So what do you think ??

She copied Leona Lewis. What could u expect from someone like her...

I thought it was a Jim morrison rip.

Alicia looks lovely.

Wost. Font. EVER!!!

Somebody posted this a while back - both the font & picture blow. This photo is too close & up the nose, the hair is very 70's. I just don't get it, maybe it's some kinda theme they're going after here but me no likey

Love the 70s look of the photo. There's too much going on in the font though. Maybe the designer thought the photo needs help. It doesn't.

CalhounSq said:

sextonseven said:

The B&W pic...the hair...the crazy font...it's definitely a 70's vibe that she's trying to portray.

I like it.

2 bad she can't perform as good as she looks.

Graycap23 said:

After listening to clips of the album, the cover fits a lot of the music. I just hope the album doesn't let me down.

PurpleJedi said:

lol.....it is true and u know it.

I like it a lot.

Profoundly retro, without being too apparently pseudo-retro like most stuff today. Of course there is always the danger of the whole thing becoming overtly simplistic and cheap-looking in the end when it's placed on the store shelf. So it would probably work far better as an LP cover than as a typical CD jewelcase release.

But anyway. She looks beautiful, and it's not sexist. That's quite an accomplishment after the horrible standards for album cover aesthetics of the early part of this decade.

sosgemini said:

I guess you forgot about


I swear, it seems like people are letting first-day photoshop users design their covers these days. Are they having design-a-cover contests in Elementary schools these days and then the loser becomes the winner?

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People are paying WAY too much attention to covers these days. If a cover makes someone buy or not buy or your album I would rather NOT have that person buying my record. This cover is simple,to the point,whatever. Lets be real in a few years when CD's are gone its not going to matter what a cover is anyway.

BlaqueKnight said:

Uh uh, this takes the cake and the goddamn recipe



Even the background coloring effect looks like its done from a cheap ass photoshop software,,,like its home-made

BTW I love the late 70s theme of Alicia's album

sosgemini said:

Agreed. I don't mind the pic, it's whatever. But, that font blows just like Chaka's. And Chaka is my girl.

Harlepolis said:

truts me Britney's Spears' album cover for her new cd is THEE WORST ever! Check that shit out and you tell me....

banks said:

Jennifer Beals has entered the building yall!

I think she meant this as a nostalgia thing.

For Alicia Keys fans: It's a great album cover to... .

Three suggestions for improvement:

1. Remove the "Alicia Keys" completely.
2. Have the "As I Am" text in her writing.
3. Improve the pic. Keep the same general idea, but improve the pic.

dancerella said:

Here it goes

lastdecember said:

Totally agree. It's not a make or break deal for me.

The cover is nice though.

sosgemini said:

I agree. It is so hard 2 read.

BlaqueKnight said:

This has to be Prince's worst album cover. I liked the book inside, but the cover is HORRIBLE.

Scorpion said:

Yeah its to the point, mainly because its black and white, no one realizes that color photos are the worst thing to do, mainly because all covers are photoshopped so that costs $$$ with black and white there isnt much altering you can do, as far as the font, does it really matter? The funny thing the albums mentioned in this thread as being "bad covers" are all strong albums by the artists, maybe everyone should do simple covers.

lastdecember said:

Britney's album is probably her worst

VoicesCarry said:

Sorry have to disagree to me its almost her best, In The Zone still is probably that, i didnt really like her first 3 that much at all, though catchy, nothing really there.