Analyzing album covers: Say you will

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by michelej1

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

Michele

Yes. Can't be a coincidence

[I'msoAfraid95]

Its alright. They should of shown all of Mick and John, imo.

[michelej1]

I bet John felt rather silly lying down to be photographed like that. The other 3 are hams. Michele

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by Villavic

Yes. Can't be a coincidence

Interesting. I've never heard of the movie before - here's the description from IMDB, for what it's worth:

In 18th Century in Japan, the paper merchant Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura) falls in love for the courtesan Koharu (Shima Iwa****a), but he can not afford to redeem her from her master and owner of the brothel, since he spent all his money in the place with Koharu. Jihei's wife Osan tries to keep her husband with his two children and asks Koharu to leave him. The two lovers make a pact of double suicide to escape from the rigid rules of the Japanese society of 1720 and stay together after death.

[michelej1]

[I always liked this SYW concert review below, from Campus Circle which referenced the cover and riffed on the whole "never break the chain" theme that it can be interpreted to embody].

The cover of the new Say You Will has Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks lying prostrate, facing opposite directions with feet spilling off the top and bottom of the shot, in a visual nod to the iconic final image of Masahiro Shinoda’s Double Suicide. Does it seem pretentious for a band whose biggest radio hit is still the sunny "Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" to draw parallels to the doomed lovers in a classic of Japanese cinema? It shouldn’t because no pop act exemplifies the rock-band-as-suicide-pact so perfectly as Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham and Nicks must glance across the stage at each other night after night, thinking over their years as lovers, as enemies and as mutually-indifferent playthings of fate, and pondering, with alternate bemusement and fury, the full and terrifying implications of the phrase "till death do us part."

This is one of the reasons why it was worth whatever the scalpers were charging in the parking lot to spend two hours and thirty minutes with Fleetwood Mac. But the band had plenty to offer on an individual basis, even divorced from the drama of just having its members collected in one place. It was deeply moving, for instance, to hear Nicks’s increasingly-weathered voice settling into "Gold Dust Woman" and the new disc’s title track with equal grace. And when she pulled out Tusk’s "Beautiful Child," as an unexpected treat, a hush fell over the room like we were hearing a proclamation from a queen, which I suppose we were.

Buckingham, on the other hand, ripped into his guitar with spellbinding passion. The new record is, after all, the solo album he had such difficulty getting released, tucked into a set of slightly uneven Nicks tunes to make it more palatable to record execs. His joy at airing these songs was palpable. Even on an out-of-the-park stunner like "Come," he’s still a middling-at-best lyricist, but as always his songs muddle through a couple of verses’ worth of maddening inarticulateness before exploding into guitar solos that express everything with stabbing precision.

There’s a wistful sense of the valedictory to the band’s shows nowadays that's absent from the record itself thanks to Buckingham’s fervor, which suggests that Fleetwood Mac is reaching the September of its years. But let’s hope that Buckingham’s stubborn refusal to let even chestnuts like "Never Going Back Again" sound dated indicates that he, at least, plans to soldier on for years to come.

–Steven Hanna

[Bandon]

Snore........

[CADreaming]

I love it!

It's artsy and mildly bizarre. The tie to Double Suicide just increases the intrigue. I love the color scheme too & the section with Mick and John gives it the just the right shot of humor to balance it out. The essence of the album (and the absence of Christine) is captured beautifully in this cover with just Stevie & Lindsey featured on the front.

[Lilyfan]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

Interesting. I've never heard of the movie before - here's the description from IMDB, for what it's worth:

In 18th Century in Japan, the paper merchant Jihei (Kichiemon Nakamura) falls in love for the courtesan Koharu (Shima Iwa****a), but he can not afford to redeem her from her master and owner of the brothel, since he spent all his money in the place with Koharu. Jihei's wife Osan tries to keep her husband with his two children and asks Koharu to leave him. The two lovers make a pact of double suicide to escape from the rigid rules of the Japanese society of 1720 and stay together after death.

Wow! That falls in line with some of their lyrics in the past few years about not being able to be together but maybe in another life, or maybe in a parellel universe. Wow

[I'msoAfraid95]

The cover also makes me that Mick and John aren't as important, because they aren't fully shown, even though they founded and made the band what it is.

[FierySequences]

Originally Posted by I'msoAfraid95

The cover also makes me that Mick and John aren't as important, because they aren't fully shown, even though they founded and made the band what it is.

Wow, thx for the posts and (pics) Villavic and Michelle.

ISA95, the same could be said of Mirage on any album cover that didn't feature FLMC...the name is what is important here, I think Mick understands this.

[WildHearted]