Lena Dunham Calls Out Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Video

She labels it "one of the more disturbing ‘artistic’ efforts in recent memory..."

Lena Dunham has called out Kanye West's new 'Famous' video.

The clip was unveiled last week, and features a host of prosthetic dolls designed to look like famous celebrities.

Everyone from George W. Bush to Chris Brown, Taylor Swift to Rihanna, can be found in bed together, depicted by a series of wax dolls.

Kanye West called it "a comment on fame" before asking: "Can somebody sue me already."

Well, Lena Dunham is getting close. The award-winning actress, writer, and director has called out the video, labelling it "one of the more disturbing ‘artistic’ efforts in recent memory…"

Penning a note on Facebook, Lena Dunham wrote: "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."

She continued: "I’m sure that Bill Cosby doll being in the bed alongside Donald Trump is some kind of statement, that I’m probably being trolled on a super high level. I know that there’s a hipper or cooler reaction to have than the one I’m currently having. But guess what? I don’t have a hip cool reaction, because seeing a woman I love like Taylor Swift (fuck 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."

Check out the full note below.

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