and i haven't like brushed up on my semiotics recently but i always thought the use of dolls in a lot of '90s imagery was trying to evoke tainted/dysfunctional childhood stuff
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 21 April 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
it was inspired by a science experiment Cantrell did in school iirc, where they had two jars of flies, underfed one, overfed the other, and the one that was overfed survived...and it apparently stuck w/ him for years.
their music was already too adult for kids anyway as it was primarily about heroin addiction. they were my fav band in high school but it wasn't lost on me how morbidly depressing the music was.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 April 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
whereas Korn wrote fairly exclusively about that child abuse stuff on their first album and the cover kind of emphasized that even more.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 April 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
I'm not certain that any of the visible body parts on the AiC cover are visibly detached.
― how's life, Monday, 21 April 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
yeah tbh i might just be reaching for more reasons to hate aic. i always assumed it was a doll
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 21 April 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
huh i guess i never thought of sleeps with angels as particularly uglynot great or anything just never seemed that noteworthy compared to some of these hideous ones
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 03:01 (ten years ago) link
It's so very of its time.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
Lol at Beck sounding like Bill O Riley with that "i didn't have ~time~ to be depressed when i was poor and hustlin" crap
― brimstead, Thursday, 1 May 2014 01:48 (ten years ago) link