Nachoes!: George Michael ‘90
At the peak of his celebrity, George Michael attempted to disappear from his own work. George Michael ’90 explores Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, the visual world he constructed around it, his refusal to participate in conventional promotion and the conflict with Sony that followed.
Episodes
George Michael removes himself from the cover of Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, beginning an attempt to separate his music from his celebrity that would become central to his battle with Sony.From George Michael to Charli XCX, an exploration of how minimalist album covers can make a creative statement through the deliberate absence of the artist.Having spent the Faith era with his image inseparable from the music, George refuses to appear in “Freedom! ’90”, putting some of the world’s biggest supermodels in his place.A closer look at David Fincher-directed “Freedom! ’90”, the supermodels and the destruction of the iconography of Faith, as George Michael transforms his rejection of pop idolatry into pop iconography of its own.