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Hands Up If You, Too, Thought That Chris Brown Was Going For An “Alvin & The Chipmunks” Thing With His New Album’s Cover
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Joss Stone And The EMI Art Department Will Ugly-Album-Cover Each Other To The Death
“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] MORE »
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Rammstein Take Justin Timberlake’s Gift-Giving Strategy Five Steps Further
Never let it be said that the Teutonic techno-metal outfit Rammstein doesn’t know how to get press: Their new album’s first video, the Jonas Akerlund-directed clip for the subtly titled single “Pussy,” is hailed in press releases as “the first to feature graphic adult content from a major recording artist.” (I guess the Bret Michaels/Pamela Anderson sex tape doesn’t count?) And now comes the news that the deluxe edition of that album, Liebe Ist Für Alle Da, comes in the form of a box set that includes, in addition to the music itself, a bonus CD, a pair of handcuffs, a bottle of lube, and six, uh, personal erotic aids… that are shaped like the band members’ members. Did I mention that they’re bright pink? (I’ll leave the “hotness” of said pink up to you to judge.) The (NSFW, obviously) box, in all its splayed glory, after the jump. MORE »
