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But listen carefully, and you’ll realize that she’s saying something else entirely: Namely, she doesn’t need anyone else but herself to succeed (see for example, the triumphant “Woman,” where she declares, “Don’t buy me a drink, I make my money / Don’t touch my weed, don’t call me honey”). The ongoing narrative surrounding Rainbow is that it’s a statement - namely, that she doesn’t need Dr. “It’s not pornography, it’s sexy,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald at the time. But in 2006, he was busy being a sex icon, when his Gangsta Rap album - depicting the cop-bashing star post-coitus with his now-wife, Coco - stirred up controversy, prompting record stores to conceal the album’s racy cover. Next year, 59-year-old rapper-nü metal visionary Ice-T will become a sexagenarian. Still, if you’re not willing to shell out hundreds of dollars to see Bowie’s dog dick, you can grab a magnet of the artwork for $3.90. Yet early versions of the record featured gatefold artwork depicting the singer’s junk on a canine lower body - and the “uncensored genitals” copies of the record are highly, highly collectable. But you’d never be able to tell from the above cover - it just looks like an airbrushed take on ol’ Ziggy. David Bowie, Diamond Dogsīowie’s 1974 LP features the late icon depicted a dog-human hybrid. The album represented “an unbreakable flower that survives under the hardest conditions and still thrives,” she told Yahoo! Critics, however, immediately pointed out that Alanis pulled the whole hair-over-boob-saviour thing first. The album was The Voice star’s reentry into the pop game, bolstered by singles like the Blake Shelton-featuring “Just A Fool,” and Lotus‘ cover not-so-subtly reminded us that Christina’s back, baby. And five years earlier, Christina Aguilera used the same tactic on 2012’s Lotus. On Rainbow, Kesha’s nudity signified a rebirth. “And celebrating that side of women, and all the complex things you can be except for just being sexy.” Christina Aguilera, Lotus Yet Natasha Khan’s understated nudity - she carries a man on her shoulders like a wounded soldier, only showing a hint of bush - proved a point: She deliberately chose, in her words, an “unsexy” pose because she was bored of how the media represented women. “I got into the idea of not shaving my legs and being a bit raw and wild about it,” she told NME upon the album’s release. YOU WILL SEE BOOBS AND BUTTS AND WIENERS.Īs nudity goes, Bat For Lashes’ The Haunted Man is about as artful as it gets, landing somewhere in between the Black Crowes’ Amorica and Belle and Sebastian’s Tigermilk. WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IMAGES ARE NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Here are 16 musicians who placed their bodies, in varying degrees of nudity, on their album covers.
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Rather, nudity’s long been used a symbol of both power and vulnerability-and getting naked on an album cover, something that’s centrally used to market a record, often gets blowback from record companies, retailers and the conservative-minded. And how did she choose to package her newest collection? With an album cover that liberates her butt.
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Liberty from the constraints of a misogynistic music industry. Liberty from the constraints of her clubbed-out aesthetic-the album dabbles in country, rock bangers, and piano-driven ballads. Liberty, evidently, from her alleged abusive past with Dr. Kesha’s excellent new album, Rainbow, is a cry for liberty.