Female Artist Album Cover Removals

About

Female Artist Album Cover Removals refers to Iranian music streaming services which photoshop female musicians off of their album art. Although, Iran has been known to censor women's media for decades, in September 2019, Twitter users began sharing the photoshopped albums in order to mock them.

Origin

Although Iran has been actively photoshopping images and films to promote modesty for decades,^[1] On September 29th, 2019, Twitter user @IzzRaifHarz^[3] tweeted, "If you are bored then you can try checking this music streaming site from Iran, they censored every female on music artwork like they don't even existed" adding a link to the site Melovaz^[2] and in the thread added screenshots of the albums saying, "Look at this atrocity askjskjkss. Even Twice is not safe from being erased lmao" (shown below).

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On September 29th, 2019, Pop Crave^[4] re-shared @IzzRaifHarz's idea saying, "Fan bases on Twitter are reacting to Iranian music streaming platform censoring women from album/single covers" (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 17,100 likes and 4,700 retweets in two days. That same day, Twitter user @japansmercy^[5] replied to Pop Crave's tweet with a screenshot of Miley Cyrus' album captioning it "she definitely ain’t coming" (shown below, center). The tweet garnered over 340 likes and 20 retweet in two days. Iggy Azalea^[6] also replied to the tweet saying, "The jokes on them cause I put a vagina reference in every song so who really won" (shown below, right). Her tweet accumulated over 48,200 likes and 7,400 retweets in two days.

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