Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello has savagely hit back at accusations that her music video featured a dancer wearing blackface.
The Havana singer took to Twitter and clarified that the dancer in her performance of ‘Don’t Go Yet’, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, was supposed to look like a white man with a terrible spray tan. She wrote, “Hey! so this dude was just supposed to be a white man with a terrible spray tan. we purposefully tried to pull together a multicultural group of performers, the expectation was not that everyone in the performance needed to be Latin.”
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“There are white people, African American people, latin people, etc. and so the point wasn’t to try to make everyone look Latin either. There are a lot of people in the performance who are not,” she said.
the familia invaded @fallontonight last night ???? #DontGoYet @jimmyfallon
on my team we try to create a culture of kindness, joy, & love & you could feel that this week. none of this could be possible without the dream team that makes it happen & the fans that continue to support pic.twitter.com/P001TjnLyw— camila (@Camila_Cabello) July 24, 2021
“The point was to try to make each person look like an over the top 80’s character just like in the video, including a white dude with a terrible orange spray tan,” she added. She also explained that ‘Dont Go Yet’ is the first song from the singer’s next album, Familia. This album was inspired by two things: family & food. Your family by blood, but also the chosen family. The video is the singer’s upcoming third studio album Familia.
