What's Art Got To Do With It? Tina Turner Statue In The Singer's TN Birthplace Is Simply The Worst

Posted • September 30, 2025: A statue of the legendary Tina Turner was just unveiled in the late singer’s birthplace of Brownsville, Tennessee. Many are saying it’s simply the worst way to honor the ‘Simply the Best’ rocker. They say it’s an abomination that doesn’t look like Turner at all. —— New Tina Turner statue unveiled over the weekend here in Tennessee. Words fail. Great art does that, leaves you speechless. So does an abomination like this. —— I'm not sure that the person who created this newly unveiled statue of Tina Turner was ……"Simply the Best" person for the job! Tina Turner was an icon deserving of better than that. It’s enough to make ‘Proud Mary’ sink in shame. —— She still getting gigs? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G2DHjHObgAAoQBT?format=png&name=small —— That’s from the infamous ending of Lionel Richie’s ‘Hello’ music video. That bust looks nothing like him. —— This is what the statue should have been based on: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G2CVJTNXIAAHN3B?format=jpg&name=360x360 —— A realistic statue of Turner as Aunty Entity from ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’ would rock. (…)

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