A day after announcing the latest name for his upcoming album, Kanye West tweet out the cover for The Life of Pablo, and it’s… uh… well it’s interesting.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/697872225404325896
Kanye seems to be embracing his inner art major here, going with a design that kind of looks like it was created in a Microsoft Word doc but is probably really artistically powerful or something.
Kanye has always done goofy things with his album covers, from the anthropomorphic bear that recurs on his first three albums to the sexually explicit image on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to the ultimate minimalistic approach on Yeezus, but this one is something new.
A quick Twitter search suggests most people are pretty baffled by the Life of Pablo art, with mocking tweets mixed in with some defenses from the “never say a bad word about Yeezus our savior” crowd.
KAnye: North made the album cover while playing MS paint on my PC sorry guys
— avius (@avius__) February 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/weareshura/status/697877956274864128
Someone gotta go fix Kanye's printer. Yo, @Xerox, handle this? Thanks. pic.twitter.com/6gwoPlvbNh
— Sam White (@samwhiteout) February 11, 2016
Abundantly clear between album cover, Sharpie jacket, HXLT signing, etc., that Kanye has gone with "8th grade punk rocker" as new aesthetic.
— Jayson Greene (@Jayson_Greene) February 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/smpvt/status/697875838684045313
https://twitter.com/thatsDaniforyou/status/697879168164429824
https://twitter.com/AbrissErik/status/697879637318217728
https://twitter.com/mxlxsj/status/697877828117864448
The Life of Pablo is expected to be released some time Thursday.
Reasons to think it will be bad:
– It’s name was changed four times
– It is mysteriously named after someone named Pablo (Picasso? Escobar? Sanchez?)
– The cover is confusing
– Kanye seems to have lost his mind a little bit
Reasons to think it will be good:
– Kanye is always good
