Iranian music streaming service retouches album covers and completely removes Western singers like Lady Gaga.
Streaming service removes women from album covers – The most important thing to start with:
- Iranian music streaming service Melovaz largely removes women from album covers.
- Melovaz retouches the covers with Photoshop, but this doesn't just affect female artists alone, but also members of groups like Afro B. Artists like Mitski, for example, remain on the cover.
- Iran has one of the strictest internet censorship policies in the world.
We received inquiries about an article claiming a streaming service was removing female singers from album covers:
Iranian Music Streaming Site Removes All Female Singers From Their Album Covers, And It Looks Really Wrong
The fact check
Yes, that's true. The Iranian equivalent of Spotify removes female singers from the album cover.
futurezone , the streaming service is called Melovaz and, with the exception of a few (e.g. Mitski), allows female artists to disappear via Photoshop. But it's not just singers who fall victim to image editing - in some cases, everyone is even deleted from the cover.
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As Süddeutsche reports, Iran operates one of the strictest Internet censorship regimes in the world. The internet police Fata controls social media platforms and Facebook and Twitter have been blocked for years. Women are not allowed to appear uncovered in public.
In the fall of 2019, 22-year-old influencer Sahar Tabar was arrested . (we reported on Sahar Tabar in 2017 )
Conclusion:
Yes, the Iranian music streaming service Melovaz mostly makes the images of women on album covers simply disappear using Photoshop magic. Iran practices strict internet censorship.
If you want to check for yourself, you can use the streaming service's search function and search for Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, but also Afro B. Because here too, 7 people were simply retouched.
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