“Art is not a proxy for any ill or harm. Any suggestion otherwise about my art is false and mal intended.”
Ye seemingly addressed the backlash on his Instagram page on Sunday, appearing to defend the violent scenes and accusing anybody who interpreted it as a threat of having ill intentions towards him.He wrote: “Art is therapy just like this view. Art is protected as freedom of speech. Art inspires and simplifies the world. Art is not a proxy for any ill or harm.
This is a form of manipulation where somebody creates a false narrative and makes their victims question their own responses and reality.Addressing Ye’s insistence that the music video is nothing more than “art,” one critic wrote in aforum: “It probably would have been accepted like that if it was a stand alone moment.
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