“Joss Stone: Did her label make her change her provocative album-cover art?” Entertainment Weekly breathlessly asks about the two images above, one of which was Joss’ “artistic choice” to be the cover for her new album, the other the one that EMI actually sent to stores. Whether or not the former EMI darling’s curdling of her relationship with her label (yes, she wants to be “free” of her paymasters’ clutches, just like Prince) resulted in the left cover being swapped out for the right, I think we all know who loses: The designers of fonts that aren’t Comic Sans-like in their ugliness, and every single one of our eyes. (I’d even go so far as to say that any corrective lenses employed to make said peepers work get an “L” in their column as well.) [EW]
those are so goddamn terrible.
This is very tree-falling-in-the-forest, but is it still a “provocative image” if nobody can tell what’s going on in it or what the hell it means?
@Al Shipley:
I’d guess the original cover is some half-arsed attempt to display her unhappiness with her record label…she is boxed in, feels trapped, jailed, wants out…something deep like that?
@JohnOO: I think she just got stuck while trying to recreate Shakira’s moves in the “She Wolf” video.
@Thierry:
Or her new album is a concept album on the life of Harry Houdini?
You’re the best, Mom– Adobe AlbumDesigner is the coolest bat mitzvah present ever!!