http://www.cracked.com/ar...overs.html

(Also discussed here: http://music-mix.ew.com/2...the-heat/)

And our man makes the list with Lovesexy... Agree or Disagree?

Is that all society does today? Eat, sleep, sex? Cant anyone think deeper these days....? Of course not, we're being dumbed down every day.

It clearly wasn't done to be sexy (even though some will find it sexy), it's a symbolic gesture....but, that's not interesting is it. *sigh*

Pretty funny write up on it though. The only man that looks less manly w/o wearing ladies clothes... Classic!

Anyone who actually listened to the album would know the cover is obviously not meant to be sexy. It's meant to represent a spiritual "rebirth". Too bad Prince didn't use "Rebirth of the Flesh" as the opening track on this album. It would have given the cover more obvious context.

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[Edited 5/13/10 17:34pm]

PicassoFace said:

that's pretty clear from looking at it.

errant said:

Well, it should be pretty clear from looking at it, but apparently it's not clear to some people. I think the album title "LoveSEXY""didn't help matters.

PicassoFace said:

I wonder if now would be a good time to point out that it is a HUMOR website? It would not matter what songs they used, they'd still find something funny.

Hey...maybe Prince will play a gig at the next Cracked office party since he got a spot on a list? It worked for Time magazine

LoveSexy is a good album cover IMO. The joke on the Cracked page is basically "Hey Prince, you're girly!" which is far too obvious to be considered clever.
[Edited 5/13/10 18:43pm]

Nikademus said:

I get that it's a humor website and actually got a kick out of the write-up. But since they've included this under the heading of "failed attempts at sexy album covers" they're off the mark since it implies that they think Prince was TRYING to be sexy here, which he wasn't. If they had perhaps included "Dirty Mind" on the list instead and mocked Prince's g-string and raincoat, I'd find it perfectly fitting for the heading.

at some of those covers.


And...

squirrelgrease said:

squirrelgrease said:

Damn... I didn't even notice that when I read it! I find it slightly ironic that Travolta actually looks more girly than Prince.

The problem with the Lovesexy cover is the setting with the flowers and the flower boner. It could've been much better without those.
[Edited 5/14/10 9:59am]

peter430044 said:

The pistil on the flower and it's strategic placement always cracked me up. He nasty.

Help me Jesus, I find this sexy






I know. I know.

I need help. I can live with that.

HobbesLeCute said:

I love the album cover even though I make fun of it and have parodied it.

And I doubt he was aiming for sexy. It was almost sacrilegiously serious. It's like he's praying on the cover in a weird way.




The inside sleeve of 1999---now that shit was full of fail.

TheVoid said:

OMG, the Internet is bloody wonderful!!

TheVoid said:

I hope you never grow up.

WetDream said:

I totally agree with you. Although I have found Cracked magazine to be hilarious in many cases since I was a kid, the magazine is making fun of the obvious on this one--the fact that P is naked--and ignoring the context (which they frequently used to do--haven't read it since my son was in middle school LOL). Prince is displaying his "nakedness" to the world for a reason; he is stating that he is laying his psyche bare and his spiritual transformation for all to see, symbolized in his nakedness on the album cover. It is so obvious that it is a duhhh! moment for those who don't get it! Fortunately, most of us do!

poetcorner61 said:

Sure, but you can't know that until you've listened to the songs. Not sure that these peole have taken their time to listen to the album. If you're in a record store and you see that cover, without having a clue about the music, how in the world can you know what the message is supposed to be? You just see Princey lying naked on a flower.

errant said:

Prince naked on a giant flower with his legs crossed and the head of a penis part of a huge flower pistil

Yeah ok.... Look that cover may not have meant to give off sexual vibes but there was nothing obvious about it

The cover was provacative and proved disasterous and like the song he wrote for the Vikings this past year yet another in a long line of just embarassing moments for this particular Prince fan
[Edited 5/15/10 19:19pm]

squirrelgrease said:

I really think you're missing the point there squirrelgrease, John Travolta's album was deeply spiritual. Everyone looks at the cover and sees a naked white man who shared Art Garfunkel's hairstylist. You have to look DEEPER

Nikademus said:

I'm gonna contemplate this.