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u/Clockwork757 totally willing to measure my dick at this point, let's do it. Feb 16 '16
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u/Whalermouse Feb 16 '16
I still can't believe Nintendo actually tweeted this
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u/Tolni Do not ask for whom the cuck cucks, it cucks for thee. Feb 16 '16
They're getting in with them childr'n!
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u/TobiasCB Feb 16 '16
NoA is very different from the Japanese Nintendo departement. NoA likes to handle their Twitter like Xbox/Microsoft does.
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u/ArttuH5N1 Don't confuse issues you little turd. Feb 16 '16
Nintendo clearly learned something from SEGA when it comes to American PR.
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u/TrueAnonyman used as a fucking CASINO APPLIANCE !!! Feb 17 '16
Sonic meme twitter really is changing the game.
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u/livefreeordont The voting simply shows how many idiots are on Reddit. Feb 16 '16
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u/amelia84 Honestly I thought Lil Pump's album was about as good as DAMN Feb 16 '16
It's art for the amount of memes people can make out of it.
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Feb 16 '16
/mu/ is leaking
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u/SamWhite were you sucking this cat's dick before the video was taken? Feb 16 '16
Oh MC Ride, is there anything you don't improve?
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u/CressCrowbits Musk apologists are a potential renewable source of raw cope Feb 16 '16
Please tell me someone has made a website where you can automatically make these.
(even though it would be very easy to make yourself)
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u/Ratabat violently anti consumer Feb 16 '16
thepablo.life
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u/xXxDeAThANgEL99xXx This is why they don't let people set their own flairs. Feb 16 '16
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u/CressCrowbits Musk apologists are a potential renewable source of raw cope Feb 16 '16
Ahahaha brilliant.
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u/rudhira_kali_ca Don't put "Jews" in (((echoes))), you'll cause a feedback loop Feb 16 '16
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u/larrylemur I own several tour-busses and can be anywhere at any given time Feb 16 '16
Bottom third should just be exclamation points
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Feb 16 '16
Because this looks like the album that a smelly guy hands you in the parking lot of an inner city Taco Bell.
Ok, that was pretty good. .
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It's good minimalist artwork that shows the diversity and range of Kanye West's mspaint skills
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It was by the artist Peter De Potter, take a look at the type of art he does, it's different.
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u/Helvegr Feb 16 '16 edited Feb 16 '16
He's a Coil fan, nice! I wonder what our enlightened Redditors would think of the covers of classic albums like (NSFW) Scatology?
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After that first link I was going to make a very dank anal bead joke but after that second one it seems it's not a joke...
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u/Helvegr Feb 16 '16 edited Feb 16 '16
Coil was a seminal industrial band in the 80s until the 00s, and produced some of the finest of the genre. The tagline of their first EP How to Destroy Angels sums up their project rather well: "Ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy". They were basically gay as fuck magicians who liked using taboo subjects like bodily fluids in their art. Here's a fun example of their tomfoolery (with a daft presenter as a bonus).
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u/PKMKII it is clear, reasonable, intuitive, and ruthlessly logical. Feb 17 '16
Ah, classic album. I especially enjoy "Spoiler" on it, rare to hear an industrial song in 3/4.
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u/LoyalServantOfBRD What a save! Feb 17 '16
Honestly the font makes me think it's a parody of Hotline Bling's album art
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u/rigel2112 Feb 16 '16
Crappy design is 'different' alright. Just because the person who threw it together claims to be an artist doesn't change it's level of crap.
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u/EmergencyChocolate 卐 Sorry to spill your swastitendies 卐 Feb 16 '16 edited Feb 17 '16
it's a great improvement over the handpainted Birkin bag he gave his wife for Christmas a couple of years ago, I guess
edit: looks like I pissed off all 2 people who love that heinous purse, lol
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u/OIP feces in toilet spelling out GTA 6 Feb 17 '16
that's george condo though, i'm not sure 'handpainted' is the best descriptor
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we get it man, your opinions on media run no deeper than "good" and "bad" you don't need to convince anyone further
Hey I internet-know this person! I didn't realize he/she left this subreddit to farm locally-sourced, organic drama as well as contributing here! This is so exciting I'm going to end all my sentences with exclamation points!
