Is Taylor Swift's new video "perpetuating stereotypes"?

For weeks, Taylor Swift has been dropping not-so-unsolvable clues about a big announcement.

Last night, via a live stream she announced she had made her fifth studio album, called 1989. The other surprise for fans included a first listen to her brand new single Shake It Off and also the fact that she had already made the video.

But while Taylor Swift fans were beyond themselves with excitement, one person took to Twitter to voice his disgust.

Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt has branded the video as "perpetuating black stereotypes".

In a series of tweets to his nearly 750 thousand followers, the 20-year-old admitted he hasn't watched the video.

He tweeted, he didn't need to watch it to know "it was perpetuating black stereotypes to the same demographic of white girls who hide their prejudice by proclaiming their love of the culture".

Taylor's video, as she explained during her live stream, is her getting down with a variety of different dance groups. She features as a ballerina, there is some break dancing, some contemporary dancing, some twerking and about "a hundred fans".

Taylor said it had been filmed two months ago and got her fans to applaud the fact that it had remained a secret for so long, considering the amount of people in it.

"In my mind I wanted to tie to this to a metaphor I've been thinking about a lot, because all I think about is metaphors and cats.

"My idea was that, life itself and who people actually are, can be greatly reflected in how they dance. And I really think that. And I don't mean how good you are, but your willingness to dance."

The 24-year-old singer talked through a party and how there are always a group of people who are "too cool" to dance.

"We basically decided that we would get this huge group of incredible professional dancers, of all different types of dance and throw me into the middle of them and see what happens."

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