Madonna has been branded 'disrespectful' after apparently comparing herself to Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela and Bob Marley in a bid to promote her new album. In a series of Twitter and Instagram posts, the 56-year-old singer compared her '#rebelheart' to those of the civil rights activist, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and reggae musician. The Queen of Pop did so by transposing her new album's artwork - which features her face covered in black rope - onto iconic images of the trio, before posting the Photoshopped pictures online. Alongside the photo of King - who famously delivered his 'I Have A Dream' speech during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom - she wrote: 'This #rebelheart had a dream!'
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Madonna transposed album's artwork onto image of Martin Luther King
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This saw the American civil rights activist's face covered in black rope
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Also Photoshopped pictures of Nelson Mandela and singer Bob Marley
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Alongside photo of King, Madonna wrote 'This #rebelheart had a dream!'
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Social media users branded the Queen of Pop's actions 'disrespectful'
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In December, singer forced to release six songs following online leak
On Instagram, user beate_abbey wrote: 'To lessen Mandela's and Dr. @placeholder's achievements as far as making their faces involuntarily a part of a marketing campaign for some irrelevant pop music is just a huge perception disorder.'