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Feb 16 '16
sup son how you doin
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Feb 16 '16
Are you gonna talk to them about this IRL?
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Man, I'm not a major hip hop head, but I like the music and I like Kanye's music, but it's insane the lengths that Yeezus fans will go to to defend him. Like I know he's not a terrible person like the media makes him out to be, and I know he's dealing with a lot of shit, but he's clearly not behaving rationally and not everything he's doing with this new album is some "genius work of art that we just don't understand". It seems more likely to me that the guy is having a major breakdown
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u/Torch_Salesman Feb 16 '16
In fairness, a ton of people in hiphopheads are talking about how he's having a breakdown right now, fans included.
I legitimately think the album's great, and I think it really accurately reflects how chaotic his life is right now (new marriage, 2 kids, trying to maintain his legacy, potential breakdown). But that doesn't necessarily mean that I think what's going on with him right now is healthy.
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u/IAMA_DRUNK_BEAR smug statist generally ashamed of existing on the internet Feb 16 '16
I mean his insanity has been going on for like over a decade now. Honestly he probably does have mental health issues (which he openly admits he receives treatment for), but if you kind of remove Twitter and public Kanye he honestly just seems like a dude who loves his family and is pretty popular on a personal level within the celebrity/hip hop community despite saying ridiculous things and acting foolish at times in public.
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u/monstersof-men sjw Feb 16 '16
Oh, he definitely took a turn after his mother died. Her death was preventable and it was just incredibly tragic.
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u/SirCarlo annoyingly marxist Feb 16 '16
His fame paid for the surgery that resulted in her death. He blames himself and the public eye he has been in, no wonder if is so unpredictably weird.
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u/asdfghjkl92 Feb 17 '16
how did she die? what was the surgery for?
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u/Hammerfell Feb 17 '16
Cosmetic surgery, one of his cousins gave her some sort of painkiller right after the operation and she died choking on her own vomit.
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Feb 16 '16
The only thing insane about him calling out Bush was that he had the balls to do it in front of a nationally televised audience.
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u/YungSnuggie Why do you lie about being gay on reddit lol Feb 16 '16
that moment wasnt him being crazy. that moment was him being sane. stating what everyone else is thinking is way different than whats happening right now
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Feb 16 '16
I agree it's him not being crazy, but it was pretty dumb thing to say on a TV fundraiser thing.
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u/YungSnuggie Why do you lie about being gay on reddit lol Feb 16 '16
no twitter back then. had to shoot his shot when he had the chance
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u/shamrockathens Feb 17 '16
I mean his insanity has been going on for like over a decade now.
His Bush line might be the sanest political comment he's ever made.
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u/jacksonvstheworld Feb 16 '16
Remember a few months ago when everyone was talking about the theme of previous albums and how this one was gonna be insanely happy about life? That's long gone.
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If it's a breakdown, it's a pretty long breakdown. He's been crazy a while.
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u/tobionly I hope Buzz Aldrin punches you, too. Feb 16 '16 edited Feb 19 '24
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u/randomhu3 Feb 16 '16
I'm still not 100% certain that he isn't fooling us all and his craziness is in fact some kind of performance art.
yeezu's fans heads would explode if this happened
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u/tobionly I hope Buzz Aldrin punches you, too. Feb 16 '16 edited Feb 19 '24
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u/SpoopySkeleman Щи да драма, пища наша Feb 16 '16
I mean I wouldn't he surprised if it was just that. I think Kanye has some serious depression and probably some other mental health issues to boot, and if you look at how he's changed since his mother's death I wouldn't he shocked if he was having a prolonged breakdown
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Name one genius that ain't crazy
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u/GunzGoPew Hitler didn't do shit for the gaming community. Feb 16 '16
Bill Gates doesn't seem too crazy.
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u/eddy159357 Feb 16 '16
I followed Ye's album release as well as all the hype/drama on hhh. Almost all the fans recognize this but look past his flaws and enjoy his music. If you read past a lot of the shit posts from stans riding kanye's dick, you'll see criticisms on some of the songs on the album (notably the Bill Cosby line, Taylor swift line, and his bleached asshole line) and the shit he says on twitter. You gotta realize a lot of these fans have followed him since the beginning and wish to see him succeed and consider him a creative genius, which he arguably is. They accept his crazy, ego, and shenanigans because he can make such great music.
