When you think of Ludwig Van Beethoven, do you picture a guy with greyish hair in late 18th century attire writing down carefully constructed compositions of sonata-form piano music and then playing the compositions on his piano to make sure that they're perfect? Well apparently you should actually be thinking of a naked woman holding a conductor's baton.
(If you're a guy, you probably were anyway, but let's not get into that)
To understand what I meant by that, feast your eyes, and I do mean feast, on this album cover I first noticed on the iTunes music store:
Dang, Beethoven had a nice rack! I should be listening to more classical music!
It is actually quite a good way to completely change the target audience from 50+ year old English guys to 18-35 year old Aussie guys like us, just stick a naked chick on the front! and then when we come home from the shops with it, we'd suddenly realise we just bought a classical music CD and be really pissed off.
Ok, I've run out things to say on this issue, but here is a quick message to Shanna Moakler, the former Miss USA runner-up who thought it was a good idea to punch Paris Hilton, heir of the Hilton Hotels fortune, square in the jaw:
Thankyou
-C
2 comments:
Not sure what the hell they were thinking with the sexy Beethoven cover. Classical music fans would probably take it as an insult to their intelligence and be offended by it, or at least less inclined to buy it. But the lowest common donominator to which it seems to be targeted isn't interested in buying classical music anyway. Seriously, who buys music just out of a whim because they happen to be drawn to the album cover?!
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Not me!
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