Madonna's NSFW album cover ridiculed
Madonna has revealed the cover of her Madame X album cover to mixed reviews.
The NSFW album cover shows an image of a nipple pierced by a single red rose.
She announced the cover on Instagram with the caption: “Portrait of A Lady...............Madame X. Album drops June 14th.”
Madonna’s risqué album covers have been a staple part of her music for many years, but some fans aren’t happy.
The singer’s Like A Prayer album cover was described as “provocative and controversial” at the time.
It showed a woman with her thumbs looped into her jeans with her top pulled up to show her stomach.
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In more recent times, Madonna’s 2007 album, Hard Candy, shows her in silk handcuffs and thigh-high leather boots.
Her True Blue album cover, which iconically shows Madonna with her head tilted back, was heralded as being a mixture of “sexy and charming”.
For some, though, fans think her Madame X album cover took it a step too far.
Some simply wondered why Instagram weren’t censoring it. One user wrote: “This is beautiful but can anyone tell me why this photo isn’t being censored by Insta when photos of women breastfeeding their babies are?”
Others were straight to the point: “You don’t need to use skin/sex to sell your music.”
Another wrote: ‘Would you want your daughter to publish this [sic] of herself publicly?”
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One commented underneath saying: “Stop being so judgemental, there’s nothing wrong with this.”
“They’re just nipples. Get a life.” Another commented.
Madame X is Madonna’s 14th album. It comes 36 years after her first album, Madonna and four years after her last album, Rebel Heart.
Rebel Heart was slammed by fans after she released a series of photos of human right’s activists bound up in black rope by way of promoting the album.
