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Funniest Memes of the Week – Overly Attached Girlfriend, Regretful Toddler, and More
As usual, we've explored the depths of the internet, sifted through thousands of hilarious memes and finally put together the best memes from the week for you to enjoy. Take a look at our favorite toddler (Regretful Toddler), the classic Forever Alone meme and a variation of the Bad Luck Brian meme.
Album Cover Models Then and Now
There are some album covers that are just iconic (Nirvana's 'Nevermind' and U2's 'Boy' are two that come to mind). Because the album art is the first part of the album to reach consumers, and is the visual representation of the band, artists are usually picky about what graces the cover of their album. Many times it's a picture of the musicians themselves that is featured on the cover, or a piece
Album Cover Models Then and Now – The Arctic Monkeys, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’
Then: Chris McClure was just a 19-year-old and a friend of the Arctic Monkeys when the band gave him, his cousin and a best friend money to spend on drinking and a night out.
The photo of McClure squinting at the camera and smoking a cigarette that ended up on the cover of 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' was snapped late that night...
Album Cover Models Then and Now – The Arctic Monkeys, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ [NOW]
Now: Chris McClure (center), now 25, is the frontman and lead singer of the Sheffield, UK band The Violet May. He is busy touring, performing, and releasing new music. There were rumors that McClure quit smoking, not because of the criticism of the album cover, but because he could no longer afford the habit...
Album Cover Stars Then and Now – Violent Femmes, ‘Violent Femmes’ [NOW]
Now: Billie Jo Campbell is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She lives in Los Angeles and works with her mother for their women's casual wear company. She's a Violent Femmes fan and has actually used her cover fame as a bragging point to meet boys in college...
Album Cover Stars Then and Now – Violent Femmes, ‘Violent Femmes’
Then: Billie Jo Campbell was three-years-old when a photographer approached her and her mother on the streets of LA asking her to participate in an album photoshoot.
Campbell says her mom was "a free spirit, and thought it was great" and so they went to the shoot and the rest is music history...
Album Cover Models Then and Now – The Rolling Stones, ‘Sticky Fingers’ [NOW]
Now: Dallesandro, who identifies himself as bisexual, is a grandfather and manages a hotel in Hollywood with his third wife and cat.
Album Cover Models Then and Now – The Rolling Stones, ‘Sticky Fingers’
Then: Though it's up for debate exactly whose jean-clad crotch is featured on The Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' album, it is most likely that of Joe Dallesandro who was an associate of Andy Warhol and starred in many of Warhol's factory films...
Album Cover Models Then and Now – Korn, ‘Korn’ [NOW]
Now: Ferrara graduated from New York University in 2009 and majored in communications. She says she does not like listening to Korn but that she hopes to work in the music industry someday.
Album Cover Models Then and Now – Korn, ‘Korn’
Then: Justine Ferrara was just 6 years old during the shoot for Korn’s self-titled debut.
Her uncle Paul Pontius who had signed the band to Immortal/Epic Records was the one to ask her to be in the shoot.
Though the controversial album art depicts a menacing shadow of a man approaching a young girl on a swing, Ferrara says "he was a super-nice guy; he was doing me a favor, by blocking my eyes
Album Cover Models Then and Now – Led Zeppelin, ‘Houses of the Holy’
Then: The six children pictured on the cover are actually from a collage of multiple photos of the siblings Stefan and Samantha Gates who were just 5 and 7 years old at the 10 day photo shoot at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland...
Album Cover Models Then and Now – Led Zeppelin, ‘Houses of the Holy’ [NOW]
Now: Samantha Gates, now 46, lives with her husband and daughter Tallulah in Cape Town but the real star of the family turned out to be her younger brother. Stefan is now a cooking show celebrity, most famous for hosting BBC2's 'Cooking In The Danger Zone...
Album Cover Models Then and Now – Smashing Pumpkins, ‘Siamese Dream’ [NOW]
Now: There was some confusion when frontman Billy Corgan tweeted that their current bass player was one of the girls on the cover. This had to either have been a publicity stunt or a hoax, because according to bassist Nicole Fiorentino's age, she would have to be 14 years old when the photo was taken, much older than the girls look...
Album Cover Models Then and Now – Smashing Pumpkins, ‘Siamese Dream’
Then: The cover of Smashing Pumpkins' best-selling 'Siamese Dream' album features two girls pressed together on the cover, so close they could be conjoined.
The photo was taken specifically for the cover (it was not candid) but for a long time, the identity of the girls was a mystery...
Album Cover Models Then and Now – U2, ‘Boy’ and ‘War’ [NOW]
Now: Peter Rowen, now 38, is a professional photographer based in Dublin. Though the cover did get him female attention when he was a young boy (he claims he'd "get phone calls from girls in America...how they got my family's number, I don't know...