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06-16-2010, 11:07 PM
Scissor Sisters guitarist Del Marquis has defended the band's suggestive new LP cover, branding it "really classic-looking".
The artwork for the band's upcoming Night Work album features a provocative close-up of a clenched man's bottom - belonging to Broadway dancer Peter Reed and snapped by late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1980.
"I knew that it would invoke different responses from different people," Marquis told Digital Spy. "We're a love/hate band - people seem to either vehemently despise us or love us with all their hearts - and I see that cover provoking a similar response.
"The way someone reacts to it will tell you a lot about that person. People could view it with reactionary homophobia, or they could view it as camp, or high art, or something beautiful. It reminds me of the back of Sticky Fingers actually - it's a really classic-looking album cover."
Marquis also admitted that he is enjoying seeing the controversial image enlarged for the album's advertising campaign.
"The cover's been blown up on billboards all over town and it's really exciting for me to be driving through religiously conservative neighbourhoods and seeing this giant gorgeous clenched man's ass!" he said.
Scissor Sisters release Night Work - featuring new single 'Fire With Fire' - on June 28.
The Night Work album cover:
http://imagevader.com/out.php?i=143778_ffmpeg-0-6-has-support-for-vp8-webm-html5-2.jpg
The artwork for the band's upcoming Night Work album features a provocative close-up of a clenched man's bottom - belonging to Broadway dancer Peter Reed and snapped by late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1980.
"I knew that it would invoke different responses from different people," Marquis told Digital Spy. "We're a love/hate band - people seem to either vehemently despise us or love us with all their hearts - and I see that cover provoking a similar response.
"The way someone reacts to it will tell you a lot about that person. People could view it with reactionary homophobia, or they could view it as camp, or high art, or something beautiful. It reminds me of the back of Sticky Fingers actually - it's a really classic-looking album cover."
Marquis also admitted that he is enjoying seeing the controversial image enlarged for the album's advertising campaign.
"The cover's been blown up on billboards all over town and it's really exciting for me to be driving through religiously conservative neighbourhoods and seeing this giant gorgeous clenched man's ass!" he said.
Scissor Sisters release Night Work - featuring new single 'Fire With Fire' - on June 28.
The Night Work album cover:
http://imagevader.com/out.php?i=143778_ffmpeg-0-6-has-support-for-vp8-webm-html5-2.jpg