Saturday, December 16, 2017

Violence against women in music

Wondering if Kathy Griffin of Trump severed head fame in her "comedy" routine got the idea from Kanye West who in one of his videos carried the severed head of a woman in his right hand, and got no push back. Oh sure--it's just zombies, who are attractive voluptuous white women.

"West's video shows him, Rick Ross, Jay-Z, and Nicki Minaj living in a sort of torture-palace-mansion thing, littered with the dead, dying, and dismembered bodies of models. Occasionally, models — who may be zombies, or vampires, or vampire-zombies? — try and break into the mansion; they are, naturally, killed and dismembered. [Taylor] Warren appears in the clip as a vampire who kills a man with a stiletto and drags his body across the bottom of a drained swimming pool. Later, Kanye raps an entire verse while dangling Warren's severed head by its hair from his right hand."

Those are the clips that appear on the internet--West carrying a severed head.

Were the women concerned? Nah. Taylor Warren: "I shot with Kanye when he held my decapitated head, and that was really amazing! I was super stoked to be a part of it. We met before we shot the scene and he said, 'Hey, how's it going,' and then I had to kneel down and he was holding me by the hair — I couldn't move or talk because it would ruin the shot! Between takes, he still had my hair and would talk to the director or on his phone while I was chilling three feet below him, but I couldn't help but think, 'This is so surreal and amazing.' "

In 20 years she'll be claiming abuse.

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