The specialized magazine Billboard is making these days, on the occasion of the end of the first quarter of the new millennium, a list of the most influential and with the greatest number of number one among the pop artists of the last 25 years. The problem has come from the criticism: not from the position of each one, but by the selection of a specific image.
It was recently announced who occupied the positions of honor. That is, fifth, fourth and third place. And, in that order, they are Lady Gaga, Drake and Rihanna, although the choice of the latter for the bronze medal was much commented on, given that he abandoned music for a large part of those 25 years.
Even so, nothing compared to the controversy that arose when they announced Who is the second best artist of the 21st century: Taylor Swift. The doubt was whether they would crown the author of hits like shake it off either Anti-Hero in the Top 1 or if, instead, they would choose the one who, most likely, will soon be proclaimed as the best of this quarter of a century: Beyoncé.
But once the result was accepted, what really pissed off the fans and made the magazine come out to apologize was the video in which they celebrated Swift’s career, as they included an excerpt of the artist naked . It’s not really her, it’s a wax figure, But to make matters worse, it is a doll with its shape that was made by none other than one of his enemies.
It all happened in 2016, when in the midst of a public confrontation between Taylor and Kanye West, The rapper released the video clip for his song famous, with his famous phrase “I made that bitch famous” [“Yo hice famosa a esa zorra”]. If the topic already caused controversy, it was even more magnified because he used wax figures of various celebritiesincluding Taylor.
At that time, the Pennsylvania artist’s fans were furious and the video was buried on the Internet. But, perhaps unconsciously, Billboard has brought it to light again using said image, for which they have had to apologize.
“We sincerely apologize to Taylor Swift and all of our readers and viewers that in a video intended to celebrate Swift’s achievements, we included a clip that featured a false image of her. The extract has already been removed from the tribute and we are truly sorry for the pain we may have caused with this error,” they acknowledged.
Now We just have to wait for Beyoncé to be namedsomething that, based on the comments, fans do not doubt at all and, in fact, they are already celebrating her appointment as the best artist of the 21st century.
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