Controversial "Musica" Statue
Nashville, Tennessee
"Music Row" used to be a strip of car and country music museums and souvenir shops. Now it's become "renewaled" into Nashville's boring trendy coffee bar district -- with one mildly amusing exception. In October 2003 "Musica," by artist Alan LeQuire, was erected in the Music Row Roundabout: nine larger-than-life nudes cavorting and floating up to 40 feet in the air. At the apex, a naked woman holds aloft a tambourine.
Ridiculous as it is, Musica has nevertheless received condemnation from Nashville's most prudish, who probably didn't like the car and country music museums either.