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Why Cover Art Still Carries Weight
Cover arts have been a legitimate creative medium in their own right since the LP era. For decades, they have done more than simply package music. They have…
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Longer arguments about how sleeves get made, and why they look the way they do.
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The problem isn't that AI makes bad cover art.
Cover art is filed under the musician’s name almost everywhere. The people who made it get a line of small type, if they get anything at all.
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The Cover That Said It All: Burna Boy's I Told Them...
Released in 2023, I Told Them... was Burna Boy’s declaration that everything unfolding in his career was something he had always believed would happen. The…