'RIP Taylor Swift' mural revamped into Harambe, then Kanye | Inquirer Entertainment

‘RIP Taylor Swift’ mural revamped into Harambe, then Kanye

/ 04:43 PM July 22, 2016

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A mural in Melbourne, Australia, honoring the “death” of American pop icon Taylor Swift has been retouched into a memorial for Harambe, the gorilla American cops at a Cincinnati zoo shot dead in May after a wandering toddler climbed into its enclave.

The graffiti’s artist, who uses the nickname “Lushsux” on Instagram, posted a photo of his masterpiece which was substituted with a grotesque painting of a Spongebob Squarepants caveman face with the words, “In loving memory of Harambe.”

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In his interview with New York Daily News, the artist planned to replace the Swift mural with a Spongebob caveman even before the incident occurred. “I’m sure I can cook up a round two for the spot if it gets destroyed. I may even go down and change it around tonight for another good laugh,” he said.

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Then, someone made his “Plan B” a dream come true.

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The artwork was defaced again on Wednesday, this time with a portrait of Kanye West, the singer in the center of the escalating social media controversy about his hit song “Famous.”

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On Friday afternoon, the “Blonde” Kanye graffiti was erased and the comic doodling was over.

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In the same interview, the graffiti artist claimed that he received an e-mail from one of Swift’s attorneys asking him to remove the artwork.

He was the same mastermind who painted a nude graffiti of Kim Kardashian-West, which was partially altered by council workers, BBC reported.

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Swift, 26, was immersed in a hype of social media controversies after Kanye’s wife, Kim Kardashian-West, posted a clip of Swift’s and Kanye’s phone conversation on her Snapchat account. The “Bad Blood” singer was fuming mad over the song’s lyric, “I made the bitch famous,” but netizens accused Swift of lying when she said Kanye did not ask for her consent to include her in the song.  Gianna Francesca Catolico

TAGS: Harambe, Kanye West, Melbourne, Taylor Swift

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