{"id":233166,"date":"2016-07-21T15:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233166"},"modified":"2016-07-21T15:12:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T15:12:49","slug":"taylor-swift-or-smith-mural-defaced-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233166","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift or ‘Smith’ mural defaced in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mural in Melbourne apparently proclaiming “the death” of Taylor Swift has been painted over.<\/p>\n

The popstar’s likeness was painted in a famous graffiti-covered laneway alongside the name “Taylor Smith”.<\/p>\n

It appeared earlier this week amid the Bad Blood singer’s escalating feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.<\/p>\n

The mock memorial now has a cartoon face scrawled over it and the words “In loving memory of Harambe”, the gorilla shot dead by zookeepers in the US.<\/p>\n

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Swift’s row with Kardashian – largely over whether she gave the latter’s husband permission to reference her in a song – is seen by many as having hurt her career by damaging her “nice girl” image.<\/p>\n

The artist of the original work, Lushsux, had originally posted a photo of the mural on Instagram with a caption: “The recent passing of @taylorswift is heart wrenching. Come and leave some flowers and light some candles at her memorial in Hosier Lane in honour of her memory.”<\/p>\n

The “Smith” was an intentional typo designed to ward off “the pending defamation lawsuit”.<\/p>\n

He later said “Taylor Smith’s” lawyers had contacted him threatening legal action if the mural was not removed.<\/p>\n

Then on Wednesday, it was defaced, though it was not clear who did it.<\/p>\n

Lushsux does not have plans to restore the artwork to its former glory.<\/p>\n

“Hosier Lane is notorious for this kind of thing,” he told the Herald Sun newspaper. “Got to just laugh about that I guess.”<\/p>\n

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Earlier this year, Lushsux attracted headlines for installing an enormous nude portrait of Kim Kardashian that was then partially painted over by council workers.<\/p>\n

“The workers who did it got a laugh out of it by painting a bra on the work or the shape of panties,” he told the BBC. “I think it just added to it in a fun way. Bless them.”<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift is currently on holiday in Australia with British actor Tom Hiddleston. The couple have been branded Hiddleswift by fans.<\/p>\n

Lushsux said that he was not trying to make a statement about Swift or her music but just having fun.<\/p>\n

“I thought that song Born This Way was by her,” he said. “Turns out I was wrong, so maybe that’s an indication on how deep my knowledge of her life and music is.”<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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