Another Starlet as Marilyn, and 11 Other Magazine Cover Tropes We're Tired Of

[downeaznboi]

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2011/09/another_starlet_as_marilyn_and.php

• Hitchcock blondes and any visual plagiarism of the Grace Kelly/Tippi Hedren look.

• Alice in Wonderland, done at least twice in recent years by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue.

• The hands-over-bare-boobs pose. Janet Jackson did it best on Rolling Stone, shot by Patrick Demarchelier. Let her have the trophy and move on. :clapping: :clapping:

• Young comic actors, male or female, in Charlie Chaplin drag.

• The 1950s housewife-plays-house poses. It's felt icky ever since Brangelina did it for W, shot by Steven Klein.

• Naked starlets wrapped in rumpled white bedsheets. Jennifer Aniston's version of the Marilyn.

• Abbey Road. No more barefoot bands on a zebra crossing.

• Ballgown at the circus. Went out with Jean Shrimpton in the 1960s.

• Models fluffed out like Jean Shrimpton in the 1960s.

• Saucy librarian poses and any other porn-inspired fantasy.

• Grant Wood's "American Gothic." The most overused and abused image copied from the art world. When anyone from the art department suggests this as a cover idea, get the pitchfork.

[TwistedElegance™]

Couldn't have said it better.

[Mr. Wonder]

I actually enjoy the imitations.

[downeaznboi]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[Reyna ♔]

Legends set the trends that Never-Be's imitate