Lena Dunham finds Kanye's new "Famous" video "sickening"
Did you find Kanye West's "Famous" video disturbing? Lena Dunham sure did -- and she's not being shy about sharing her thoughts.
The video -- for a song that already courted plenty of controversy due to its mentions of Taylor Swift -- features eerily similar replicas of Swift, Donald Trump, Anna Wintour, Bill Cosby, Caitlyn Jenner and a host of other celebrities lying naked in bed, in an apparent homage to the painting "Sleep" by Vincent Desiderio.
No stranger to utilizing nudity in her work, Dunham isn't taking issue with all the fake flesh on display. Instead, it's something much deeper.
"The 'Famous' video is one of the more disturbing 'artistic' efforts in recent memory," Dunham wrote on Facebook. "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."
"I don't have a hip cool reaction, because seeing a woman I love like Taylor Swift (f**k that one hurt to look at, I couldn't look), a woman I admire like Rihanna or Anna [Wintour], 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."
Although Dunham thinks Kanye is "cool," she urged him to streamline his creative expression and move away from harmful gender and cultural archetypes.