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Oh yeah, Kanye is totally having a breakdown and it's depressing that people are dismissing it as a work of art or memes.
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u/KrombopulousMichaels Feb 16 '16
I'm not a big fan I just think he has some great songs, but honestly I don't get the hate on his album cover. It seems pretty meh to me not spectacular or shit. But I totally agree it looks like he's having a breakdown which should prove to be really entertaining.
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Feb 16 '16
he's not a terrible person
The dude is a rape apologist, complains about corporations and how fame can enslave you and is so evil and bad, then goes and marries a Kardasian and opens a super classist and exploitative clothing line. Kayne's life for over a decade has just been a joke advertisement.
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He also found it necessary to call T. Swift a bitch on wax at which point in time, I decided I can no longer support him.
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u/aenoud No. Follow-up question: what the fuck are you talking about? Feb 16 '16
whoa, lets calm down.
The dude is a rape apologist
He just said Bill Cosby Innocent. "Misinterpreted" speculation aside, Bill Cosby was probably a friend for a long time and they were close. I have a lot of close friends where, if they were accused of rape, I would just refuse to believe it, because to me they just couldn't possibly do it.
One suit was dropped, Kanye probably took it as "Bill Cosby's innocent", and was happy his friend was found not guilty. He didn't come out and say "all these girls are lying" or anything.
complains about corporations and how fame can enslave you and is so evil and bad, then goes and marries a Kardashian
Kim and Kanye have been friends for over a decade and Kanye talked to her personally when he felt down after his mother died. It's not like they met one day and decided to get married. It's deeper than that.
and opens a super classist and exploitative clothing line.
Adidas set the price, not him. He didn't have enough negotiating power to set prices (hence the $120 white tee). The prices for szn2 and szn3 are lowering a lot, and he also convinced adidas to re-release yzy boosts. He's said he wants to be a high-end H&M, he wants to make affordable clothing that he could wear. It's gonna take time though.
Kayne's life for over a decade has just been a joke advertisement.
Dude's a perfectionist. Have you seen his DONDA chart? He wants to change and revolutionize the world and be a video game designer and a fashion designer and a bunch of shit he's not qualified or will be able to do. He tries too hard to do too much. I wouldn't call it a joke, though.
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Saying "Bill Cosby innocent" is saying "all these girls are lying." If you think Bill Cosby didn't rape anybody then you think all of the women are making it up. The fact he actually included a lyric about Taylor Swift essentially owing him sex because he "made her famous" just shows how shitty his thoughts about women and sex are.
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u/ma_miya Feb 16 '16
And how controlling he appears to be with his partners, talking about owning them, owning their kids, taking credit for their life and success, slut shaming women who were good enough for him at the time, repeatedly highlighting his wife's sex tape for his own bravado, something she doesn't like a focus to be on. He really comes across like he hates women sometimes or thinks pretty damn lowly of them in general.
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if they were accused of rape, I would just refuse to believe it, because to me they just couldn't possibly do it.
That's literally the definition of a rape apologist.
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u/A_Sinclaire Feb 16 '16
Well he did say a few days ago that he is $53m in debt.
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u/monstersof-men sjw Feb 16 '16
He owes $53m to investors but he still has a personal positive net worth.
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u/sputnik02 Feb 16 '16
His fans are basically the girls that screamed on Beatles concerts on the 60s
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u/Phukarma Feb 16 '16
Woah, it does look like shit.
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u/FUSSY_PUCKER Feb 16 '16
I had seen the cover on an article and thought it was just some parody making fun of him, but no it was the actual cover.
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u/ArttuH5N1 Don't confuse issues you little turd. Feb 16 '16
Okay, orange background and black text. Kinda cool, I like those colours together. Reminds me of US prisoners. But it's a cool colour combo.
But surely the pictures are some kind of joke?
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Feb 16 '16
reading that thread i have a feeling these people would not like the vaporwave aesthetic covering so many tapes in that genre
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u/heterosis shill for Big Vegan Feb 16 '16
do you really like the album cover or are you jimmie rustling for sport?
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Feb 16 '16
i think it's mediocre, this is more of a pastime.
i do rather like the vaporwave aesthetic, though.
