A Massive Sculpture Of Tina Turner Was Just Unveiled—And It's Going Viral For All The Wrong Reasons

When it comes to entertainment legends, the late singer Tina Turner is right at the top of the pantheon.

And fittingly, the songstress' hometown of Brownsville, Tennessee, wanted to pay tribute to her legacy with giant statue of the icon.

But uhhh... well, let's just say this enormous 10-foot-tall tribute maybe should have stayed at the studio.

Because the likeness to Turner herself? Well, it's not exactly flattering, if it's there at all—and the internet is not having it.

Turner, who passed away in 2023 at 83, is often called the "Queen of Rock and Roll" and is one of the best-selling artists of all time.

And she did it all while surviving a horrific childhood and even more horrific marriage to fellow musician Ike Turner, whose abuse and exploitation were chronicled in the Oscar-nominated film What's Love Got To Do With It.

As legends go, there's perhaps none quite so inspiring, and deserving of honor, as Turner. And this statue is not that.

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From the bizarrely unrecognizable face to the even stranger body proportions, the statue feels much more like a school project than something meant to be in a town square.

The statue was part of Brownsville's annual Tina Turner Days festival. In a statement, Atlanta-based sculptor Fred Ajanogha said he paid special attention to Turner's hair, which he compared to "the mane of a lion."

But while his heart was clearly in the right place, the end results did not resonate in that way with people online—many of whom called out the sculpture's hair specifically as missing the mark.

Overall, people seem to feel that Turner deserved better—and the sculpture inspired no shortage of jokes, too.

We certainly hope Ms. Turner made it to the afterlife with her sense of humor more or less intact.