Everyone’s got something to say about the new Taylor Swift video, and some of those people are pretty unhappy over it.
Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt took to Twitter after hearing about the Mark Romanek-directed video for Shake It Off, which Taylor unveiled on Monday and although he hadn’t even seen it, he slammed the singer for daring to include urban culture in her video.
The hip-hop artist took to Twitter to bash Taylor saying: ‘Haven’t watched the Taylor Swift video and I don’t need to watch it to tell you that it’s inherently offensive and ultimately harmful.’
Apparently, Earl thinks that the video is ‘perpetuating black stereotypes to white girls’ and that this particular demographic who proclaim their love of urban culture are simply masking prejudice:
‘Perpetuating black stereotypes to the same demographic of white girls who hide their prejudice by proclaiming their love of the culture,’ he Tweeted.
He went on: ‘For instance, those of you who are afraid of black people but love that in 2014 it’s ok for you to be trill or twerk or say n---a.’
Part of the Shake It Off video sees Taylor crawl beneath a sea of twerking butts, and makes herself the er, butt of the joke by showing her distinct lack of twerking abilities. It’s not the best part of the video, but we sincerely doubt there is even a sniff of racism behind it. The professional dancers are of varying ethnicities and the ‘real’ people Taylor invited to dance at the end of the video also come from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Perhaps Earl could have actually looked at the video before going off on one about it?
Taylor also makes fun of herself as a ballerina, bunny-hopping backwards across the screen, and performs a robotic dance in some futuristic-looking gold gear – but so far there have not been any complaints from ballet dancers or robots.
This article originally appeared on The Debrief.