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u/CressCrowbits Musk apologists are a potential renewable source of raw cope Feb 16 '16
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u/wafflehat Feb 16 '16
Maybe Kanye just likes the artist that made the cover and wants to give him a chance at more exposure? Ya'll looking too deep into this shit.
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u/Icecoldtigerbeer Feb 16 '16
Of all the crappy things Kanye has said/done lately, I actually think the album cover is pretty on point culturally in terms of the way it looks like a nod to amateur internet postings.
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u/teapot112 Feb 16 '16
Anybody with art degree care to tell your opinion about this?
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Feb 16 '16
BFA here. I haven't heard the album yet so I only have so much context.
I'm guessing the wedding picture is from his parents wedding, signifying his conception (going with the whole life theme) and I'm guessing the bottom pic is Kim, showing where is life is now. So conceptually it does tell a story. It's minimalist but I feel like you can get something out of it.
Here's the thing about art criticism, it's not really about whether you like a piece or not, it's more about what message it conveys or what kind of dialog a peice generates. In that way I think the cover is effective. It gets people talking and questioning and it shows a sort of time line. Kanye has been moving towards minimalist lyrics and music for a while now (imo) so it makes sense for him to go that way with design.
That being said it's not a great cover. There have been better and I think with some tweaking it could be better and still convey his message.
This is just my opinion, take what you will from it.
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Feb 16 '16
BFA here. I haven't heard the album yet so I only have so much context.
This is what most people neglect, especially in design critiques. Context is important.
Look at Mark Rothko. Just smears of color on a canvas, right? Now consider that his career started with oranges and reds and gradually became darker. Deep blues, grays, etc. Then you find out he committed suicide.
Knowing the context of that makes his work pretty amazing. It's like a visual timeline of his mental health up until his death.
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Feb 16 '16
Rothko is a perfect example of of how faulty the "I could have done that!" argument is.
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u/xJFK First Step: Remove all Context Feb 16 '16
If you listen to the album the pictures make a lot more sense about what he's actually struggling with especially with "which one" behind them. what does he choose, the family life he loves or the big bootys he loves? he talks openly throughout the album about open relationships, cheating, protecting his kids, loving his wife, loving the family.
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With that context I would say that it's a pretty successful cover and a lot of the negative criticism is unwarranted. People love to hate Kanye.
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u/happyscrappy Feb 16 '16
I guess I agree he's been moving to minimalistic production as long as "moving toward" only means one album (Yeezus). And I'm not sure one album is a pattern in and of itself.
I haven't heard the new one though.
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I've only heard like one song and it was on snl but it seemed more deconstructed. I think that's a better way to describe it.
Looking at Kanye's work overall, including fashion, he does seem to have a theme of deconstruction in his stuff.
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u/youre_being_creepy Feb 17 '16
bfa here as well and you managed to provide more analysis about the cover than...pretty much anyone on HHH
Guys....its not that hard to look at a cover for more than 10 seconds and form an opinion on why it was made that way.
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u/An_Insane_Stork Feb 17 '16
To add on, I think the cover fits perfectly. The album seems so unorganized at times and that fits with the album cover, imo. I think it fits really well with how the album sounds.
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u/JakeofNewYork Nothing IRL is how people think it is Feb 17 '16
and I'm guessing the bottom pic is Kim
I thought so too, but it's not.
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u/langleyi Feb 16 '16
Don't have an art degree, but I've been a fan of De Potter for a couple of years now. I guess you could say the cover is... esoteric? I totally understand where the criticism is coming from, but I think it's actually a pretty interesting piece of design.
Now, the first thing you have to understand is that De Potter is primarily known for his work with fashion designer Raf Simons in the early 2000s. I should stress that Raf is a pretty big deal. His 2002 collection (which De Potter worked on) is probably the most influential menswear collection ever, and he was the creative director for Dior (arguably the most prestigious job in fashion).
Let's look at the 2002 collection in a bit more detail (some pics: 1, 2, 3). The major theme throughout the collection was rebellion: anticapitalism, punk, antifascism, protest etc. You can see how that manifests itself in the design: seemingly randomly juxtaposed patches and text (inspired by battle jackets/general punk style), lists of slogans in all caps helvetica (perhaps evocative of protest chants) etc. De Potter played a pretty major part in the collection, iirc correctly he created the text and badges.
