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# Spot Kalup Linzy's New Musical Vagina
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/spot-kalup-linzys-new-musical-vagina/
- Published: 2011-06-29T16:33:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:37:34.000Z
- Description: Ignore the nice moody song and James Franco's disembodied smiling head, and just concentrate on the cheesiness of Kalup Linzy's new music video filled with vagina imagery … Judy Chicago would be proud, or weirded out. Take your pick.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, James Franco, Kalup Linzy, LOL, Music Videos, WTF, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/06/screen-shot-2011-06-29-at-12-01-46-pm.png)

A screenshot of Linzy’s vagina and James Franco obviously needs a cigarette. (click to enlarge)

Ignore the nice moody song and the bizarreness of James Franco’s [disembodied smiling head](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/06/screen-shot-2011-06-29-at-12-03-17-pm.png?ref=hyperallergic.com) floating in the video like some deity on uppers, and just concentrate on the cheesiness of Kalup Linzy’s new music video filled with [vagina imagery](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/06/screen-shot-2011-06-29-at-12-02-14-pm.png?ref=hyperallergic.com) … Judy Chicago would be proud, or weirded out (she could not reach her for comment before we published this very important issue).

Personally, I think one acronym says it best: WTF?!

Also, is it just me or does Linzy and Franco look postcoital in the scene above? Wait, another thing … is Linzy coming out of the vagina or going in? Art is soo confusing.

*More at* [*Flavorwire*](http://flavorwire.com/191327/watch-james-francos-new-music-video?ref=hyperallergic.com) *and* [*Pitchfork*](http://pitchfork.com/news/43025-watch-video-for-james-franco-and-kalup-linzys-collaboration-with-dj-rupture-rising/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*, which has the best description I’ve ever heard to describe Franco, “movie star weirdo.” Bravo, Pitchfork, bravo!*

And the commentarium of Twitter has already started chiming in:

http://twitter.com/#!/KnightLAT/status/86096161051656192http://twitter.com/#!/Powhida/statuses/86096803056988160http://twitter.com/craigjstrauss/statuses/86090125787922432http://twitter.com/#!/magdasawon/statuses/86105292462489601

> How High Was James Franco When He Made This Music Video With Kalup Linzy? [http://t.co/iqivYIc](http://t.co/iqivYIc?ref=hyperallergic.com)  
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> — Guest of a Guest (@guestofaguest) [June 29, 2011](https://twitter.com/guestofaguest/status/86116264686268416?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com)

I love the use of artsy in quotation marks:

> Today, James Franco and Kalup Linzy released an "artsy" music video: nym.ag/mGK0Ko via [@vulture](https://twitter.com/vulture?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com)  
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> — WJFDT (@WJFDT) [June 29, 2011](https://twitter.com/WJFDT/status/86089063987281921?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com)