While it doesn’t seem like Kanye’s getting exactly the desired reaction from the subjects of his “Famous” music video, other celebs who weren’t featured are more than happy to chime in as well. Case in point: Girls showrunner Lena Dunham, who called the video “one of the more disturbing artistic efforts in recent memory.”
In a post to her Facebook page, Dunham tore down the video for its depiction of famous women at a time when stories of women being raped are commonplace.
“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.”
Dunham said she’s a fan of both Kanye and Kim Kardashian West and she underlined her parents’ art world cachet to say that this wasn’t a prudish reaction to provocative nudity. However, Dunham couldn’t stomach what she felt was the voyeuristic creepiness of “Famous” because she thinks it cuts a little too close to reality.
“Here’s the thing, Kanye: you’re cool. Make a statement on fame and privacy and the Illuminati or whatever is on your mind!” she wrote. “But I can’t watch it, don’t want to watch it, if it feels informed and inspired by the aspects of our culture that make women feel unsafe even in their own beds, in their own bodies.”
(Via Vulture)
