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"Where's the drop?" is a thing that EDM frat bros said, what, like 35 years ago? At least it feels that long. The end result is something that somehow looks like both a Hallmark card and a Hallmark movie. The real problem is the design, which pairs grainy bokeh lights with an absolutely garish combination of stretched-out lower- and uppercase letters. Don't blame the photo, either - Weezy's cover conventions, which have portrayed him as a tattooed child, are well established by now, and the photo of his mom is sweet. While everyone else was making cartoon rap covers, Lil Wayne's long-awaited comeback album arrived in a decidedly corny package. Whatever the case, it was brave of a major label to sign off on this. It's hard to pinpoint where Krúbi crosses the line - maybe it's because of the garish mish-mash of oil paintings and stock art, or perhaps it's the half-eaten banana, or more likely the thick, murky pool of bodily fluid on the bedsheet. In the case of Krúbi, a rapper signed to Universal Music Hungary, the lines are a little too blurry. And that's without mentioning the DeviantArt CGI masks in the corner or the ill-advised text placement that makes it look like a bad poem: "Great the waves, lake the swimmers wake." Damn, that's actually profound.įrom child-like cartoons through deviations of standard mixtape art, there were plenty of rap covers that went to the end of good taste. When you've released as many albums as Toronto folk rock act Great Lake Swimmers, you're bound to accidentally release something that looks like a discontinued Fruitopia flavour, some bad tropical gum or an all-over print that you'd find on a pair of off-brand swim trunks in a department store basement. The designer did the screenshot version of when you used to pad your book report by opening it with the Webster's definitions of "book" and "report." It's quite literally the first result when you Google a definition of the phrase. Even if you ignore the fact that there's already a California rapper named Gift of Gab, this overused title, and its lazy screenshot cover, is still underserved. Joke's on you!īay Area legend E-40 deserves far better than this.
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Fortunately, here at Exclaim! we pride ourselves on our bravery so we're down to say it - this image is bad! Also, Thunderpussy, you might want to go back to anatomy school because those are not actually breasts but in fact a pair of lemons. What a stressful vibe.Īlbum covers like this one make outlandish choices on purpose, as if they're daring the viewer to admit the image is bad. With its corny, seafaring neon lights, tropical colours and what appears to be messy Christmas decorations, this album cover evokes a crowded stockroom at the back of an H&M menswear department on boxing day. You know the type: generic pop-rock with brief dalliances in "world music." It's the sort of album cover that one would use if they were an out-of-touch septuagenarian who wrote a sexed-up club jam called "Fuh You." Oh wait. Below, you'll find the best of the worst.Īnyone who's worked for a music magazine must have gotten PTSD when they first saw the cover for Paul McCartney's latest solo album - it looks exactly like every unsolicited promo CD mailed out in the history of time. That said, we had no trouble digging up dozens of nauseating album covers from the trenches of 2018. Whether it's Juice WRLD's child-like drawings or Earl Sweatshirt and Mark Kozelek's blurry cellphone pics, it's impossible to hate on bad art when it's being done on purpose.
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Simultaneously, however, you want an image that will work as a blown-up LP cover so that someone who doesn't even own a turntable will buy it and hang it up in their dorm room.Ĭomplicating matters further, the LP cover is, like so much other culture, currently in the last gasp of its ironic phase, where ugly art is harder to critique because it was done on purpose. The album cover has evolved to have two disparate functions - on the one hand, you need something that will stand out as a tiny icon in the "new releases" section of a streaming service.
#Newcleus jam on it album cover series#
Come back tomorrow (December 4) for the first in our series of Best of 2018 lists, the Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums of 2018, and check out last year's worst albums here. Published As the year comes to a close, we're kicking off our Year-in-Review coverage with our annual "Worst Album Covers" list below - enjoy.