Tina Turner was a music icon, dubbed The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll in her heyday, and was definitely worthy of having a statue in her honor in her hometown…but did it have to look like that?

The city of Brownsville, Tennessee unveiled a statue of the legendary performer, and reception was at best mixed.

The statue was commissioned by the city, which is near where Turner was born and raised, and is situated in a park in Brownsville, about an hour east of Memphis. The city of about 9,000 people is near Nutbush, TN, where Turner went to school as a child. As a teen, she attended high school just steps from where the statue is located.

Turner, whose real name was Anna Mae Bullock, sang hits like “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” “Simply the Best,” “Better Be Good to Me,” and the rock classic “Proud Mary,” which she recorded with her abusive then-husband Ike Turner. She also was an actress, appearing in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in 1986 and Tommy in 1975. She died in May of 2023 at the age of 83.

The statue is ten feet tall and shows off Turner’s famously well-sculpted legs, her signature stance and shows her wearing a short skirt as she so often did while performing. It was designed by sculptor Fred Ajanogha, who said he tried to capture her flexibility of movement on stage, how she held the microphone with her index finger extended, and her hair style, which he compared to the “mane of a lion.”

And it’s the “lion’s mane” that has set off fans on social media. It doesn’t so much resemble Turner’s stylish wild coif as it does a pile of dirty socks on her head. Fans reacted on social media, as they always do, quipping that the sculptor seems never to have seen hair before, or at least Turner’s hair. See below.

The statue’s face seems to be…inaccurate, to say the least. One Australian news site captioned a close-up of the statue’s head with “We don’t need another hero…except whoever can fix this.”

The unveiling was part of the annual Tina Turner Heritage Days, a celebration of her life in rural Tennessee. The statue was sculpted in clay by Ajanogha in Atlanta and cast in bronze by a West Tennessee foundry, and it took about a year to complete. About 50 donors gave money for the statue, including Ford Motor Co., which donated $150,000. There’s no indication that it’s due to be redone, at least not at at this point.