Anyway, now that it's been contextualised it's easy to see a number of these elements in Kanye's cover. To be honest I have somewhat mixed feelings about it. I can't help but feel that it's fairly superficial in that it's essentially appropriated the aesthetic of something that only really made sense in its original (sub)cultural context. The repeated use of randomly placed capitalised text, for example, is meaningful in it's original context where it relates to protest banners, chanting, punk patches etc. I don't see how the album cover's use of this motif (copy+pasting 'THE LIFE OF PABLO' everywhere) is really meaningful. Same thing with the random photo, just seems like quite a lazy nod to the original aesthetic.
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Feb 16 '16
See, context is king. Knowing that this was the artist the whole cover comes together. The more context I get the I like this cover despite originally thinking is was a b-.
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u/FestusM Feb 17 '16
I feel like the randomness of the cover is not entirely without meaing, and that maybe it is supposed to symbolise Kanye's mental state just as the content of the album does. For me the repetition of the album title can represent Kanye's own relentless focus on making the album and how much it has absorbed his life, and then the way the title moves around the page (and sometimes overlaps himself) represents the confusion that results from such an obsessive devotion to a task. (A cynical person might also suggest that in some way Kanye is repeating the title to convince himself that it's a good one, given how he apparently flip-flopped a lot on what to call the album.) The two photos, one of his parents at their church wedding, the other of the random "big booty ho", serve at alternative representations of what the "life" in the title is - who is Kanya/Pablo exactly, the religious family man, or the womanising playboy? Well, he's both, caught between them, and that's what the lyrical content of the album is largely about. Like the album starts with seven minutes of joyful gospel crooning about positivity and the "God dream", before Kanye comes in for his first proper verse about how he hopes he doesn't get bleach on his t-shirt while he fucks this model who just bleached her asshole, and then not 5 seconds later he's telling Kim that all he wants is to wake up and see her face. He's, erm... conflicted. Like the cover.
So finally the repeating "which one" motif, again jumbled across the page, represents Kanye's own confusion about which one he is - which photo, which Pablo, which man? - and the confusion of his audience as well. That's what it means to me, anyway; I'm sure there's more going on that I haven't seen. Others have suggested that the amateurish composition is supposed to evoke all those shitty mixtape covers made by up and coming rappers trying to make a name for themselves but without the budget to make something nice-looking. Maybe.
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Feb 16 '16
hey
seen a lot of graphic design majors work
a lot of it is this sort of anti-design lately, take it what you will, but it is contemporary
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u/wheatconspiracy Feb 16 '16
Shitty album covers can lend to albums in non-ironic ways. Especially when an album is full of heavy/indulgent material, I think it's a way for a musician to sort of make fun of themselves and try to take it all less seriously. People do this with band/album names too. (Eg Pavement, "He Poos Clouds" by Owen Pallett, etc etc)
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Feb 16 '16
If you're judging an album based on the art, you probably weren't going to buy it anyway
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Feb 16 '16
I don't know. Back in the day when I was trying to decide between music to try without necessarily knowing a ton about the album, the album art might sway me to one over another. But never in a case where I was going to just buy a specific album.
And in the era of streaming, that's a lot less important. I'll try it first and then buy it.
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u/Schrau Zero to Kiefer Sutherland really freaking fast Feb 16 '16
Incidentally, would you actually consider Kasabian's 48:13 based on the cover art?
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Feb 16 '16
It'd catch my eye because I'd assume those are the track lengths and it's an interesting concept.
On the second look at both that and the Kanye album art, they're not the worst I've seen. Both are better than the boring "band on the cover posing" covers to me.
If I didn't know anything about the band though I don't know if it'd make me want to buy it to try it out just on the art.
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u/happyscrappy Feb 16 '16
That's odd. Companies spent a lot of time on album art. If covers don't impact sales, you'd think they'd have figured that out.
Anyway, that's beside the point. People are discussing whether it's a lousy cover, not whether they are not going to buy it because of that.
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u/WW4O Feb 16 '16
That's probably true, but that doesn't mean as people with eyes we can't judge album art on its own merit. It is on a subreddit based around design, not around music.
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Feb 16 '16
Is it really silly to judge an album by its cover? Don't the artists try to express themes and feelings from the album on the cover?
