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What the photographer says to the artist when they're over forty.
Posted by David Hepworth on 2 March 2010 - 2:50pm.
"Tell you what. You've got a beautiful spinal column. Turn around and we'll try a few that way."
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If only they'd applied that rule to
Millie Jackson
That's...
disturbing.
I think...
... it would have been even more disturbing if she'd been sat the wrong way round.
Worked wonders...
for Mick Jagger - Goddess In the Doorway sold about 3 copies didn't it?
"You, McCartney, turn around, the other three, as you were..."
Well, it was either that or a ribald reference to Sade being taken from behind.
Actually, in the magazine publishing world, doesn't Mark Ellen just draw the cover on a napkin and get some Spanish guy to colour it in?
Say what you will...
... but I think she's smokin' hot. Even smokinger considering she's 51!!
And...
She doesn't look too shabby from the front, if you ask me.
I'll be there in a jiffy...
Blimey, think how much you'd get from Cash My Gold for that lot...
Nothing
looks like silver to me. then again.i'm no expert
Just to clarify Billybob...
Are you talking about Ms Adu or Ms Jackson?
So wrong Lord Hep.
She looks better than ever.
It has been
photoshopped to death hasn't it?
Bad Example
I know what you're getting at, but picking Ms. Adu as an example is way off the mark.
I'd say that's the result of having plenty of money
and not working too hard
After an initial burst in the 80's she releases an album every 8-10 years
That back's famous
If anyone had asked me to say what bits of Live Aid I could recall 25 years on, Sade's backless dress would have been right at the top.
This one?
I posted this vid on another Sade thread. Those of you who are of strong constitution and fancy a Lad Test, zap it to the end for the final sung notes. If you can listen to them without wincing and swearing, you're a proper double-hard bastard.
I failed. And the milk's gone off again.
around 5:40
I am not a fan of her jazzy noodlings either. I love jazz, but I can't abide jazzy.
Around 5:40 is when she 'expresses her individuality"
Her guitarist...
still owes me a tenner.
I'm going to be charitable and say that she deliberately
did that for (errrm) 'musical reasons'. Yeah, that's it... deliberately subverting the purity of the rest of the vocal by dropping in those last discordant notes.
and that.
Maybe.
"expressing her individuality"
Hm. Yes.
Good try, Stimpy. I'd have said the last bit was done deliberately to make us forget the rest of the vocal performance being flatter than a witch's tit.
Ver Witch
They're cold and flat...........sh*t!
I still fail to see
the attraction of her coupon or sub jazz lounge noodlings
I am shocked
At such catty remarks, especially from the responsible head of the parish.
She looks great and seems like a nice lady (and even if I'm not especially keen on her 'sub jazz lounge noodlings'* a lot of people are and fair play to them)
* copyright James Blast
I will bow to
better judgement than mine (Mr Crowther) but I would suggest that the original photographer had very little to do with the final image.
oh now
i bet they had to go miles to find an Aztec temple with scaffolding in the foreground...
Ha ha
I meant the Sade image not the whole picture.....
it would seem she would be setting her self
for a fall if you isn't same shape as the photo with cruel world of ok etc. I suspect there's been very littler photoshop slimming even if the picture has been processed in other way manipulating a shot isn't inherently bad.
But what does it mean?
Why is she looking at an Aztec temple at sunset? Why does a lone pterodactyl fly above? Is *she* a Soldier of Love? Is she resting against the bar that she has raised with this new album? Or is it just random mystical imagery thrown together in a "that'll-do" type way?
The raised bar
There's a Britney Spears video (don't ask me how I know this) which makes deft use of the same device for its lengthening or perhaps more accurately 'liftening' qualities.
Sade is beautiful,...
..but the cover is awful. It so dated - a rejected '80s Roxy Music image.
Thought I'd mention
I listened to Stronger Than Pride this morning. It sounded lovely, particularly the song Love Is Stronger Than Pride, which is beautiful.