“The Famous video is one of the more disturbing ‘artistic’ efforts in recent memory,” wrote Lena Dunham.
Over the weekend, rapper Kanye West released his music video for his single “Famous” – which depicted lifelike nude wax figures of various celebrities like Taylor Swift, Chris Brown, Caitlyn Jenner, Donald Trump and more.
West received some backlash for his provocative video (inspired by realist painter Vincent Desiderio’s 2008 mural “Sleep”), with the most recent being Girls actress Lena Dunham, who called his video “disturbing.”
In a long statement posted on Facebook, titled “Peeking From Between My Fingers,” Dunham begins by complimenting West and his wife Kim Kardashian. However, she takes a turn, illustrating how the newly released video makes her “feel sad and unsafe and worried for the teenage girls who watch this” – referencing the Stanford rape case.
“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,” she wrote. “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.”
Dunham concluded her statement with a photo of a cake with the words “Alles Liebe” written on it, which means “All the best” in German.
Read the entire Facebook post below:
