What Is Going on With These Terrible Album Covers

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    JT is Electric

    compared to

    Yea I never liked this cover lol

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    guwop

    It all went downhill after uzis fans chose that walmart t shirt design for eternal atake

    What were the other options?

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    ASAKI

    3.15.20's and Donda's covers make perfect sense and are fitting for the albums lol. Yes, it's "lazy", but folks just want rehashed, super maximalist artsy covers a la MBDTF like they're fanfics.

    Album covers aren't just for you to stare at your vinyl that you're never gonna listen to.

    Honestly, which do you think is better?

    Or

    First picture encapsulates 2020 so well and the album dropped 2 months before George Floyd was even killed

  • Urameshii

    I grew up in the era where we never gave a f*** about an album cover just vibed to the music

    what era was that? cause i'd like to believe cover art has only become less important as far as the generations that make up ktt's user base.

  • Brev




    There's some fire out there if you look beyond the mainstream

    that titanic rising artwork is stunning. love it

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    KOLLAPS

    i like donda explanation better (what u see when u pray)

    haven't heard that but I like that explanation.

    that being said I changed the art for both on my Apple Music lol

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    Smacked Voodoo

    Brooklyn rapper Yasiin Bey expressed his love for the Madvillainy album cover in a 2009 interview by explaining that he purchased the vinyl on sight despite not owning a record player. “I bought it on vinyl just to stare at the album,” he said “I stared at it and I just kept going, ‘I understand you.’”

    I can't blame him, I'm looking at my Madvillainy poster right now

  • it's so corny when y'all post obviously s*** covers that only a small amount of people would see value in. like some of these artists being mentioned haven't had incredible artwork in the past. like that's not proving your point i'm sorry. lol

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    Brev




    There's some fire out there if you look beyond the mainstream

    Yeah man thats my whole thing. On the mainstream side of things its f***ing embarrassing. Outside of it tho there's some f***ing heat. All of the covers you posted are incredible and there's an obvious difference between the ones you posted and the ones in op. Niggas just don't know art and this thread is proof of that based off the responses of "they are decent"

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    Putting DS4 in @op made this a shameless bait thread

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    Smacked Voodoo

    Even though Kiss Land is my favorite Weeknd project, one thing I'm always gonna knock is its album cover.

    It's just mad...boring. Not the best picture of The Weeknd either.

    I've seen a lot of alts made for it that look better, and while I know some he likely couldn't use because it features naked women on it, case in point this one:

    He probably couldn't do this because again, nudity, but I feel like this would've fit well as Kiss Land was his debut album. It fit the same kinda theme as his mixtapes, however it would still stand out the most among them due to its color scheme being so striking from House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence

    Another one I think he should've used was the cover art he used for the Kiss Land single. Clearly he could've used this one too because that's what is used on DSPs for that song

    I've always thought kissland cover was ass also. He couldve gone about it in so many different ways.

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    Brev

    Honestly, which do you think is better?

    Or

    First picture encapsulates 2020 so well and the album dropped 2 months before George Floyd was even killed

    There's no real "better" in art.

    The first picture is obviously a lot more fleshed out literally, but the second and actual cover is much more ambiguous. It makes you think a lot more about what the themes for 3.15.20 are and allows the person consuming that art to interpret the album in different ways.

    Like the Donda cover. Some people think it's supposed to be signifying death and mourning (theme throughout the album and the title with his mom). Some think it's Kanye flexing the fact that he can do whatever he wants and still be at the center of attention (the masks and all that). Even the "closed eyes" meme still holds some kind of meaning.

    I'm not trying to sound "pretentious" or whatever buzzword KTT feels like throwing up today. But the two album covers you showed have different goals in mind. One isn't necessarily better.

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    @op not a true art fan

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    Smacked Voodoo

    Even though Kiss Land is my favorite Weeknd project, one thing I'm always gonna knock is its album cover.

    It's just mad...boring. Not the best picture of The Weeknd either.

    I've seen a lot of alts made for it that look better, and while I know some he likely couldn't use because it features naked women on it, case in point this one:

    He probably couldn't do this because again, nudity, but I feel like this would've fit well as Kiss Land was his debut album. It fit the same kinda theme as his mixtapes, however it would still stand out the most among them due to its color scheme being so striking from House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence

    Another one I think he should've used was the cover art he used for the Kiss Land single. Clearly he could've used this one too because that's what is used on DSPs for that song

    Second cover is ass. It’s a new era why keep trying that Trilogy s***

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    ASAKI

    There's no real "better" in art.

    The first picture is obviously a lot more fleshed out literally, but the second and actual cover is much more ambiguous. It makes you think a lot more about what the themes for 3.15.20 are and allows the person consuming that art to interpret the album in different ways.

    Like the Donda cover. Some people think it's supposed to be signifying death and mourning (theme throughout the album and the title with his mom). Some think it's Kanye flexing the fact that he can do whatever he wants and still be at the center of attention (the masks and all that). Even the "closed eyes" meme still holds some kind of meaning.

    I'm not trying to sound "pretentious" or whatever buzzword KTT feels like throwing up today. But the two album covers you showed have different goals in mind. One isn't necessarily better.

    Lot of words to cope. You'd prefer having the first cover rather than the one we actually got. You know it, I know it, anyone reading this post knows it

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    Z 326

    OP really dropped some dope ass covers (minus CLB and Pooh Shiesty) and thought he got one lol

    Open ya eyes dumb ass lil boy. They some ass up in op.

  • Nozuka

    Music is in a terrible spot overall IMO

    Lot of artists aren’t doing anything special and are making comfortable albums that don’t challenge the listeners

    Hope artists get inspired again

    a pandemi lovato will do that lol.

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    KOLLAPS

    wlr cover hard

    that benny the butcher s*** looks insane tho like how

    when I looked at close up I couldn't believe how basic that s*** was. That s*** legit look like it was made off an app.

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    MyLeftBrain

    But DONDA is about death
    Is a total black cover makes sense
    It’s the POV of the dead
    It’s the Sopranos of album covers

    yeah i get that i just found that guys comment very goofy cos it’s obvious why he picked it

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    thegreatdivine

    this is a cover you like or dislike?

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    Z 326

    and that Gunna cover reminds me of this dope Keef one y'all fr smoke crack

    That s*** look dumb as s*** boy I ain't even tryna be mean bro but your taste in art is terrible. You like the anti Picasso or something you evil uncultured mf.

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    Nozuka

    Music is in a terrible spot overall IMO

    Lot of artists aren’t doing anything special and are making comfortable albums that don’t challenge the listeners

    Hope artists get inspired again

    This is true for mainstream music only
    pastemagazine.com/music/best-albums/best-hip-hop-albums-2021
    Lots of fire dropped last year, it just wasn't made by the Drakes and Kanyes of the world

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    Carl Sweatpants

    Open ya eyes dumb ass lil boy. They some ass up in op.

    Gunna cover - fire one, reminds me of Keef cover i posted above, may not be everyone's cup of tea but it's still nice
    Weeknd - y'all are really pissed off about this cover for no reason at all lmao it's not that serious
    Drake - garbage
    Kanye - yeah i'm not discussing black squares
    Benny - fire af cover that fits the album nicely (classic album btw)
    Pooh Shiesty - yeah that one is ass imo
    Carti - cool cover

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    thegreatdivine

    still the worst cover in years

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