Deftones: Whatever Happened To the Girl On the Album Cover On 'Around The Fur?'

Around The Fur: The Deftones, whatever happened to the girl on the album cover?

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I’ve covered a few stories on people who appeared on some pretty memorable albums or album covers and the stories behind the shoots and where those subjects are at today. One of my subscribers suggested doing the story on the scantily clad woman on the front cover of the Deftones sophomore record around the fur. And here were are today. So let’s find out the story behind the album cover and who the woman is and what she’s up to today.

Released in 1997 by the alternative metal, act The Deftones their record Around the Fur would be put out on madonna’s label Maverick records. Another act I talked about who was signed to Maverick was candlebox. I’ve done a whole video on their career, the link is down below. Around the Fur would produce two hits in My Own Summer (Shove it) and Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away). The album would go platinum nearly 14 years after its release. Revolver magazine wrote a pretty great piece on the story of the album cover and the website Pousta interviewed the photographer and model who appeared in the photo.

The cover would be shot by photographer Rick Kosick, whose credits included MTV’s jackass and wild boyz. Both The Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno and guitarist Stephen Carpenter were fans of the photographer. Kosick would tell Revolver how he got the gig I know Chino was really into skateboarding at the time, and Steph has always been into BMX," Kosick tells Revolver. "At the time, I was doing a lot of rock shots, too. They thought I was the right guy for the job, so everything fell into place.

Kosick would fly up to seattle to shoot the band in the studio, but he always also invited to a party with the band and some groupies. Kosick would tell revolver"They were having this after-hours party with all these chicks hanging out in the Jacuzzi," he explains. "I just happened to take a photo of a girl at, like, 4 o'clock in the morning. I don't even know who she is—she was just a groupie, I think. I just saw herand was like, Damn, I gotta photograph this. Kosick would only take one shot of the woman with a fish eye lens and it’s his feet you see on the album cover next to her. Kosick would claim the woman on the cover wasn’t happy with the photographer with him recalling to revolver She made some comment about being too close to her boobs. So I took the photo, walked away, and never spoke to her again. I know they found her and got her to sign a release, though." For his work Kosick would get a gold record from the band.

As for the woman her named is Lisa Hughes. She would give her first interview since appearing on the album cover in 2017. During the interview she would claim to be really proud of being on the album cover telling Pousta a little about herself saying and i quote
She would recall how she first heard about the band wanting to use her photo recalling “Well funny thing, I didn’t have a computer at the time and I received a call from Stephen (Carpenter) asking if I would allow them to use the photo for the cover. I wanted to see it first, but had a hard time getting a good copy, so I had Maverick Records fax it to me. It was a little dark and hard to see. But I said yes for sure use it. I didn’t have doubts, I was excited!”

There would be rumors that she was upset that the photographer was invading her space by taking the top down photo but she brushed these assertions off in the same interview.

Since appearing on the album cover Hughes would stay in touch with STephen from the Deftones but in more recent years lost touch with him.

[NikoFrederiko.]

Her response was like a dating profile thing.

[marqryan]

"Dai The Flu, " and "Mascara, " both deserve WAYYY more love than they get.

[TheNothing]

Next: Whatever happened to the old dude carrying all the sticks on his back on the Led Zeppelin IV album? Did he make it back home to build his fire? 😂

[Silverhands]

This whole album is massive hit and defined a generation.

[KROGANLovesKittensAndPuppies]

I’ve always liked the simplistic nature of Deftones’ album covers. Nothing complicated, just a cool image that compliments the font. I love Deftones!

[FloydLouisCifer]

This was one of the albums that defined my teenage years

[MiguelRamirez-crgh]

I wore a t shirt of this album cover in high school quite a few times, maybe once a week. Until a teacher (male) complained it was distracting the other students 😂 1999 memories

[jinstyles]

Listing to her describe herself sounds like her profile on a dating app.

[StevenEveral]

It's totally appropriate that a "scantily clad woman" is on the best-known Deftones album. Deftones is one of the few metal bands that draws a fair share of women to their shows.

[thedogfromraditude]

I was just listening to this album last night, and I wake up to this notification. It’s always cool to learn about stuff like this. More videos about album covers, please!

[lowkeysoundsystem]

Classic album/cover. Dai the Flu is one of my favorite Deftones songs.

[sharinglungs]

Now we also know who’s foot that was. Frankly I didn’t even know there was a foot, too focused on the girl. Great to hear she’s still ok with it and still a fan.

[griplimit]

It’s even better knowing the picture was a candid.

[jordang]

Around the Fur tells the story of a guy who murders his toxic girlfriend. “Shove her, over the railing, ” are some lyrics on the final song, MX, where he goes through with killing her.

[angelarcos]

This Album marked my life it was New Year’s Eve in 97’ the album had just came out a few months ago, I was laying on the wall by myself In a small house party and decided to play their album in a tiny radio I found, I was going through some things at the time and played the song called “Mascara” a girl came and joined me she said she really loved that song. We dated for almost a decade, unfortunately it didn’t worked out and I never saw her again, but until this day I still remember that night every time I listen to this album.

[thenightmare]

Feel like being on an iconic album that really put Deftones on the map, she should get free tickets to there shows for life or something.

[resistthesystem]

I fell in love with her, that album and artwork defined my childhood.

[lephoquebleu]

feels good to hear that she's happy about it

[cyberlingbotd]

I seen Deftones live at Ozzfest, had a deftones shirt on and I was singing and knew all the lyrics to their songs, Chino pointed right at me.

[doubtfuldrawing]

Now this is quality content, questions you didn't know you wanted to ask, cause you didn't care for the answer, but because you actually DID care about the answer. You just didn't know it.