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That Bowling For Soup sleeve decoded 'at last'

  • May 12, 2010
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You may recall that last week we featured the sleeve for last year's Bowling For Soup single 'My Wena' alongside efforts by Shayne Ward and Belinda Carlisle in a roundup of terrible cover art, adding that "even with an impress­ive 2:1 in Media Studies we're having trouble decoding this one".

Well, help is on hand in the form of an email from Andy Medhurst. Andy is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film & Cultural Studies at Sussex University. He was also our tutor when we were at Sussex.

Writes Andy:

Speaking as somebody, erm, implic­ated in your 2.i in Media Studies, that hideous penis sleeve (a new death metal band name?) is obviously a classic example of dis­place­ment.

They had to put a woman in a dick suit to displace the desires they feel for licking each other's bits.  That would not be rep­res­ent­able in any known universe, obviously.

And don't be so mean to Belinda's Voila — I love that album!

Well that clears that up, then. We hope there is never another reason to feature this CD sleeve on Popjustice.

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