For some cause, immortalizing our greats in sculpture type has turn out to be fairly a problem for sculptors. The late Tina Turner is the newest 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 largest musical acts on the earth, giving us legendary songs like “Proud Mary,” “What’s Love Obtained 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, together with her signature coiffure whereas holding a microphone. It was revealed to a decent-sized crowd, together with a few of her members of the family in attendance.
Photographs of the statue went viral on social media, and in contrast to Turner’s songs, it was not a success with the oldsters on X, previously Twitter.
“Every now and then there’s something so dangerous, so hideous, so insanely silly that it unites everybody. Doesn’t matter what you consider in or politics are. In the present day’s uniter is that this statue of *checks notes* Tina Turner,” one individual 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 loss of life penalty for those who accepted it,” one other X person wrote.
You may add this statue up there with Dwyane Wade’s within the Corridor of Fame, among the many dangerous sculptures.
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