CULTURE

All the Famous Faces in Kanye West’s “Famous”

by W Magazine

Famous

“Can someone sue me already #I’llwait,” Kanye West tweeted (and then deleted) Saturday morning. The culprit: his new video for The Life of Pablo track “Famous,” which featured the likenesses of such varied personalities as Anna Wintour, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Bill Cosby, and George Bush sprawled naked in bed together, a likeness of artist Vincent Desiderio’s “Sleep.” As many of these celebrities have already confirmed, they didn’t really pose naked for West’s polarizing video. We, as viewers, are complicit in an eerie sort of voyeurism as the frame pans over the naked, sleeping bodies of Ray J, Chris Brown, Donald Trump, and more, silent except for a few muffled sleep sounds. Here, a breakdown of all the individuals featured in “Famous”; we’re still not sure which ones are real and which ones are CGI.

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Still from “Famous.”

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in “Famous.”

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Donald Trump in “Famous.”

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Taylor Swift in “Famous.”

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in “Famous.”

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Amber Rose in “Famous.”

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Anna Wintour in “Famous.”

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Chris Brown and Rihanna in “Famous.”

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Caitlyn Jenner in “Famous.”

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Kanye West in “Famous.”

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Bill Cosby in “Famous.”

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Bill Clinton in “Famous.”

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Still from “Famous.”