clip from its social media handles. The outline with the revised footage from Well-known stated, “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’ve got eliminated the clip from our video and sincerely remorse the hurt we prompted with this error.”
The journal ranked Beyonce as the best pop star of the twenty first century. In the meantime, Rihanna secured third place, Drake stood in fourth spot, Woman Gaga at fifth and Britney Spears at sixth. Notably, Taylor Swift, who had a long-standing feud with Ye (previously Kanye West), is ranked 5 spots above him. Different distinguished singers on the listing embrace Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Adele, and Usher.
