Discussion: Where Did Pop Faces Go?

Bloomers

So, I've been trying to keep up with the latest in music and one of my favorite things has always been the artwork that goes along with the singles and albums.

I was browsing through the artwork on my ipod and I noticed: Pop musicians seem to be obscuring their face more and more difficult to see within the past several months.

There seem to be several categories of this face obscuring as well.

There's:

The Partial

in which part of the face is shown, and the other part is hidden or out of shot.

The multi-image

There are several images here, but they overlap and make the face difficult to see

The hair view

We mainly see the hair, and usually some angling away from the camera.

So my question is: Is this becoming a trend in pop releases? Are you here for this? Why do you think these musicians no longer want to show their faces in such an image dominated business?

Era

Sia ha impact!

Truth Teller

WAIT

This is so true

I think it's because the beauty shot / face close up has been done a million times in a million different ways. When eras started spawning 4 - 5 singles (and 4-5 single covers), people ran out of ideas of how to make a close up work and stand out, so now they're hiding their faces to find the balance between not basic close-up and not lazy graphic over a black background (no shade to the iconic BEYONCE cover)