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

Lena Dunham has become the latest celebrity to speak out about Kanye West’s controversial ‘Famous’ video, labelling it ‘one of the more disturbing “artistic” efforts in recent memory’.

The video,if you’ve not seen, features a number of stars, including Kim Kardashian, Kanye, Ray J, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Anna Wintour, George W Bush, Donald Trump and Lena’s BFF Taylor Swift, laying naked on a giant bed.

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Sources have already claimed that Taylor isn’t pleased with the video, with Chris Brown also taking to Instagram to air his unhappiness.

Sharing her thoughts in an open and honest Facebook post, Lena wrote: “Like many pop culture addicted Americans, I wait with bated breath for what Kanye West will do next. Aside from his Twitter mayhem, he has created some really “next level s**t” as the kids would say.

“I could also happily watch Kim Kardashian West chip the paint off a window ledge for hours and be fascinated. I admire that whole family, love the way they depict women as better in numbers and masters of their own destiny. I’d spend all summer at Kamp Kardashian. But it’s possible to hold two competing thoughts in your mind and the Famous video is one of the more disturbing “artistic” efforts in recent memory.”

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Talking about the controversial Brock Turner sentencing, the assaults filmed on Periscope and girls committing suicide after being exposed, and Bill Cosby’s continuing assault trial, Lena continued: “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 added: “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 (f**k 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.

Chris Brown has previously spoken out about the video. Copyright [Tidal]

“I hesitated a lot about saying anything cuz I figured the thinkpieces would come pouring in. But I didn’t see this angle being explored as much as I had hoped. It’s weird to feel like you’re watching alone. I bet I’m not.

“Here’s the thing, Kanye: you’re cool. Make a statement on fame and privacy and the Illuminati or whatever is on your mind! 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.”

TMZ also asked Ray J for his opinion on the video, with his manager saying: “If they didn’t show Ray J with his d**k in Kim Kardashian’s mouth, tell Kanye to go back and reshoot that s**t. He better watch his motherf***ing mouth.”