Art must have substance, or else it becomes decor, or a product. Substance requires effort. This lacks any sort of effort or intention other than being a tongue in cheek ploy meant for a quick buck and a few thousand likes on Twitter

The funniest thing is that you can say that about any art cause art is subjective

Not saying I disagree with you, I’m not in love with the cover art but it is what it is

I don’t think I’ve seen any memes yet

Just few Twitter posts where people edit themselves in and that’s it

“Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.”

Damien Hirst

Far from my favorite of his, but it's growing on me

Yeah because 'Drake', or more-so the 100 people that go out and research trending sounds & write and produce his music focus purely on making 'music everyone likes'

then the multi million dollar marketing meme-research-team comes thru and make it perfect to meme and get the ball rolling

then millions of people will ride Drake's d*** about it because he's so smart and popular like it's his ideas

Cover is great, it’s funny, it causes clickbait, shock, a little outrage, headlines, discussion, all without having to stand next to a s***predator on a porch

W for Drake

DONDA cover is a black square. While it was done intentionally and therefore has 'substance', explain how much effort this took exactly?

Also when it comes to CLB cover, you don't know why this cover was chosen and are going with your own assumption of why. So you can't say it lacks substance because you don't actually know why he went with this.

Hard disagree with people saying this cover is just "bait" to go viral. Just say you have a limited comprehension of art and keep it moving.

Modern day

What happened to "Drake doesn't do gimmicks and lets his music do the talking" though lmao

I think the cover is dope btw

This cover does precisely that by being so “simple” and “low effort” that there is nothing to focus on besides the music

That is at first glance. As others have described itt there is also a stunning complexity to it once you dig into the subtext. But that is not a gimmick. That’s great art.

Pop art. Post-modernism. Minimalism. Abstract.

Talk to these peons bro

I think it would be an iconic cover art if Drake gives us a classc

Idk man. Sounds kinda pretentious

They don’t get it

Warhol influence

nah yeah u right such a memeable cover and such an easy trend to take on, W move although not having his face on the cover might have a deeper meaning than we think

Yup

him not wanting to be in the kids' lives?

ktt2.com/clb-coverart-memes-thread-32493630

who are the kids youre referring to?

If you don't mind, 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.

Exactly! I’m not sure what’s so hard to get about this…