everything is either so minimalistic it’s overdone or looks like it was made in Adobe flash in a day

How do you want us to buy vinyls for some of these new releases

The only big artists that seem like rheyre still putting something into the covers are Tyler,Carti, ye or Travis, or Weeknd. There’s probably more I just haven’t seen

Eternal Atake fan chosen cover was bad

Drake cover’s been bad since DLDT

Future cover’s honestly haven’t been bad

Even this year:

That yeat album cover is atrocious

H,N would be better if you could read it

Pusha cover ass

Dawn FM cover meh but you can tell he probably took his time with deciding what the cover wanted to be.

MMBS probably the best out of these big drops this year

That Beyoncé cover?

Would look 10x better with just the horse

g&g gon be mad at you for saying that

albums are dead make yr own with ur own cover

Drake has great artwork

CLB cover art is pretty amazing honestly if you think about it for more than thirty seconds. The duality of it is what impresses me the most. On the one hand, it’s just simple emojis. Seems very low effort. But this is Drake saying that he wants the music to speak for itself first and foremost. He doesn’t need gimmicks, theatrics, or controversy. Unlike some people. Music comes number 1, as it should.

But a second glance also reveals a striking complexity. The use of emojis is Drake commenting on how the digital age has reduced complex emotions and difficult conversations previously held and expressed in person to simple images, emojis. We’ve become brain dead consumers, whose thought has been reduced by corporations to the lowest common denominators that could never possibly capture the full intricacy of our individual thoughts and feelings.

Corporations like Apple attempt to homogenize us into simple unquestioning sacks of flesh, capable of only communicating through grunts in the form of emojis, not much different than our Neanderthal progenitors. This breeds a knuckle dragging populace incapable of thinking critically about the role technology plays in keeping us under heel and subservient to our corporate overlords. Drake invites us to ponder this.

I think he’s also asking us to reflect on the burden women are forced to carry in our society, and how this burden is further complicated by the intersectional oppressions of race and gender, hence the beautiful diversity of women showcased through this art.

Drake effectively makes a statement while simultaneously asking very hard questions about our postmodern society.

ok dis a pasta

so basically, op is just complaining about a few Drake covers being low-effort & subjectively doesn’t like some other covers

kendrick cover was good
wish push stickied with the lana one

drake had a good album cover?

the font they used was dope

wish pusha t never released another solo

surprised @ no mention of Kanye’s covers being absolute minimum effort since Yeezus as well

kendrick’s cover was just boring

no text, couldn’t even add a parental advisory it’s just a plain photo with plain colours

beige, brown, and white don’t leave much to the imagination

easily his worst cover

CLB cover art is pretty amazing honestly

i agree, but theres less of a reason for artists to care about covers from a business perspective because people aren't browisng CDs or LPs in stores where they're drawn to covers to pick stuff up. they're searching music on streaming where they already know the artist and what they want to listen to from them ahead of time, so the cover art is kind of secondary. that said, this is kinda just an issue in pop & hip hop, i don't think many other genres are suffering this same issue. imo the soundcloud era basically ushered in this wave, all those like MS Paint or mall spray paint t-shirt kiosk covers for churned out singles basically proved how little consumers cared about it so the rest of the genre kinda decided they were wasting time on it

Ye literally did not give a s*** with donda wat

just bc you dont like them doesnt mean they dont care

I mean, a good cover is one that matches the music. CLB cover matches the music. Album feels like drake became a parody of himself

the all black cover for donda somehow works

the dark void lends a lot to the music

TLOP is good

ye cover is lazy

Ksg cover is amazing

JIK cover is. Yea.

Donda Cover is prob his first cover where he didn't really care.

Or maybe. Just maybe.

He made it a cover u can see anytime u close your eyes

i like all the colour on it

wish they were just polka dots

I’m kinda tired of the cartoon character type album covers. Bottom of the barrel s***

its a relic of like 2016-2018 that is somehow still around and needs to die

Cover art sets the stage for the album. It’s way more important than people give it credit for