I like the cover but
If we’re being real, drake got the connect with Damien Hirst which is a huge deal, Drake described the album to this old man and asked him to make an album cover, and he thought ‘Wow. Certified Lover Boy, hey? This young bull must be getting all the ladies pregnant!’ and came back with this idea and Drake was expecting greatness but couldn’t turn him down after commissioning one of the most valuable artists alive
if this is true...shout out to damien hirst, he knew exactly what he was doing
Credit me you f***ing b****, I created that
I officially give you credit
I’m going to repost what I said earlier. I invite you to reflect on it and think about the artwork a bit more deeply.
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.
i used u as an example cause dropping that emoji will never be the same for hip hop fans
Thank you
I appreciate that
no problem bro 🤝
I will say it'll definitely be a huge missed opportunity for Drake if he don't have a song sampling or referencing Shabba Rank's "Mr. Loverman" on the album. Especially since the song is basically about pleasing women of all kinds and celebrating sexual hedonism/debauchery. Much like this album cover kinda is.
You guys will find anyway to excuse his corniness. It’s a mental illness at this point
You out of all people got the nerve to talk about mental illness
You’re using my art
you could've put a credit on it but since you shared it it's not yours anymore take me to court b****
I invite you to reflect on it and think about the artwork a bit more deeply.
CLB cover art is pretty amazing honestly if you think about it for more than thirty seconds.
The cover reflects him being a certified lover boy who’s making women pregnant. There was a lot of thinking behind it.
I’m going to repost what I said earlier. I invite you to reflect on it and think about the artwork a bit more deeply.
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.
I'm not a drake stan but u on to something
I'd rather something really goofy and corny than something standard and boring
Would probably change it to the heart one now tho cause the pregnant women have made their impact
Album cover is definitely corny as hell though and tryna deny it is even more corny. Mostly because Drake was very likely going for a corny cover art. End of the day though it fits with the album title, it gets people talking, and it's Drake being self-aware. It's dumb, but it makes sense. Drake got it figured out
I agree in that art should be provocative and I love shock art
This isn’t recieved such a reception because the content itself is provocative. It’s because it’s a low effort and aesthetically unappealing work meant for the largest recording artist in the world’s quintessential album
Art isn’t about effort tho
S*** look at IYRTITL cover, that’s no different than this