The singer has adopted the mysterious naked instrument shot for her new record. What does it reveal about her artistic ambitions?
It doesn’t half get warm when you’re a Woman in Music™. Frankly, this is the only reason we can find for so many having to resort to the rock’n’roll equivalent of the Ladies Laughing With Salad stock photo. Yes, it’s the never knowingly empowering Lady Posing Naked Behind a Guitar trope. The latest extremely limited variation on a theme dreamed up by a middle-aged record label exec in need of some fresh thrills after his wife ditched him for a hench personal trainer from Potters Bar comes courtesy of Avril Lavigne.
Now 34 years old, the Sk8er Woman is expressing her maturity by appearing on the cover of Head Above Water, her first album in five years, in moody black and white, like a Camden High Street busker as directed by Fellini. Stripping off, jumping in a large puddle and strategically manoeuvring her body behind an acoustic guitar, we can see neither nipples nor pudenda but plenty of leg, a smidge of sideboob and a Brigitte Bardot bouffant. “I can play this thing,” says this brand of pose, “but playing this thing isn’t my priority; my priority is trying to make sure the photographer doesn’t get too handsy when he moves the bugger.”
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