Koop Controversy

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Caught this in their blog about how they had to redo the cover for their American Release:

We had to change the cover.
As some might have noticed, there is a slight change on the american album cover compared to the european edition. Basically, we were forced to change it by our american record company. According to them it was to controversal for america having two guys posing in make-up like the way we do.

We love the original cover. To us it's expressing beauty, friendship, unification, and the special bond between magnus and me when beeing Koop, and we have no idea how anyone can see anything sexual about that picture.

Anyway, in order to keep the same vibe as on the original there was only one thing to do. We replaced ourselves with two girls, looking a bit like us, and wearing exactly the same make-up and dresses. They are also friends, and known to us through various clubs in stockholm.

We are of course disappointed not to be able to present Koop the way we want in america, but at the same time it somehow proves how ****ed-up things are when two guys are not allowed express this kind of sensual bond, but when it's two girls it's suddenly perfectly all right.
Yours.
/oscar

Here's the original cover:


Haven't found a pick of the new cover yet