Sydney Sweeney’s starring position within the Rolling Stones‘ music video for “Offended,” the lead single off their most up-to-date album “Hackney Diamonds,” led to some claims that she was sexualized in the course of the practically four-minute clip. The video options Sweeney sporting black studded chaps and dancing within the again seat of a convertible because it speeds down Sundown Boulevard in Hollywood. The road is lined with animated billboards exhibiting the historical past of the Rolling Stones.
One of the vital distinguished critics of the music video was Blur frontman and Gorillaz co-creator Damon Albarn, who instructed French press: “I listened to their new music and watched this horrible music video exhibiting them at completely different levels of their lives on billboards. And this younger girl objectified. What the hell is that this? There’s one thing utterly disconnected.”
Sweeney simply doesn’t agree. In a brand new interview with Glamour UK, the Emmy nominee stated: “I felt scorching. I picked my very own outfit out of racks and racks of garments. I felt so good in it.”
“One of many questions I get is, ‘Are you a feminist?’ I discover empowerment via embracing the physique that I’ve,” she continued when requested about how some individuals thought she was objectified within the video. “That’s attractive and powerful, and I don’t suppose there’s something flawed with it. I’m in a Rolling Stones video. How cool and iconic is that? I felt so good. All of the strikes, the whole lot I used to be doing was all freestyle. I imply, who else will get to roll round on the highest of a convertible driving down Sundown Boulevard with police escorts? It’s the cool issues on this profession that I had no thought I’d get to do.”
Sweeney joined the Rolling Stones in London once they introduced their new album in September, telling press on the time that showing within the band’s music video was “the most important factor ever.” Selection’s Jem Aswad went on to reward “Hackney Diamonds” because the Stones’ liveliest album in 40 years.
Sweeney subsequent stars reverse Glen Powell within the romantic-comedy “Anybody However You,” in theaters Dec. 22 from Sony Photos.
