Is Harry’s one giant cowlick purposeful or accidental?ġ6. Will I ever love anything as much as this photographer appears to love a good fish-eye lens?ġ5. What did Elizabeth Debicki do to Tim Walker? (Forgive the tangent, but I have to know.)ġ4. Did Harry choose Tim Walker as his album photographer because he was responsible for the most deranged celebrity photoshoot in recent history, pictured below? Tim Walker for W Magazineġ3.
Did Harry’s mom let him take school pictures with a fun backdrop? (Answer: yes.)ġ2. Why does this remind me of all the boring school pictures I took because my mom didn’t want to pay extra for a fun backdrop?ġ1. Is it supposed to look like a JCPenney Portrait Studio? Because it doesn’t not look like a JCPenney Portrait Studio.ġ0. Is Harry Styles living inside someone’s mouth, like Jonah from the Bible?ĩ. Is this a spin on that cheesy Pinterest pose where someone is holding the photographer’s hand?Ĩ.
If so, couldn’t we have done without the leather gloves? Give us some credit, Harold.ĥ. Is the hand supposed to be the viewer’s hand?Ĥ. Is this a sex thing? (It’s OK if it is a sex thing I just want to know going in that that’s the intended vibe.)ģ. What is that freaky leather hand in the corner?Ģ. Still, certain retailers would only sell the album if it was wrapped.FINE LINE. Much like the album art for Fine Line, this album cover was made a little less sexual thanks to the strategic way Prince posed. The cover depicted an all-naturale Prince sitting atop a flower. In 1988, Prince released the album Lovesexy. The black-and-white images proved to be very controversial.Īnother pop innovator, Prince, followed suit years later. The front and back side of the experimental LP showed John and Yoko standing without wearing clothes. John Lennon and Yoko Ono released the collaborative album Unfinished Music No. This much-publicized image of Styles is a first for him, but certainly not the first for a major pop singer. Eh? Do you want a small naked?” He added that naked images should be poster-sized, so he only included the image on vinyl versions of Fine Line. The singer explained “I think if you were to fold a picture up into a CD booklet…No one wants a naked that small. Styles was asked about this artistic decision during an interview with Sirius XM. This image is only available on vinyl copies of the album. Harry Styles performing in 2017 | Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images Whether Styles posed for this image to make a statement about love and vulnerability or to promote his album is up for interpretation. The photograph’s combination of nudity and bizarre imagery make it vaguely similar to an early Salvador Dalí painting. The camera angle – and Styles’ thigh – keep the image from being too revealing. Styles is in his birthday suit, but the image is still tastefully PG-13.Īnybody hoping for full-frontal Styles nudity will be disappointed. Harper’s Bazaar reports the album features an image of Styles on top of a large sculpture of a human heart being clasped by a giant hand. The inside of the cover of the vinyl edition is a little more risque. The actual cover of Fine Line is pretty tame. The album cover is reminiscent of the 1970s in another way – its sexually liberated attitude. The cover shows the singer wearing a pink and white outfit which is more reminiscent of David Bowie’s wardrobe than Styles’ usual looks. The album art for Styles’ upcoming album, Fine Line, feels like a 1970s throwback.
Harry Styles | ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images Harry Styles’ risque new album