Forgotten Art
We all love music, in one form or another. It ambiguously brings people together and makes us individual. Whether we buy a CD from our local store or download tracks of the internet music influences our lives and provides a source of comfort or entertainment.
If you’re anything like me, you understand the frustration of having a track on iTunes with no album artwork. No picture to accompany the song. No visual representation of the track. Nothing. When I flick from cover to cover in my collection of songs I begin to understand why the music industry spends an immense amount of time and money on album packaging. In a lot of cases it is the cover that persuades you and me to listen and then buy the album. That one piece of art spoke to us individually and represented what we feel is music.
Unfortunately it seems that in the past few years most of the music industry has not put as much imagination into these covers as they once did. Walk into any music store and you’ll be bombarded with dozens of albums with a close ups of the artist striking a cool, dramatic pose. Very pretty to look at, but after a few moments it grows into nothing more than a dull snapshot.
That isn’t to say, however, that artists do not try to be inventive. The Red Hot Chili Peppers'”Blood Sugar Sex Magik”, Take That’s “Progress” and Kanye West’s “Late Registration” are just some of vivid images that come to mind.
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