Billboard magazine claims they are “deeply sorry” for their recent attempt to celebrate Taylor Swift. Topping the music magazine Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century—the 34-year-old Swift made the music mag’s number 2 spot—Billboard put together a video of some of Swift’s achievements. Unfortunately, they used a video clip from Kanye West’s music video “Famous.” In the scene shown (see pic above), a wax reproduction of a nude Taylor Swift appears while we hear “I made that ***** famous.”
This infamous exclamation fed a big controversy some eight years ago, swirling around Swift, West, and his then-wife, Kim Kardashian. Swift disputed that she gave approval to West to use that line regarding her when Kardashian released a video of what she claimed was a snippet of a Swift-Kanye conversation. After this initial dust-up, a different recording was posted across social media, supposedly the full discussion, which supported Swift’s version of what happened.
After all this time, Billboard used the “Famous” video clip and was instantly castigated. As they said, in part:
“We are deeply sorry to Taylor Swift and all of our readers and viewers that in a video celebrating Swift’s achievements, we included a clip that falsely depicted her,” the statement reads.
Given her specific seemingly non-controversial, surely flirty, yet never-so-overly-sexual image—and unmatched mega-stardom—any hint of something salacious about, from, or surrounding Taylor Swift seems to always make the news…swiftly. This Billboard story did so this week across the web…and it does so here. But as posters and sites continue to report leaked Taylor Swift pics and videos showing the star in compromising positions, with very little clothing on (so far, all faked) and all of her canoodling with famous football star boyfriends, good news and bad, about the Swifties’ goddess, will continue.
By the way, Beyoncé topped Billboard’s Greatest Pop Star of the Century chart.
