The phenomenal songstress Taylor Swift continues to be in the headlines for her latest music video for her newly released song 'Wildest Dreams', gaining a lot of opinions for being accused of glamorizing African colonialism. And just recently, the director of the video, Joseph Kahn finally spoke and defended his work.

A lot of articles have been published about Swift's latest music video including one that read: "Taylor Swift is dressed as a colonial-era woman on African soil. With just a few exceptions, the cast in the video-the actors playing her boyfriend and a movie director and his staff-all appear to be white," according to an NPR article titled "Taylor Swift Is Dreaming Of a Very White Africa". "We are shocked to think that in 2015, Taylor Swift, her record label and her video production group would think it was OK to film a video that presents a glamorous version of the white colonial fantasy of Africa," it continued.

Meanwhile, Khan recently responded releasing a statement "'Wildest Dreams' is a song about a relationship that was doomed, and the music video concept was that they were having a love affair on location away from their normal lives," Kahn said adding, "This is not a video about colonialism but a love story on the set of a period film crew in Africa, 1950."

The director furthermore explains that there are indeed black Africans in the video despite what many may suggest. "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 screentime is Taylor and Scott [Eastwood]," Kahn continued.

"The reality is not only were there people of color in the video, but the key creatives who worked on this video are people of color. I am Asian American, the producer Jil Hardin is an African American woman, and the editor Chancler Haynes is an African American man," he said adding, "We cast and edited this video. We collectively decided it would have been historically inaccurate to load the crew with more black actors as the video would have been accused of rewriting history. This video is set in the past by a crew set in the present and we are all proud of our work."

The songstress herself, Swift has yet to comment on this matter.