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Was Taylor Swift Right To Edit A Scene Out Of Her AntiHero Music Video After Claims Of Fatphobia?

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

This is The Bird Show.

0:02.0

What's trending now?

0:04.0

Kristen Nos.

0:05.0

It's The Bird Show's entertainment bus.

0:07.0

Right, Taylor Swift removed a scene from her anti-hero music video because several health

0:12.7

professionals and activists called it fat phobic.

0:16.0

Now the scene in particular shows Taylor Swift stepping onto a scale and she looks down

0:21.2

at it and as it like, you know, it moves, it moves, it stops and it just stops on the

0:25.1

word fat instead of displaying like a numerical weight.

0:29.4

And so she's looking down at the scale and she's at that point singing this particular

0:33.9

line.

0:34.9

So she says, I stared directly at the sun but never in the mirror.

0:59.3

And for the camera pans to her looking at a second version of herself shaking her head

1:03.8

no now.

1:04.8

In the updated version, the anti clone is anti hero clone is just looking at her with

1:10.1

the face of disappointment.

1:11.1

I just checked this morning on YouTube and sure enough they have removed the edit where

1:16.1

it goes down to the scale and it shows the word fat.

1:19.3

So Cassian, I'm really interested to get your take on this because I believe you said

1:22.9

on the show before that we shouldn't look at the word fat as a bad thing.

1:26.8

We should embrace it.

1:27.8

Yeah, well, that is how I believe but that is not what's commonly accepted yet.

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