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Director of Taylor Swift’s Wildest Dreams responds to critics: ‘This is a love story’

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The director of Taylor Swift’s Wildest Dreams video has hit back at critics of its portrayal of Africa.

Taylor Swift premiered the music video for her new song at the MTV Music Video Awards on Sunday.

Tay plays an actress who falls in love with her co-star while filming on the Serengeti.

It drew criticism online, with Jezebel writing that despite the location there’s ‘nary a black person in sight.’

Kenyan and Ugandan Global Health Corps alumni Viviane Rutabingwa, and James Kassaga Arinaitwe, a Ugandan public service worker, wrote for NPR: ‘We are shocked to think that in 2015, Taylor Swift, her record label and her video production group would think it was OK to film a video that presents a glamorous version… Read the full story


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