Taylor Swift Boyfriend Calvin Harris Hurt Rita Ora Career? [NEWS]

It seems that all the Rita Ora fans that are tired of waiting for her new album have Calvin Harris to blame. According to the latest gossip news updates, Rita claims that her relationship with Taylor Swift's new boyfriend stunted her career by subverting her focus. Meanwhile, the 1989 beauty finds herself dealing with a few ugly accusations herself. Many critics have called Swift's new music video "Wildest Dreams" racist due to its presumed glorification of colonialism, but the video's Asian American director, Joseph Kahn, insists that those criticisms are completely misguided.

Many a musician has been known to use their tumultuous personal lives as inspiration for their albums, but for 24-year-old Rita Ora, it just doesn't work that way.

In a recent interview with Digital Spy, Ora explains that the reason it has taken her 3-years to complete a second album has to do with her inability to cope with dating world famous EDM DJ Calvin Harris (via Metro):

"This whole impression that my album hasn't been an easy process is really bollocks.

"It's not that it hasn't been, it's that I've put personal issues first because I'm a girl."

According to Rita, she had to figure out how to get over feeling sorry for herself, before she could even think on making music again:

"I was distracted and got carried away and it didn't really work out.

"I was affected by it so I just put everything on hold because I was a sulky 24-year-old and I was hurt...And now I'm back."

Some folks are wondering why Taylor Swift and her team didn't take a little bit more time thinking about the concept for her new music video themselves.

The backlash seems to center on what has been perceived as an insensitive treatment of colonial Africa and some sort of whitewashing of turn of the century politics, with NPR going so far as to insist that "Wildest Dreams" is proof that Old World colonialism still effects modern perceptions of Africa (via USA Today):

"Here are some facts for Swift and her team: Colonialism was neither romantic nor beautiful. It was exploitative and brutal. The legacy of colonialism still lives quite loudly to this day."

While Swift has very wisely remained silent on the issue, the video's prolific director told NPR, that they were completely mistaken about not only the time period but also the reason for the limited amount of non-white actors in the piece:

"This is not a video about colonialism but a love story on the set of a period film crew in Africa, 1950.

"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.

"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."

So it seems that Taylor Swift may not be guilty of perpetuating the romanticization of colonial Africa, even if her boyfriend did almost ruin Rita Ora's career.