Taylor Swift's latest music video was under critic but her director has defended the singer after she was accused of creating a African colonial fantasy in the video which do not include any coloured person.
The video has been viewed more than 15 million times, but some have criticised the scarcity of black people and said it portrays a stereotyped colonial-era view of Africa.
Joseph Kahn said the video for Wildest Dreams does include black people and was produced by a black woman and edited by a black man.
"This is not a video about colonialism but a love story on the set of a period film crew in Africa, 1950," Khan said in a statement.
"There are black Africans in the video in a number of shots, but I rarely cut to crew faces outside of the director as the vast majority of screen time is Taylor and (actor) Scott (Eastwood)."
Kahn, who also directed Swift's Blank Space and Bad Blood videos, is Asian.
Wildest Dreams shows Swift as an actress who falls in love with her co-star on the set. Black actors are seen in some of the clips from a distance.
Khan said: "The reality is not only were there people of colour in the video, but the key creatives who worked on this video are people of colour. ...We cast and edited this video.
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