[ALBUM THREAD] The Head Above Water Thread

Okay I'm soooooo excited we have news and a cover and a tracklisting!!! Finally somethings happening!!

But the cover is beside the editing extremely dark. The picture is awesome I think, her being sort of reborn and naked and the guitar that represents the theme, but they could've made the black also a dark blue, like a blue theme (I thought that was kinda the thing with all the HAW photo's)
This album is about overcoming Lyme and such but so so dark!
AL5 had a really dark cover and now AL6 also. A pity. But this one is better then AL5, that was just scary xD But the editing (toes/forehead/legs is weird tho :\ )

And 12 tracks.. I expected more because after such a long period and her saying she has enough material for a back-to-back and such, 12 is not so much songs..... but still happy with what we get!!

Honestly don’t see the issue with the cover. I really like it and 99% of people won’t even notice the editing because they’ll look at the cover without zooming in on her feet or whatever lol. It’s way more interesting than most of her other album covers.

I like the cover but the nudity makes it a bit uncomfortable for me to look at.

Maybe not in a bad way, she just looks very vulnerable and broken. Like she's a rape victim hiding behind a guitar.

I don't know, if that's the point then it succeeded, but it's not a cute cover to look at whenever I will listen to the album.

It's a very striking and interesting image though. But I'll probably replace it with a promo picture if there's no alternative official cover.

I don't mind indecent covers (heck I like the Queen cover from Nicki Minaj) but the black and white and dark water and her pose makes me feel like (sexual) abuse. It doesn't give me a hopeful feeling which I think it's supposed to have?

That is just my feeling though, it's a nice cover. I wonder if the music content will also be very dark.

I kind of get that vibe as well but that’s pribably the point. She was a bit mentally abused/gaslighted by doctors who said she was “crazy” or “depressed” or that Lyme doesn’t exist and no one was listening to her. The disease itself destroyed her physically, mentally, and emotionally. Music was her saving grace, hence the way she’s hiding behind the guitar almost like a protective shield.

Remember also that she was basically forced to talk about Lyme when she wasn’t ready to do so (GMA interview where she cried). Any time even now that she’s asked about Lyme she appears uncomfortable and doesn’t like discussing it (Billboard video where she looked away). She feels vulnerable talking about it, like the darkest part of her life and something she kept secret for awhile, is being revealed to the whole world. She had the media making up rumors that she was in rehab, fans saying she was lazy, trolls saying she was probably faking it, the stupid Melissa theory saying she died when she really did almost die. She opened herself and her struggles to the whole world for them to not necessarily empathize with her, but to criticize her or troll.

True. Reading your post makes me love the cover.