{"id":319,"date":"2006-05-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/05\/rolling-stone-bares-its-soul-o.html"},"modified":"2006-05-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T12:00:00","slug":"rolling-stone-bares-its-soul-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/05\/rolling-stone-bares-its-soul-o.html","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stone Bares Its Soul (or Lack Thereof)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The big, fat extra-special 1,000th issue of <\/a>Rolling Stone<\/a> <\/em>just arrived at the door complete with a psychedelic, 3-D cover featuring just about every rocker imaginable. The theme of this special edition is a cover art retrospective (which could double as an early Annie Leibovitz gallery showing) and it’s a must-flip-through if you happen to be in the bookstore and browsing.<\/p>\n

Featured covers that stood out most memorably?<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone<\/em> Issue #22 from November 23rd, 1968<\/a>, featuring an in-the-buff couples shot of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, with a photo caption that reads, “And they were both naked, the man and this wife, and were not ashamed.”<\/p>\n

The Rolling Stone <\/em>Issues that make me cringe: #701, #729, #793, and perhaps most cringe-inducing of all, #909<\/a> and #932<\/a>, featuring Demi Moore, Jennifer Aniston, Laetitia Casta, Christina Aguilera, and Britney Spears respectively (yet not so respecfully<\/em>), all virtually naked in some sexed-up pose, and displayed across a centerfold spread. Ugh, ugh, ugh! Why, oh why, do women (girls even!) have to take off all their clothes to don the cover of Rolling Stone<\/em>? (Readers should note: Almost all covers featuring male artists have them fully clothed and almost all those of female artists are partially or fully un<\/em>clothed. Interesting, isn’t it?)<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone <\/em>#993 from February 9th of this year, memorably features Kanya West as a thorn-crowned Christ figure and blogged about here by my fellow writer Ellen Leventry in her entry, “Kanye West’s God Complex<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

My overall take-away from this restrospective’s perspective–religious artists, at least ones that haven’t made it mainstream, seem virtually absent from this mega-magazine’s eye.<\/p>\n

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