Prior to Playing Possum, bands such as the Ohio Players and Roxy Music featured women in erotic poses on their album covers, but in that context - illustrating albums by all-male bands - eroticism could easily look exploitative or even degrading.Ĭarly's singer-songwriter contemporaries certainly took a more ascetic approach to album art. The album cover and her defence of it represented a brave, although perhaps unintentional, intervention in that decade's earnest debates about sexual politics and the objectification of women in popular culture. "Being attractive sexually is not something which I feel guilty about or embarrassed by in any way", Carly told a Rolling Stone reporter soon after Playing Possum was released in 1975.
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