In a statement to Rolling Stone, a member of Myriam Fares’ management team confirmed that they had “successfully trimmed” footage of Fares in blackface from the 2018 “Goumi.
, a member of Fares’ management team confirmed that they had “successfully trimmed” footage of Fares in blackface from the 2018 “Goumi.”“We are now very well aware of the offensiveness that escaped our judgment when we launched the music video as it was never intentional,” the statement read. “Especially since the blackface concept is non-existent in the Arab world and it was not considered a sensitive phenomenon in the Middle East.
“When Myriam crossed over to become an international artist, it was brought to our attention how this might be offensive,” the statement continued. “It was never our intention to raise any sensitive issue, as we really did not mean any offense, we just wanted to portray the beauty of women from different cultures.”
Fares’ management claimed they reached out to YouTube several times to try and re-edit the music video; but their “request was not accepted as [YouTube] considered it not to be a valid reason” for changing the clip, the management company claimed YouTube said in response.
Eventually an agreement was reached with YouTube to trim the problematic shots from the video, Fares’ team said.’s request for comment . While Fares’ team could have just taken the original video down, edited, and re-uploaded it, the replacement would have had a new URL, meaning it would’ve lost all the views the original video had accumulated.
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