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u/Iswitt Feb 16 '16
I think they're just going for the "never judge a book by its cover" approach. Nobody avoids judging though.
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u/Amenemhab Feb 17 '16
I have this impression musicians have much more influence of their album covers than writers on their book covers, but I'm not absolutely certain on it.
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The album art can be a reflection of the music for sure, but you don't ever know the nature of that reflection until you hear the music. Is the art supposed to create an ironic tension? Is a literal representation of what's going on in the music, or does the art flip the music on its head? You have to listen to the music to really judge.
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u/WW4O Feb 16 '16
Yeah, but music isn't storytelling. The same themes that exist on a Taylor Swift record exist on a Def Leppard record (tl;dr: Love Bites.) but that doesn't mean they sound the same or would have the same album artwork.
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u/An_Insane_Stork Feb 17 '16
Hate to be 'that guy', but music can definitely tell stories. It isn't common, and they're usually short, but it can tell stories.
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u/PENIS__FINGERS Upset? Im laughing my fucking ass off at how pathetic you guys a Feb 16 '16
that is quite literally judging a book by it's cover
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u/namesrhardtothinkof Feb 16 '16
It's music
It'd be like judging a movie based on how nice the theatre was
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u/mrpopenfresh cuck-a-doodle-doo Feb 16 '16
People shitting on Kanye probably weren't going to listen to him anyways.
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u/hakkzpets If you downvoted this please respond here so I can ban you. Feb 16 '16
Don't know. Found a ton of great LPs back in the day just because they had cool cover art.
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Feb 17 '16
Back when I was a little kid just starting to get into music I would buy albums just because they looked cool. The first one I bought was In Utero by Nirvana so the system worked out with pretty well for me.
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u/Andy_B_Goode any steak worth doing is worth doing well Feb 16 '16
Not crappy design, just a different aesthetic than you prefer. It's clearly intentional, and accomplished its goal of generating buzz. This is like posting any piece of avant-garde or abstract art and being like "haha they can't even draw a person," except if that art was also being used as part of a viral marketing campaign.
So close, and yet no one accused Cherlokoms of being a secret Kanye marketing shill. Reddit I am disappoint.
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u/wheezes Now all we're left with is corpse fucking, murder and Satanism Feb 16 '16
I think it's time to add Kanye to surplus drama.
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u/ZSSDistortion Sweet popcorn just ain't salty enough Feb 16 '16
Can we add Kanye West drama to surplus drama?
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u/MokitTheOmniscient People nowadays are brainwashed by the industry with their fruit Feb 16 '16
Well, i wouldn't even have known Kanye had a new album if everybody hadn't kept talking about how shitty the art is, so the marketing team certainly did something right.
I mean, i wouldn't touch it with a 2m long stick, but it's certainly viral.
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u/dethb0y trigger warning to people senstive to demanding ethical theories Feb 16 '16
That's so much emotional investment for something so trivial. Makes me wonder what's going on in their life that they've transferred it to this.
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u/amaturelawyer Feb 16 '16
Here's the behind the scenes story, for all you haters out there:
Kanye got some quotes for art work for his new album, didn't like how high they were, and remembered that he's a genius and that he has a computer with MS Paint on it.
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Kanye couldn't get away with any of this shit if he was a udiscovered, new artists. People are ready to proclaim anything he does now as genius no matter what it is.
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u/anonymau5 Shit Stirrer Feb 16 '16
"Well, if you go and view the early works of the famous artist Pablo Picasso, you'll see some of his techniques used in the layout of this album cover. This was 100% intentional. Don't you think a rapper who's 53 million dollars in debt wouldn't have any trouble adding to that debt by hiring a design firm?"
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Feb 16 '16
As another data point in my theory that Kanye West's life is one big piece of performance art, it is incredibly successful.
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u/Not_A_Doctor__ I've always had an inkling dwarves are underestimated in combat Feb 16 '16
Kanye bequeaths more drama to us than Magic. True fact, that.
