Sex Sells, Part 1

nobody@vox.com(W♥M) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:08:19 -0500

Here are some random album artwork that's sexually suggestive. We're not talking explicit or anything, just some eye-catching covers that I've noticed.

Pauline Croze-Mise à nu

Neon Neon-Raquel (Radio)

Robots In Disguise - We're In the Music Biz

The first album here is the 2005 self-titled debut album from French singer, Pauline Croze (paulinecroze.com). The cover shows (what looks like) a naked Croze, looking innocent with her doll-like eyes. She was twenty-five when they took that picture for her debut album, but the truth is she started writing and playing music when she was fourteen.

Last year, she released Un Bruit Qui Court, and seems to be more popular than ever.

Neon Neon (myspace.com/neonx2) has a rather suggestive and rude cover for his EP, Raquel. I don't really know much about him, apparently he's currently residing in Los Angeles, by the way of Wales?

This song, "Raquel", reminds me of early 80s new wave dance music, which I like... and apparently other people like him too as he's featured on the cover of last month's BPM Magazine.

Look closely at the cover to 2008's We're In the Music Biz by Robots In Disguise (robotsindisguise.co.uk) and you might be surprised. They're actually naked, with body paint. I guess they're more than meets the eye, huh?

If you got that joke, that's because they stole their name from Transformers^[W♥M].

These two English girls reminds me of DIY punk DJs mixing some electronic music (but they also sing). They sound really fun, don't they?

Nizlopi-Make It Happen

Dylan Mondegreen - Wishing Well

The Crayons-God Hates Me

Speaking of looking closer, does the map of Make it Happen by Nizlopi (nizlopi.com) remind you of something else?

I think the cover is pretty clever actually, nothing too sexual, and at a quick glance, you wouldn't notice the woman's body.

Apparently there's only two members in this band: Luke Concannon and John Parker, two dudes from Leamington Spa in the UK. They got their name (Nizlopi) from Concannon's crush on a Hungarian girl.

While I Walk You Home features what looks like two people about to do the horizontal tango, but with the sunlight through the window, I would have to guess this is the morning after.

Despite the somewhat sleazy cover art (at least I think so), the music of Norway's Dylan Mondegreen (dylanmondegreen.com) is actually quite nice and folky.

Finally, we have a blatant booby cover of What's Wrong With You from New York's The Crayons (thecrayonsmusic.com).

I hope the tanned gorgeous babe on the cover sell some CDs, and as easy-on-the-eye as the cover, they're actually easy-on-the-ear as well.

Check out this song "God Hates Me".

So, this ends the first part on "Sex Sells". I hope to have a collection of "unintentional porn" in my next article. (Please send me some suggestions).

04/15/2008 00:05:20 vu my♥posts weheartmusic.com

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