As you might be aware, Kanye West has just released a new very NSFW video for his latest single 'Famous'.

And as with most things that Yeezy does, the music promo - which shows Kanye naked in bed with lookalikes of his wife Kim Kardashian, as well as Taylor Swift, Bill Cosby, Donald Trump,Caitlyn Jenner and George W. Bush - has kicked off a total shitstorm online. https://twitter.com/Novelistprice/status/746590119772119040 BuzzFeed is reporting that West could face legal action over the controversial video. Libel lawyer Bert Fields told the site: “I think there is a pretty good libel case — it gives the impression they have consented, and that would reflect very badly on the minds of most people…that you are the kind of person who consents to having your nude body shown to sell a record,” Meanwhile, a source close to Taylor Swift is quoted in The Telegraph as saying: "She feels like she's been assaulted. She knew he was unpredictable but didn’t think he would go so far. She’s strategizing with her team as to what her next move should be. She’s weighing all her options and will then respond accordingly. Just writing a song dissing him isn’t enough payback for something like this." Helpfully, former US president Bush has clarified his role in the video: https://twitter.com/stereogum/status/747538339008380928 Now, Girls actress and writer Lena Dunham has weighed in on the video in a Facebook post. It reads:

"Peeking From Between My Fingers: some disjointed thoughts on the 'Famous' video "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 shit" 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. "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. "I was raised in the art world by a dad who painted aggro scenes of sexuality and war and a mom who, ironically enough, has photographed some butt naked life-sized dolls of her own. I live for the nude rabble rousing of Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke, for Kathy Acker's arty porn, for Paul McCarthy's gnomes with butt plugs and Vito Acconci masturbating under the gallery floor and Carrie Mae Weems shedding a blinding light on the pleasures and terrors of black womanhood. If it's been banned, I'll probably love it. Because I know that art's job is to make us think in ways that aren't always tidy or comfortable. But this feels different. "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. 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. "Y'all, I'm so sick of showing up to the party angry. But at least I brought cake."

Sure enough, Dunham seems to have invited a whole heap of abuse on herself for making the comments. https://twitter.com/JoshDenny/status/747570962028068865 https://twitter.com/tanya_renea/status/747571031670296576 https://twitter.com/333333333433333/status/747600025472098305 But that criticism is mild compared to other responses to Dunham's words. Lots of people are referencing an older, extremely controversial episode from Dunham's memoir, Not That Kind Of Girl, which her critics say involved the star sexually abusing her sister. https://twitter.com/diannaeanderson/status/528638349804703745 https://twitter.com/YeshaCallahan/status/747560894847029248 https://twitter.com/whiskymouth/status/747577461781585920