The Slave to the Rhythm album cover has a white background, with a picture of Grace Jones in the center with an elongated open jaw that portrays the effect of a roar. Designed by Jean-Paul Goude using appropriative techniques, the album cover is an iconic object featured in the exhibition Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die, currently on view at the Museum of Art and Design. The album’s title, Slave to the Rhythm, is ironic because Grace Jones is a Black woman who does not flow to the general rhythm of what women of her time were taught to be. In an interview with Alida Jekabson, a curatorial assistant at MAD, Darius learned about the exhibition design process as well as contemplated why there is a lack of diversity in representations of the punk movement.
