For some motive, immortalizing our greats in sculpture type has turn into fairly a problem for sculptors. The late Tina Turner is the most recent instance of that.
A statue of the late icon was unveiled on Saturday in a park in Brownsville, Tenn., the place the pop music icon grew up earlier than turning into one of many greatest musical acts on the planet, giving us legendary songs like “Proud Mary,” “What’s Love Acquired To Do With It, and “The Greatest.”
The ten-foot-high bronze statue, sculpted by Fred Ajanoghag, depicts the singer, who handed away in 2023, along with her signature coiffure whereas holding a microphone. It was revealed to a decent-sized crowd, together with a few of her relations in attendance.
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Pictures of the statue went viral on social media, and in contrast to Turner’s songs, it was not successful with the oldsters on X, previously Twitter.
“From time to time there’s something so dangerous, so hideous, so insanely silly that it unites everybody. Doesn’t matter what you imagine in or politics are. Right this moment’s uniter is that this statue of *checks notes* Tina Turner,” one particular person wrote on X, previously Twitter.
One other person on X wrote, “How the fuck did George Floyd get a greater statue than Tina Turner??”
“And whoever made that Tina Turner statue can burn in hell… and the dying penalty for those who authorised it,” one other X person wrote.
You possibly can add this statue up there with Dwyane Wade’s within the Corridor of Fame, among the many dangerous sculptures.
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