Lily Allen Apologizes for “Hard Out Here” Video Cultural Appropriation

Back in 2013, Lily Allen was accused of the “denigration of black female bodies” for her questionable casting of black and Asian dancers in the video for “Hard Out Here.” Despite saying the twerk-filled video had “nothing to do with race, at all” in a follow-up blog post, Allen has now admitted she was guilty of cultural appropriation, the Guardian reports. “I was guilty of appropriating when I did a video called ‘Hard Out Here,’” she says in the video, in which she critiques X Factor’s rap parody act Honey G. “The intention behind it [was], I definitely wanted to make a feminist statement. But I was guilty of assuming that there was a one-size-fits-all where feminism is concerned.” Watch the video below.

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