Lena Dunham Slams Kanye West’s Famous Video As ‘Disturbing’

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by Edwina Langley |
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It is generally acknowledged that public reaction to Kanye West's Famous video has been less than positive. Released via Tidal livestream, the image most of the world has had access to, thus far, has been of a line of naked wax figurines asleep in bed together.

Not just any naked figures, however, the line-up includes wax interpretations of accused rapist Bill Cosby and politician Donald Trump, as well as Taylor Swift, with her bosoms exposed, and Kim Kardashian, with a bare posterior, both flanking a slumbering, topless Kanye West.

Naturally, Taylor herself is said to be 'horrified' by the image. And now her good friend, writer and actress Lena Dunham, has leapt to her defence.

In an impassioned Facebook post, Lena wrote 'the Famous video is one of the more disturbing "artistic" efforts in recent memory'.

'Seeing a woman I love like Taylor Swift (f*ck that one hurt to look at, I couldn't look), a woman I admire like Rihanna or Anna, reduced to a pair of waxy breasts made by some special effects guy in the Valley, it makes me feel sad and unsafe and worried for the teenage girls who watch this and may not understand that grainy roving camera as the stuff of snuff films,' she said.

Addressing the image as a whole, she commented: 'Let's break it down: at the same time Brock Turner is getting off with a light tap for raping an unconscious woman and photographing her breasts for a group chat...

'As assaults are Periscoped across the web and girls commit suicide after being exposed in ways they never imagined...

'While Bill Cosby's crimes are still being uncovered and understood as traumas for the women he assaulted but also massive bruises to our national consciousness...

'Now I have to see the prone, unconscious, waxy bodies of famous women, twisted like they've been drugged and chucked aside at a rager? It gives me such a sickening sense of dis-ease.'

Whilst she acknowledged in the post that 'art's job is to make us think in ways that aren't always tidy or comfortable,' she went on to conclude, 'this feels different'.

We couldn't agree more, because it sits very uneasily with us too. We all know Kanye enjoys a spot of controversialism every now and again, but might this be a step too far?

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