Billboard Apologizes to Taylor Swift for Video With Naked Wax Figure

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After Billboard shared a video honoring Taylor Swift that included a clip of her NSFW wax fig from Kanye West’s “Famous” euphony video, the work apologized for the "error."

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This is Billboard swallowing their pride, lasting successful beforehand of Taylor Swift, saying they’re atrocious for that video. 

After referencing Kanye West’s “Famous” euphony video successful a societal media station honoring Swift for their “Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century” list, the work issued an apology. 

“We are profoundly atrocious to Taylor Swift and each of our readers and viewers that successful a video celebrating Swift’s achievements, we included a clip that falsely depicted her,” the Nov. 28 statement posted connected X, formerly Twitter, read. “We person removed the clip from our video and sincerely regret the harm we caused with this error.”

E! News has reached retired to reps for Swift, arsenic good arsenic Billboard, regarding the station but has not yet heard back. 

The archetypal post, shared by Billboard Nov. 27, included a clip of Swift’s bare wax fig from West’s 2016 “Famous” euphony video. Shortly aft the station was shared, fans of Swift expressed their disappointment connected societal media. 

“A antheral should ne'er specify a woman’s success,” 1 instrumentality wrote to X successful response to the archetypal post. “Billboard owes Taylor Swift an apology.”

Another shared a screenshot of the aforementioned clip, adding, “This is disgusting.”

West’s 2016 opus and euphony video was 1 of the catalysts for his ongoing feud with Swift. In July 2016, Kim Kardashian shared an edited video of a telephone telephone betwixt West and Swift, making it look arsenic though the “Karma” vocalist had approved the lyrics to the song, which included, “I consciousness similar maine and Taylor mightiness inactive person enactment / Why? I made that b---h famous.”

At the time, Swift emphasized that she was unaware of definite lyrics connected the track, penning a effect to the play successful a since-deleted Instagram post. 

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“Where is the video of Kanye telling maine helium was going to telephone maine ‘that b---h’ successful his song?” Swift wrote successful the post. “It doesn’t beryllium due to the fact that it ne'er happened. You don’t get to power someone’s affectional effect to being called ‘that b–-h’ successful beforehand of the full world.”

In 2020, a afloat mentation of the telephone telephone revealed Swift had been telling the truth. She aboriginal reflected connected the saga past year. 

“You person a afloat manufactured framework job, successful an illegally recorded telephone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and past enactment retired to accidental to everyone that I was a liar,” Swift told TIME. “That took maine down psychologically to a spot I’ve ne'er been before.” 

Keep speechmaking to spot Swift done the years. 

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