During Tuesday’s episode of the daytime talk show, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Joy Behar and Alyssa Farah Griffin discussed the polarizing new music video, which at one point depicts Swift, 32, stepping on a scale that reads “fat.” While some claim that the scene reinforces the negative connotation with the word “fat,” and works to shame women of larger sizes, many supporters of the Grammy-winner have since come forward to say that wasn’t Swift’s point—including the hosts of The View, who believe the songstress was only trying to express her own experience with body image. “They missed the point,” Hostin said of critics of the video. “For someone who’s an artist, she gets to have agency over her artistry. She was describing a personal experience, and quite frankly, it’s a personal experience a lot of women experience.” “Every single person knew what she meant,” Haines chimed in. “It was beyond ‘fat,’ it was, ‘you’re not good enough, you’ve been bad. If you were better or stronger, this number would be different.’ It says so many things in one word.” Goldberg then urged people to “just let her have her feelings,” adding, “If you don’t like the song, don’t listen to it. Why are you wasting your time on this? Leave that girl—you know, you all want to say something about Taylor Swift. Leave her ass alone, OK?” Amid the controversy, some of Swift’s fans have been reminding critics that the songwriter has struggled with an eating disorder, which would explain the scale scene in the music video. In her 2020 Netflix documentary, Miss Americana, Swift revealed that seeing photos of her body and reading negative comments about her weight caused her to starve herself at times in the past. The video—which already has over 31 million views on YouTube—appears to follow Swift’s inner monologue of self-loathing, which is illustrated in the shadow version of herself lurking over her shoulder and reinforcing her intrusive thoughts throughout the video. Other users online have embraced the video, with some calling it a “masterpiece.” “Anti-Hero” is one of the tracks from Swift’s newest studio album, Midnights, which is now available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music. More News:
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