Human and his environment.
I am making a comment on the album called “Seventeen Days”.
The link can be found here:
http://www.amazon.com/Seventeen-Days-3-Doors-Down/dp/B00070Q8JK/ref=pd_s...
This is an album by ‘3 Doors Down’. I did some research on the band in website and found out that the band usually sing Alternative rock. However, after listening few of these songs in this album, I personally think that this album is kind of mixed from rock to heartfelt ballad. While doing research, I also take a look at the first two albums.
I find that the first two albums rather different from each other. I feel the first album has more rock songs in it and the second album is more subtle and is not as heavy as the first album. So it makes sense to think that in this album they kind of mixed everything together.
Since this is about the cover, I will continue with my opinion on the album cover now. I picked this album because it has quite a striking image. It portrays the children on a witch craft table. This is a very interesting scene because we usually don’t see baby on that kind of place. The cover is trying to get the audience attention by letting the audience subtly questioning himself “what if an innocent baby is to be put in a place like this?”
By placing a baby on the table that is full of rotten leaves and fruits, the author is also trying to say about how children’s life are being exposed to a lot of different kind of negative things in their environment. The album title also suggests some interesting message icon that the artist is trying to get across. Seventeen is commonly symbolized as the transition of life. In our culture, we always refer seventeen to seventeen-year-old transition of teenage to young adulthood. I think what the artist of this album is trying to show is how the life of a pure innocent baby is placed at the world that is full of rotten things during the transition age and how the environment can transform a person.
Also there is also a wolf head on the table which suggest that this world is full of cunning people who just want to eat you. I think the artist is trying to get the attention of the audience who share the same view as his.
The baby seems to be puzzle by something and he seems to ask why. “Why do I have to be in this place?”
Also with the wolfs head under the baby, it appears as he is riding the wolf as it looks towards the rotten food as if it is forcing him to go to the evils of the world.
The way the baby's hair is flying, it looks as if he has just turned to look at something. And it looks as if he is ready to reach out and cry for help as if there is someone standing there. Also if you look at the way the shadows drop fall on his body the light source is coming from where he is looking. It looks like he is looking up in a last desperation for help from someone.
Submitted by aculp on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 01:21.Good points about the meaning behind the image. I would venture to say that the baby may just have been staring at one of the photo studio floodlights, although you could be right in that the shot was completely planned down to the finest detail
I think another interpretation of the image could come from the setting of the shot, namely an old mansion-like house. I'm not very familiar with the music, but it seems like the image could also symbolize the kind of upbringing in which well-to-do parents invest more in material things than in time with their children. The baby could have been bought all these fancy things, fruit, a wolf's head, and then just left here alone while mom and dad went off somewhere. That could also explain the rotten fruit.
I'll bet PETA had a field day with this album cover...
Submitted by Pan2 on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 10:24.The cover is certainly shocking, yet I think it portrays a lot of truth. Almost most people would admit that children are brought into a world with a lot of evil in it. While this is true, we tend to not apply that to our own lives. There are a lot of ways that evil tries to infiltrate our lives, and most are so subtle that no one notices. In Christianity, I know that a lot of the time there is a focus against certain figures in pop culture that are deemed bad, and then a lot of subtle influences of Satan are not considered. These can be just as corrupting as a ouija board or drugs. It comes down to this: How doe you live in the world, yet stop the corruptive effect of Satan in the world? This is obviously a very complex question that I definitely don't have completely figured out, but I do know that by living daily by the Holy Spirit of Christ, renewal of the entire person into the image of Christ is not only possible, but guaranteed. How exactly living in the Spirit looks, I'm still trying to figure out. It's a process that will last my entire life. Yet I am confident that God will somehow sustain me through this life.
Submitted by twykoff on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 12:04.I think it is interesting how you compare the first 2 albums with eachother. I also think that your analysis of the cover image is unique. The comparison between a baby and the "baby" of adults is an interesting concept.
Submitted by iamaustin on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 12:06.