The sexy singer and Saadiq appear naked, in an embrace, with their bodies painted for the eye-catching shot - but Stone insists it's supposed to be an artistic statement, and nothing sexual. Stone says, "It's a picture that everybody kind of looks at it sexually, but it isn't... He (Saadiq) is from Oakland, I'm from Devon, England; he is 40, I am 19; he is American, I'm English. "It's, like, two completely different people. It says something and I wanted to say something, otherwise there's no point in doing it." [source] Ooooh the fact that she had to go there with the age and where they're both from sort of bothers me. What does that have to do with the picture?!? Things that make me go hmmm.....

In related news, Joss dropped by TRL to promote her album, "Introducing Joss Stone" as well as her new hair color. [pic credit 1] [pic credit 2]

"I had my hair brunette for a year and I liked it," she revealed. "But the record company was like, 'No, Joss, you've got to go back to blonde, you are making your life difficult.' I couldn't believe the stress over the colour of my hair. And so I said, 'OK, I'll dye it.' And I did - pink. I said, 'You know what, you are being shallow, and if you keep going on about it, my hair will go from pink to green to blue to yellow and then I will shave it off, because I don't care about my hair.' I don't like being told what to do." [source]

[Joss Stone leaving TRL]