Secret 7” is an annual competition that brings creative together to raise money for charity. The organisation takes 7 tracks from 7 well-know musicians globally and invite creative to produce the vinyl sleeves for these tracks. The creatives are anyone who wishes to submit their designs as well as famous designers and illustrators. 

 

The 7 tracks were;

Age of Reason – Black Sabbath
Grounds for Divorce – Elbow
Strange Creatures – Jake Bugg
Team – Lorde
Karmacoma – Massive Attack
Virginia Plain – Roxy Music
Get It On – T. Rex

The track I chose was Get It On by T. Rex.

Focusing on the lyrics, ‘Well you’re windy and wild/You got the blues/I’m your shoes and your stockings/You’re windy and wild’. I chose to use arguably the most iconic image of wind in pop culture (Marilyn Monroe in the white dress).

 

I sexed up the image by adding illustrated shoes and stockings – in keeping with the lyrics.

 

I chose to rip and scan the photo to add a more rock and roll element to the work, enhanced by the illustration being crudely placed over the top.  

To me the song has quite a sexual element and that is what I chose to focus on, using an iconic sex symbol and making her more risqué and racy by adding suspenders and black shoes. 

 

As with the song, the outcome is more suggestively sexy rather than directly sexual. The combination of the beauty and elegance of Monroe and the provocateur-ish addition of the stockings also echoes the lyric ‘dirty sweet’, which is repeated throughout the song.