Halsey album cover
In this post, we’ll look into Halsey album cover – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Halsey album cover
Halsey revealed the cover artwork for their album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, in a video shot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The video showed Halsey walking through exhibits before revealing the life-size picture of the artwork by pulling away a cover. The artwork, which was photographed by Lucas Garrido, features an artistic rendering of Halsey as Madonna, a category of icons and works of art depicting Mary, mother of Jesus.
In the artwork, Halsey is seated on a golden throne, wearing a purple dress, holding a baby with a towel, and exposing her left breast.
According to Halsey, the artwork represents their journey over the past few months and aims to uproot the social stigma around “bodies & breastfeeding.” The artwork was inspired by Jean Fouquet’s two-panel Renaissance oil painting, Melun Diptych, specifically the Virgin and Child Surrounded By Angels.
It sparked widespread attention and discussion on the internet, with some associating it with the topfreedom movement on Instagram “#FreeTheNipple” and noting visual similarities to the Game of Thrones character, Cersei Lannister.
However, The Spectator criticized it for appropriating Catholic art and expressed bafflement with “the complacency of today’s Catholics when it comes to the misuse of their iconography.”
A censored version of the album cover, where the exposed left nipple is covered by the baby’s hand, is also available on music streaming platforms. The censored version of the cover was also used on CD and vinyl pressings available at Target and Walmart stores.
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