Twitter has feelings about how bad the new cover of Drake’s album is.
On Monday, Drake announced that his new album “Certified Lover Boy” will be released on September 3 in an Instagram post with his suspicious album cover by contemporary British artist Damien Hirst. Many fans expect the album’s supposed art to be just a teaser, however, as the grid of 12 multiracial pregnant women’s emojis with Hirst t-shirts in different colors is less than inspiring.
“Did you pay Damien Hirst to put 12 pregnant emojis as the album cover?” a disappointed spectator he asked of the Canadian rapper.
“Apparently, Drake charged Damien Hirst with this abomination,” he commented another.
Others tried to give the 34-year-old composer the edge of doubt and tried to read a deeper meaning of digital minimalist art.
Drake releases Certified Lover Boy, an album about love (raising babies) 9 months after the scheduled release date (9 months is a long-term pregnancy), the weekend of LABOR Day. when giving birth), that’s why there are pregnant emojis on the cover, ”a viral theory postulate.
Meanwhile, Android users were jokingly wondering if album art would show up differently per they.
Lil Nas X used the controversy as an opportunity to troll Drake, publication a teaser for his album “Montero” with a grilled pregnant emojis as album art. The NBA too jumped on board the wagon on the Drake trail, as he did Trevor Noah and “The Daily Show.”
While Katy Perry and Taylor Swift haven’t directly mocked the art, their fans have done so turned on His name.
The art publication Hyperallergic called the artwork an “enthusiastically self-referential homage to Hirst’s career” that simultaneously says “almost nothing about Drake’s music or his long-awaited album.”
The music news site The Fader said the art was “fun” and “ridiculous, but also very Drake.”
