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Recent "Cheap-Looking" CD Cover Art

What's with the cheap-looking cover art gracing some recent CD releases?

Miley Cyrus "Bangerz": Never mind the spelling error, it looks like it was made with little to no budget.

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Lady Gaga "Art Pop": Wow - this one is just a hot mess, and minus the "hot." She looks like a mannequin and there is way too much going on here to be appealing. More like "Art Poop."

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Robin Thicke "Blurred Lines": Looks like it was created in Photoshop or by a teenage art student.

Robin Thicke Blurred Lines Album Cover

Pet Shop Boys: "Electric": Sorry, but as much as I love PSB, this cover is a dud. There is nothing "electric" about it and you would think that former art school graduates would strive for better, especially with the new record label and rejuvenated sound.

Justin Timberlake: "20/20 Experience Part 2": Snore. It is a duplicate of the Part 1 artwork, hiding JT and reminding us how thrilling a trip to the eye doctor can be. "Which is better, A or B?" Neither.

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Kanye West: "Yeezus": Just phone it in, Kanye. Why even bother?

You would think that with the money these artists make, and the hype from their labels and fans, they would put forth more effort into creative and exciting cover art.

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Reply #1 posted 10/10/13 1:00pm

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FormerlyKnownAs said:

What's with the cheap-looking cover art gracing some recent CD releases?

I guess you don't remember the South Park Mexican/Lil Flip days. razz That 1st cover looks like 1980's type of artwork.

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Reply #2 posted 10/10/13 2:46pm

mynameisnotsus an	Yeah, Miley's is an obvious 80s homage and I'm pretty sure that is a Jeff Koons sculpture of Lady Gaga on her cover. I kinda like that one - it suits the title of the album.
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The 80s throwback vibe of the first one makes me realise the 80s revival has now dragged on longer than the decade itself lasted! And it was a notoriously dodgy decade, style-wise, in the first place! lol

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Reply #4 posted 10/10/13 4:33pm

SoulAlive	Maybe record companies have the attitude "nobody really buys CDs anymore anyway,so why spend a fortune on amazing artwork"
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Reply #5 posted 10/10/13 4:39pm

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mynameisnotsusan said:
Yeah, Miley's is an obvious 80s homage and I'm pretty sure that is a Jeff Koons sculpture of Lady Gaga on her cover. I kinda like that one - it suits the title of the album.

Believe it or not, I really like Miley's album cover. It's so 80s! Robin Thicke's album is the first one that came to mind when I saw the title of this thread. It's mad cheap looking. You might also want to include the Strokes album cover for Comedown Machine, which even boasts the running time of the album eek

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Reply #6 posted 10/10/13 4:49pm

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SoulAlive said:

Maybe record companies have the attitude "nobody really buys CDs anymore anyway,so why spend a fortune on amazing artwork"

But many album & singles covers in the past weren't anything special, long before CDs.

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Reply #7 posted 10/11/13 10:44am

namepeace	Prince has put on a bad cover art clinic for most of the last 15 years. Good night, sweet Prince \| 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016 Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Timmy84	Bad cover art is not a recent phenomenon.
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aardvark15	^^ bad albums with bad cover art aren't either
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Reply #10 posted 10/11/13 3:23pm

Timmy84	aardvark15 said: ^^ bad albums with bad cover art aren't either Plus if your album cover is gonna be a copy and paste job or look like it was made through Word Art or Lisa Frank, then that don't bode well for your album in general imho lol
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I like the Lady Gaga cover. It works for the concept of the album.

I think the Kanye West non cover works too. Minimalism is supposed to be the theme of the album so you can't get more minimal than no album cover. Very good.

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FormerlyKnownAs said:

Lady Gaga "Art Pop": Wow - this one is just a hot mess, and minus the "hot." She looks like a mannequin

She looks like a mannequin because it is a mannequin. It's a sculpture of Lady Gaga by Jeff Koons.

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