The Temper Trap’s album cover for their 2009 debut, Conditions, which has spawned the hit single, Sweet Dispositon, is a striking picture of a little girl, who it turns out is an Afghani refugee.
Turns, out it wasn’t the Melbourne-spawned, London-based band’s first choice.
“The original photo that we wanted to take I think it was a photo of a girl who had just witnessed the twin towers collapsing on television,” lead singer-lyricist Dougy Mandagi told QMI Agency recently.
‘So she had quite a horrified, kind of stunned look on her face and our label at the time thought, ‘That’s not the kind of message we want to be putting out. Like imagine if that was on a billboard in the middle of a highway in the U.K. somewhere and people look at that – Temper Trap, album out now, girl petrified – They’re not going to want to buy that.’
“I didn’t agree,” said Mandagi. ”I just thought it was a really powerful photograph. But anyways, it’s all about compromise. So we ended it up going with (an alternative photo). Do you know that really famous National Geographic photo of the Afghani girl with the piercing green eyes? It’s world famous. Well, the same photographer that took that, took this one as well.
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