Actress Lena Dunham attends the 2016 Matrix Awards at The Waldorf Astoria on April 25, 2016 in New York City. (Photo : Getty Images/Jemal Countess)
Kanye West's NSFW, controversial music video of "The Life of Pablo" single "Famous" has sparked the ire of Lena Dunham, who has taken to social media to describe it as one of the most "disturbing" artistic creations in recent times.
The 30-year-old penned a lengthy Facebook post on Monday, June 27, about how she felt after watching West's provocative video, which features images of naked celebrities, including West, wife Kim Kardashian, Amber Rose, Anna Wintour, Taylor Swift, Chris Brown, Caitlyn Jenner, Ray J, Rihanna, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, sleeping alongside each other on a bed in a recreation of Vincent Desiderio's "Sleep" painting.
"Famous" has been the source of a lot of drama ever since its release earlier this year because it includes a line in which Kanye disses T-Swift. "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that b-- famous," he raps in the song.
Since then, Swift and West have been feuding with each other, and while West's camp maintains that the "Bad Blood" hitmaker was aware of the song's lyrics and gave West her blessing as she found the line amusing, Swift's rep has refuted this, saying that she would never OK such a "misogynistic" line, Variety reported.
Dunham said that after watching the controversial video, people would expect a "hip" and "cool" reaction out of her but she does not have that kind of reaction because of the manner in which the women, including her close friend Swift, have been portrayed in the video.
"I don't have a hip cool reaction, because seeing a woman I love like Taylor Swift (f- 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," Dunham wrote.
West dropped the music video on Friday, June 24, at the Los Angeles' Forum in front of a live audience, after which West told Vanity Fair that the video was a "comment on fame" and not in support of or against any of the famous people depicted in the video.
The "Girls" creator added that even though Kanye is cool and has the freedom to express whatever is on his mind, she cannot bear to watch a video that feels as though it has been inspired by the very aspects of society that prevent women from feeling safe in their own beds and their own bodies.
Check out a few glimpses of Kanye's controversial "Famous" music video below:
