How Album Covers are Adjusted for the Middle East

June 30, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments

The Middle East can be a pretty conservative place, especially when it comes to the baring of female flesh. Petapixel has this feature on how artwork for certain albums are, er, adjusted to reflect those sensibilities. For example, we have this Britney Spears album cover.

There are plenty more examples to be found here.

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