Analyzing album covers: Say you will

Villavic · #1 02-12-2013, 03:10 PM

And now.. Say you will. Your thoughts about the album cover?

Villavic · #2 02-12-2013, 03:16 PM

I don't like the cover that much. Not that I dislike, but there's something missing. Probably Stevie and/or Lindsey fans love the picture, but IMHO it looks more like a Buckingham Nicks album than a Fleetwood Mac. I would have included a Mac or Fleetwood member, and in this case I'd choose John.

Maybe John and Lindsey would have made a cool picture, like in the Rumours days. If it worked for the back cover, why not for the front this time?

WildHearted · #3 02-12-2013, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

I don't like the cover that much. Not that I dislike, but there's something missing. Probably Stevie and/or Lindsey fans love the picture, but IMHO it looks more like a Buckingham Nicks album than a Fleetwood Mac. I would have included a Mac or Fleetwood member, and in this case I'd choose John.

Maybe John and Lindsey would have made a cool picture, like in the Rumours days. If it worked for the back cover, why not for the front this time?

Well, Mick and John are on the back, aren't they?

Kind of like the Mirage cover in a sense, only without Christine.

michelej1 · #4 02-12-2013, 03:34 PM

Love it. Bought the Criteria Collection version of this movie, just because of the album cover. Had a lengthy post about Lindsey and the paper merchant, but I don't know whether it was here or on fmlegacy.

Anyway, aesthetically, Stevie's waved hair and nicked waist looks great and I am sure there is a name for figures that interlock, but I don't know what it is. Whatever, that's what Lindsey and Stevie look like, interlocking puzzle pieces waiting to be pushed together to be made whole. Yin and yang.

Ostensibly facing opposite ends, but the differences make the joinder possible, but it also has a sensual component. I mean, it suggests artistic and physical combination.

I love the black and white and just the red for the title. That's borrowed from the Double Suicide cover too, as is Stevie's outfit, even though she's not in a kimono. The flow of her top is modeled after the movie.

LOVE IT.

It's not my number one, because I'm always going to have 3 songwriters on my covers, but SYW is my #2.

Michele

cantgoback · #5 02-12-2013, 03:34 PM

It's kinda boring, it seems like they didn't try to focus on the cover, just the album, which is ok since the music is good. It's just kinda boring. It's not intriguing like Rumours, Mirage, Fleetwood Mac, Or Tango. It's just kinda... there.

Villavic · #6 02-12-2013, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by WildHearted

Well, Mick and John are on the back, aren't they?

Kind of like the Mirage cover in a sense, only without Christine.

Oh yes, that's true, but probably the non-fans, general public.. will remember just the front cover. In Mirage case, Christine is a "Mac", so it is not so B/N style cover.

I agree with cantgoback it's boring and not intriguing.

elle · #7 02-12-2013, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by WildHearted

Well, Mick and John are on the back, aren't they?

Kind of like the Mirage cover in a sense, only without Christine.

i was going to type exactly this!

someone posted the whole SYW cover, back and front (like Mirage whole cover was posted) in one of the threads recently.

i think it's great execution of a cool idea behind it.

however i love simplicity of the SYW deluxe red cover even more.

FierySequences · #8 02-12-2013, 04:08 PM

It's art based on art, I love it.

What is this Double Suicide Michelle is refering to? I remember reading it was based off of an Asian artist, but I can't recall the whole concept. Was DS an Asian film?

It also follows in the theme with them all in bed for RS cover.

michelej1 · #9 02-12-2013, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by FierySequences

It's art based on art, I love it.

What is this Double Suicide Michelle is refering to? I remember reading it was based off of an Asian artist, but I can't recall the whole concept. Was DS an Asian film?

It also follows in the theme with them all in bed for RS cover.

It is taken from the famous movie Double Suicide. You can see the cover on Amazon. That is what SnL are modeled after.

Michele

redbird · #10 02-12-2013, 03:46 PM

I wish John and Mick were on the cover too, if it's going to feature any band members. I also can't get into the wood grain, of all things, and I'm not really into the way Stevie's hair fans out.

"Say You Will" felt like two solo albums spliced together so w.r.t. that the cover's appropriate, and black/white/red is one of my favorite color combinations, but it still feels a little generic to me.