When an artist's name becomes italicized and otherwise stylized on an album cover, the project is cemented as an official record of their life up to that moment. She is finally alone and finally returning our gaze. Based on the visual cues alone, Aaliyah signals that Aaliyah, the person and the artist, is ready to show more of herself and stand squarely in her own truth. Not quite in the spotlight, but not quite hidden. In both instances, she is in focus, but just left of frame. On her two prior album covers, Aaliyah wears dark black sunglasses coupled with a backwards baseball cap on 1994's Age Ain't Nothing But a Number and a side-swept bang on 1996's One in a Million.
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