Failure to communicate: fire your art director
2008.Apr.22. Tuesday - by lvhrdWeezer’s new album cover.
Never accentuate how much you don’t look like a younger, more talented, less irritating version of yourself, even if you’re trying to make some obscure Harvard Thesis Point about what makes a hit song.
I fail to understand how you could spend 3 years on an album and then go with an ironic cover.
credits: Weezer
Really......
This is not really the album cover: it's a statement ABOUT the album cover.
ALSO:
Weezer clearly owes royalties to Louis Joseph Comeau IV for shamelessly biting his style.
credits: Loujoe
Nothing but bling bling in your face, boy.
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Apr.22.2008 : 1:03 pm
oh come on. they’re obviously trying to invoke musician archetypes. They’re making fun of “image” for rockstars and popstars and country stars. did you really need that explained to you?
Apr.22.2008 : 1:11 pm
Weezer is the ultimate satire band…..
Apr.22.2008 : 1:15 pm
I don’t like humor in art. I do not understand it.
Apr.22.2008 : 1:53 pm
People still design album covers? Seems a bit superfluous.
Apr.22.2008 : 2:09 pm
It’s not code for “gay”, I’m confused too. Do you think that is a pillow in the cowboy’s shirt?