Lily Allen released her new single “Hard Out There” this week and in the video, she mocks Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke and other aspects of pop culture. But some critics have found the video racist and she has written a long post on Twitter, slamming these suggestions.

As previously noted, the track is a vicious parody of today’s popular music, with Allen and backup dancers mocking “Blurred Lines”- style dance moves and Allen getting cosmetic surgery based on what Late Night comics think. In one scene, she dances before balloons that spell out “Lily Allen Has A Baggy P**sy.”

After the video was released yesterday, sites like Jezebel and BlackInAsia called the video racist, noting that all the backup dancers are black. As MTV News notes, a blogger at Jezebel noted, “Because it's satire a lot of people will argue that it doesn't count because intent is magic, etc. but ironic racism is still racism.”

Well, it turns out that Allen doesn’t really like being called racist. “If anyone thinks for a second that I requested specific ethnicities for the video, they're wrong,” Allen wrote in a long Twitter post. She called the post “Privilege, Superiority and Misconceptions” and that was just one of five points she listed.

“If anyone thinks that after asking the girls to audition, I was going to send any of them away because of the colour of their skin, they're wrong,” the singer continued. She explained that, to her, the video is meant “to be a lighthearted satirical video that deals with objectification of women within modern pop culture. It has nothing to do with race, at all.”

She claimed that she tried to twerk herself, but she just couldn’t do it. “If I was a little braver, I would have been wearing a bikini too, but I do not and I have chronic cellulite, which nobody wants to see,” she wrote. “What I’m trying to say is that me being covered up has nothing to do with me wanting to disassociate myself from the girls, it has more to do with my own insecurities and I just wanted to feel as comfortable as possible on the shoot day.”

Allen said that she refuses to apologize, since she’s not guilty of anything. She said she doesn’t think that she’s better than anyone, “ except paedophiles, rapists murderers etc.”

Finally, Allen ended her post by providing the links to Twitter pages run by the dancers in the video.

You can check out the video below: (Warning: strong language)

image: YouTube