Charli XCX Brat
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nol
June 9th 2024


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Brat's cover artwork and packaging was designed by New York City-based studio Special Offer, Inc.[20] The cover, a low resolution lime green square with the title disproportionately imposed on it, was met with criticism. In a cover story interview for Vogue Singapore, she told Chandreyee Ray that the criticism led her to question why fans feel "ownership over female artists" so much so that they demand their photograph be on all of their work; she had previously dubbed it "mysoginistic [sic] and boring" on Twitter. She further explained the album cover and particularly the colour choice, deeming green heavily oversaturated in the media and fashion "as of late": "I wanted to go with an offensive, off-trend shade of green to trigger the idea of something being wrong. I'd like for us to question our expectations of pop culture—why are some things considered good and acceptable, and some things deemed bad? I'm interested in the narratives behind that and I want to provoke people. I'm not doing things to be nice."


Trebor.
Emeritus
June 9th 2024


60329 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Artists will come up with whatever bullshit instead of just making good artwork

nol
June 9th 2024


12280 Comments


aka it’s a statement

nol
June 9th 2024


12280 Comments


9/10 times when an artist makes a statement piece they are stating that they are a conceited douchebag

Tundra
June 9th 2024


10741 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

This sound is just not revolutionary anymore.. just more good bops from charli, that's about it

Gyromania
Contributing Reviewer
June 9th 2024


38352 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Treb gets it

rabidfish
June 9th 2024


9005 Comments


@nol lmao typical trashy rhethoric, i fucking hate it.
it's just an ugly boring cover art. It happens to the best (Bowie's "reality", infamous example). It's ok, there's no need to make it a hill to die on.

JohnnyoftheWell
June 9th 2024


64287 Comments


anyone who had to read that interview quote to understand the artwork deserved something uglier

Lord(e)Po)))ts
June 9th 2024


70256 Comments


nol do you think if you parents ever once showed you so much of a modicum of affection you wouldn’t get so bent out of shape whenever anyone other than yourself gets any attention?

Lord(e)Po)))ts
June 9th 2024


70256 Comments


have you chewed on that yet bud

nol
June 9th 2024


12280 Comments


avast ye oh daemon

nol
June 9th 2024


12280 Comments


In the words of the great Sméagol of LOTR fame “Leave now, and never come Back-ack-ack-ack!”

JayEnder
June 9th 2024


22714 Comments


Artists will come up with whatever bullshit instead of just making good artwork [2]

AlexKzillion
Emeritus
June 10th 2024


19057 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

i think the brat artwork is a fine statement by an artist who was bordering on full frontal nudity on their previous three album covers and operates in a niche of music where that's been essentially the standard for what album artwork should be



album art is all just marketing at its most basic level and you are just not gonna miss that revolting lime green scrolling through spotify + its generated more discussion than any cover art i've seen this year.



i think that's far more valuable to the d i s c o u r s e than say... charli putting her tits on the hifn cover and the entire straight male part of her base (including our very own 99% male userbase) quietly enjoying while also not commenting on it at all out of fear of being called a perv, and then totally copping the vinyl "for the music bro".

Winesburgohio
Emeritus
June 10th 2024


4188 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

bordering on full frontal nudity

Sinternet
Emeritus
June 10th 2024


26909 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

stunning how in a thread that universally (and rightfully) glazes this album we have to suffer such terrible takes so consistently

rabidfish
June 10th 2024


9005 Comments


@alex bro wtf are you talking about. Stfu.

Asdfp277
June 10th 2024


25673 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

i don't think charli rejects nor regrets her previous cover artwork tbh imo, but still, as she stated (?, she's not obliged to give us a photo of her

Asdfp277
June 10th 2024


25673 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"i think that's far more valuable to the d i s c o u r s e than say... charli putting her tits on the hifn cover and the entire straight male part of her base (including our very own 99% male userbase) quietly enjoying while also not commenting on it at all out of fear of being called a perv, and then totally copping the vinyl 'for the music bro'."



ok but how big is the straight male faction of her fanbase, and who would buy a vinyl just to fap to the cover artwork lmao

Winesburgohio
Emeritus
June 10th 2024


4188 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

probably (rightly) going to b pilloried but every time 365 begins i keep expected bladee's voice to come in and it gives me a jolt when i hear charli's



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