This could be one of the best Rolling Stone covers of all time.
All you have to do, as a woman, to get a decent Rolling Stone cover that doesn’t focus on your nipples, is sell 30 million-odd albums and break records with 50 million views of your new music video within 48 hours.
That’s the only way we can account for the fantastic cover of Adele Adkins, 27, on the magazine that usually prefers its women under-clothed.
Peering out from eyes that look like they’ve been crying all night, Adele wears what looks like a bulky bathrobe.
The picture is just a shot of her head and neck — something usually reserved for men on Rolling Stone covers.
And she’s not smiling, nor is she pouting invitingly.
Her hair is wet, but not in a sexy, tousled way. It’s more like she just got out of the shower. It fits in with the robe thing.
Her face also appears to be make-up free.
Adele is such a superstar that she can do a magazine cover in her robe, with wet hair and no make-up.
The interview inside is also fantastic. In her inimitable style, Adele talks about music, motherhood and who’s album she’s been waiting years for (Frank Ocean).
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If this image was on the cover of any other magazine you be enraged that once again a plus side singer only gets a headshot where others get full/half body shots. That's not what this is about? The don't sexually objectify her for that reason?
Precisely my thoughts.
It is a lovely cover. But whoever thought this was makeup free is presumably the person who thought that that guy (whoever he was) was Hamish Blake's doppelganger. I see mascara, eyebrow filler, blush and lipstick.
Adele usually operates at about the Dusty Springfield level, so I suppose for her it is relatively 'make-up free'.
And I can't be the only person who saw the words 'Adele Rolling Stone cover' and thought, "Oh cool. Honky Tonk Woman? Paint It Black?"