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Naked Beth Ditto NME cover up for award

Classic shot included in 'best magazine cover' shortlist

September 9, 2008 | 16 Comments
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The issue of NME dated June 2, 2007 – featuring 's Beth Ditto naked on the front cover (pictured) – has been nominated to be crowned the best magazine cover of all time.

The award, organised by Magazineweek.net, sees NME go head-to-head with the likes of Take A Break, Loaded and Radio Times – with online users voting to decide on the eventual winner.

Users can head to Magazineweek.net now to vote for the NME in the best cover ever published award.

There are 16 magazine covers nominated in total. The winning cover will be announced during Magazine Week – which will take place between September 29 and October 5.

Cast your vote now by heading to Magazineweek.net.

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drgonzo2012

Aug 7, 2008

I should imagine the most popular heckle at her gigs is 'Don't get your tits out!'

rockgeek

Aug 7, 2008

Wow - up against such heated competition!Why the fuck would the front cover of a shit mag, featuring a talentless morbidly obese moron win anything other than "the shittest thing ever done by man"

Moz_1983

Aug 7, 2008

Why is this up for an award? Obesity is not something we should celebrate as it is just as bad as having anorexic models on magazine covers. Obesity is just the polar opposite of size zero, neither of which are healthy in the slightest. I imagine there are people out there who see this picture as a 'fuck you' to the companies who put un-naturally skinny girls on mag covers, but it really is just as bad.Lose some weight love, not just for your own health but for the obese people out there who are under the illusion that being grossly overweight is 'natural'... it isn't. Harsh but fair I feel.

KoL1000

Aug 7, 2008

clearly wont stand a chance against the Diana one

James2222159

Aug 7, 2008

I havnt anything against Beth Ditto or fat people but havin her on the frount cover and getting an award is really promoting obesity and being well over weight which is as we all no very bad for you.

the_royal_wee

Aug 8, 2008

i think it's cool, too many haters here with nothing better to do!

phrilly

Sep 9, 2008

Spot on Moz.

mal1982

Sep 9, 2008

Finally some sense! I made these points the other year when everyone was licking her arse saying she was beautiful and a great roll model... etc and was getting shot down for being fattest...Thank god I can come on here today and see intelligent people, in the majority, making the seemingly quite obvious point that Beth Ditto is no better a role model than an anorexic model! Unfortunately there will always be people like "the_royal_wee" who just aren't quite getting it. Apparently "it's cool"... though I wonder if he really knows why! Can't see it myself...

whatawasteoftime

Sep 9, 2008

Thanks for that, I've just chucked up my breakfast at the sight of that fat whale

the_cream_pie

Sep 9, 2008

Is it wrong that I've cracked one off the wrist over this cover?

the_royal_wee

Sep 9, 2008

surely the point is that this is a cover based on talent - not looks - for once. surely that premise is good? also, the fact she is naked is a punk 'two-fingers' at any who thinks you have to be a model to be acceptable to be on a mag cover. wrong - anyone should be - regardless of body type. the early loaded mags had jack nicholson and steve mcqueen on the cover - but none sold as many as page 3 girls. and the rest is history.

the_royal_wee

Sep 9, 2008

these comments are really dark. they're a cool band and it's a cool cover that doesn't submit to the horrible prerequisite that mag covers have to have models on them. doesn't make her a role model. or perfect. it just makes it novel.

liamhanley

Sep 9, 2008

I agree with most of the above comments. This cover isn't challenging or provocative or good in the way NME seems to think it is. It's wrong for many reasons. 1. It's completely pushing past the "music" aspect of what I thought was the New Musical Express and focusing entirely on the appearance of someone in a band2. She is morbidly obese and highlighting this is glorifying over-eating and an unhealthy lifestyle. If it was the front cover of the medical health journal then it might have bad connotations but you are putting this woman on a pedastal of "cool", and by promoting her image alongside this "cool" tag you are associating her weight with being cool.3. It's airbrushed to high heaven which ironically defeats any bold point (if there ever was a point) in having a fat woman naked on the magazine in some sick "punk" way.4. How can a magazine cover that makes people feel ill be the best cover of all time? There's a magazine on my floor with a bog-standard photograph of John Lennons face for the cover which is 1000x better than this trite, and it's not even a great picture of Lennon.