Annie Lennox has described the picture that will appear on her forthcoming new album as showing "a mature woman facing up to failed expectations of life". Talking about the packaging of new album 'Bare' she told reporters: "I don't want to represent myself visually in some kind of cliched, airbrushed, saccharine kind of way. I want to reveal myself as I am. I am not a young artist in her early twenties, I am a mature woman facing up to failed expectations of life and facing up to core issues. I have never been known to toe the safety line in terms of how I represent myself. As an artist I need to be authentic, to take risks to break the mould when necessary."
Talking about the music on the album, out 9 Jun, she added: "Bare contains songs that are deeply personal and emotional. In a sense, I have exposed myself through the work to reveal aspects of an inner world which are fragile and broken through experience, but not entirely smashed."