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Kanye West's new album cover too sexy for Wal-Mart
By Brian FairbanksOctober 18th, 2010, 2:10 pmComments (5)
In what came as a surprise to absolutely no one except for Kanye West himself, the hiphop star's new album has been banned from Wal-Mart until he can replace its sexy album cover. The Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy CD will feature a small drawing of what appears to be a madly-grinning black man being mounted by an armless white lady who has wings and a tail, which is an inappropriate dark twisted fantasy, or so Wal-Mart would have us believe.
West begs to differ:
"Yoooo they banned my album cover!!!!! Ima tweet in a few...
"Banned in the USA!!! They don't want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix!
"In the 70s album covers had actual nudity…It's so funny that people forget that…Everything has been so commercialized now. I know that cover just blew yall minds…I wish yall could see how hard I'm smiling right now!!!
"In all honesty…I really don't be thinking about Walmart when I make my music or album covers #kanyeshrug! I wanna sell albums but not at the expense of my true creativity." [Kanye West's Twitter, via E! Online]
What do you mean, "in the 70s," dude? Haven't you seen the original Is This It album cover? Oh, right... that was banned in America too.
Commentarium (5 Comments)
Reminds me of when Nas' album had to go untitled, after it was originally called Ni**er. If Kanye had changed one letter in his song "Golddigger", everything would have been different. I'm waiting for someone to release an album called "Fuck Them Corporate Motherfuckers", with the cover featuring a urine-soaked crucifix with elephant dung on it, balanced on the back of a black man getting busy with a white woman, with a picture of Al Jolson masturbating on an image of Aunt Jemimah in the background. I don't like it's chances.
"banned in America"? Isn't Wal-Mart just a department store? Or does it speak for America now? Or did Kanye mean it as a metaphor for America? Or is he just an illiterate moron? So many questions...
Wal-Mart is America's CD store, so yes, that makes album sales a little difficult:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10581185/itunes-wal-mart-dominate-music-s...
Oh for Christ's sake, slap a sicker on the cellophane to cover the Al Jolson blackface and let it go out the door. Once it gets home, the actual cover will be good to go.
Walmart always does stuff like that. I like the cover though!
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