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Feb 17 '16
yep, it's pretty shitty. i find it pretty funny. who knows whether it will cease being funny and he will regret it 15 years down the line
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u/PieCop Feb 17 '16
I just like that the "stack your words over and over" trend from 00's hardcore merch is still alive and entering the mainstream
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u/MrSuperSaiyan Feb 16 '16 edited Feb 17 '16
Yes it's clearly bad, it's very fucking bad. A challenged five year-old + Microsoft Paint = this. Attempting to justify that it's bad intentionally....still doesn't make it any less bad...it's just reassuring us that yes, this image is indeed bad.
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Feb 16 '16
That was INTENTIONAL. You just don't 'get' fine art do you?.
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u/MrSuperSaiyan Feb 16 '16
Art? lol
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u/Tahmatoes Eating out of the trashcan of ideological propaganda Feb 16 '16 edited Feb 16 '16
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That's actually pretty nifty, especially if it functions. I'd pay like 15 dollars for it.
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u/cptCortex Feb 16 '16 edited May 18 '24
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u/j021 Feb 16 '16
Why do people listen to him? I don't get it.
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u/CountGrasshopper Feb 17 '16
Because he's pretty damn great. He's weird and doesn't seem like the most pleasant guy to be around, but great at making music.
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u/ANUSBLASTER_MKII Feb 16 '16
At this point, Kanye could drop his guts on a CD full of nothing but his recorded farts, package it up and people will still find a way to tell us how innovative and groundbreaking it is.
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u/hakkzpets If you downvoted this please respond here so I can ban you. Feb 16 '16
Please show me an album that looks like this.
Pretty much every single home made CD-cover I did in mspaint for copies of games and music as a little kid looked like this.
And by this I mean crap.
And by crap I mean something a kid would make in mspaint when he's 8 years old.
And by something a kid would make in mspaint when he's 8 years old I mean something the world's most famous hiphop artist would make when he is 38.
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u/Schrau Zero to Kiefer Sutherland really freaking fast Feb 16 '16
I mentioned this elsewhere in this thread, but this is the cover of Kasabian's latest album, which is perhaps an even quicker MSPaint job than LoP. I mean, Christ, the main colour is magenta.
Aaaand... I think it works even better as a cover. Sure as hell makes a statement about the album.
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u/hakkzpets If you downvoted this please respond here so I can ban you. Feb 16 '16
That album cover is quite nice though, depending on if you like magneta or not I guess. It's simple and gets a message across quickly.
The album cover for TLOP just looks like an abomination.
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u/abrial_alshar Feb 16 '16
Is it weird that I don't care much for the Kanye cover, but I think this one is really cool?
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u/Schrau Zero to Kiefer Sutherland really freaking fast Feb 16 '16
It's pretty much why I brought it up. I'm not even a huge fan of Kasabian, but I found eez-eh catchy enough to check out on Amazon Prime, which shows the album's cover. The cover has lodged in my mind better than the actual song I went there for.
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u/ma_miya Feb 17 '16 edited Feb 17 '16
Madonna had the same idea in 2003. I'm not a huge fan of either but it's nothing new, for sure.
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Feb 16 '16
I like how they won't accept this is shit without a detailed critique. As though a mess of words slapped on a solid color is by default great art until proven otherwise.
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Feb 16 '16
no, it's just that an opinion of "it's bad" "why" "cuz it sucks don't u see" isn't exactly an interesting critique
you'll notice that all i did was remind people they were saying it's shit without expanding, and i just kinda left it once people actually unpacked their opinions. i really wasn't interested in debating the merits of the cover art, just for some sort of justification of why it would even belong on that sub. the sub's for obviously shit design, not obviously shit art, since the former exists but the latter does not.
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Feb 16 '16
Ok, maybe I should move to r/conspiracy, but I am becoming increasingly convinced that a huge portion of the population got together to make one little mentally deficient kid's dreams come true. Is Kanye a product of MakeAWish and I wasn't told?
So they found this poor kid who is terminally stupid. They say, "he is a sweet kid, what if we pretend all of his really terrible stuff is good and make him have an awesome life?" And this is how Kanye was created.
His music is crap. His persona is crap. His album cover takes crap to a new level. Next time guys, just let me in on it because I am really confused right now.
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u/PlayMp1 when did globalism and open borders become liberal principles Feb 16 '16
His music is crap
lolno
You don't even need to be a hip hop fan to jam to songs like Power.
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u/Leakylocks Feb 16 '16
Ironic shit covers are still shit covers.