Earl Sweatshirt: Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off' Video Is 'Inherently Offensive and Ultimately Harmful'

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Erika Ramirez - Billboard Magazine


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Hours after Taylor Swift premiered her single, "Shake It Off," and its accompanying music video, Earl Sweatshirt took to Twitter to express his thoughts on how it is "inherently offensive and ultimately harmful."

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Others, besides Earl, deem Taylor Swift's video as racist or an example of cultural appropriation, pointing out that the scenes of her twerking and breakdancing (or trying to) takes signifiers of black culture and uses them as a form of entertainment or mockery.

"Shake It Off" continues the conversation of cultural appropriation that sprung up when Katy Perry released the music video for "This is How We Do," in which she wears her hair in cornrows and uses slang, and when Miley Cyrus began twerking (in public).

"I guess I'll just stick to baseball and hot dogs, and that's it," Katy Perry told Rolling Stone of the criticism. "I know that's a quote that’s gonna come to fuck me in the ass, but can't you appreciate a culture?"

Earl, as like the rest of the Odd Future collective, isn't one to shy away from expressing his thoughts. Neither is A-Trak, who sarcastically tweeted about the video.

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where was this fucknut Earl when Miley did her thing for the past 3 years???

and I've watched the Taylor Swift video. To me, it appears that she's looking a few different things in life and saying screw it, do your own thing...

[Teh One Who Knocks]

HuffPost Live | By Ryan Buxton


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Taylor Swift got herself into some hot water with the music video for her new single "Shake It Off." The clip features Swift trying and failing to fit in with a number of subcultures, including that of ballerinas and break-dancers, but the scenes causing an uproar are the ones in which Swift crawls between the legs of a line of twerking dancers.

The clip has spurred a negative reaction from commentators including Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt, who expressed his displeasure by tweeting that the video is "perpetuating black stereotypes to the same demographic of white girls who hide their prejudice by proclaiming their love of the culture."

HuffPost Live's Marc Lamont Hill discussed the controversy on Thursday with a panel that included comedian Amanda Seales, gender studies professor Treva Lindsey and writer Everdeen Mason, who doesn't believe Swift's use of twerking is racist.

[Goofy]

Earl Sweatshirt? Really? that's a name? :lol: Does he know Willie Pullover or Bobby Jumper.......... or maybe Davie Cardigan? :-k

[RBP]

and I've watched the Taylor Swift video. To me, it appears that she's looking a few different things in life and saying screw it, do your own thing...

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I watched the video in silence and saw a artist saying "I can't really dance like any of the popular styles, so fuck it, just move how the music makes you move."

People constantly seeing racism in everything is ironically.... racist.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I love people who pass judgment without watching the vid :tup:

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I watched the video in silence and saw a artist saying "I can't really dance like any of the popular styles, so fuck it, just move how the music makes you move."

People constantly seeing racism in everything is ironically.... racist.


This was my take...and dammit I listened :x


bloody earworm was in my head all weekend :lol:

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[RBP]

I watched (and listened) and this is a self-deprecating, and very good, video.

I am getting more pissed by the day.

I never thought I'd say this, but... team Taylor.

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:lol: geez RBP a little late for the bandwagon