Yeah, okay, so upon further reflection here's my thought:
I DO still love the picture at it's core. I think his expression and everything is stunning.
What's making so many people dislike it (and find it laughable, which actually worries me), is almost purely the airbrushing and the crappy text and stuff I think.
I just want to like.. go to the people at RCA RIGHT NOW and make them sit down with the
original picture, not touch his skin one bit with airbrushing, and come up with some better additional artwork for it.
The OTT-ness of the picture itself DOES work. But I do NOT freaking understand why RCA constantly seems to think people look better when they're made to look like barbie dolls! They do this with ALL the contestants, but it's just especially horrendous with this because the cover is already fantastical enough without making his face look fake. If his face DIDN'T look so fake, the concept would absolutely work in my opinion.
I still DO like it personally, but it's also worrying me to think that a lot of people who don't
know Adam as an artist yet might see the cover and totally laugh him off without even giving the music a shot. And what's
really frustrating is that it could so easily be a great cover! They just did way too much too crapily with something that was starting out eccentric in the first place. They need to go back to the original, find some better less campy font to use for the text, and then
leave it alone But unfortunately I highly doubt they're going to change it at this point.. *sigh*
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
Updated On: 10/27/09 at 09:01 PM