I’ll admit this has something to do with just being our friend Toby Keith and all the special kind of that’s-daddy’s-drunken-redneck-boot-in-your-freedom-hating-ass fun being Toby Keith entails. But the sheer laziness of this cover is about as hateable as any red, white, and blue rhetoric that’s ever spilled out of Toby’s sphincter-lookin’ face. A Toby Keith Christmas album? Let’s get a pre-existing promo photo of Toby and just Photoshop a Santa hat on top of his cowboy hat. And we’ll throw some clip art snowflakes in the background to signify “winter,” even though he’s wearing an outfit that otherwise suggests he is actually at Senor Frog’s. I know one art director that’s getting a lump of coal this year.
I wish he was showing a little more chest.
It looks like an old school senior picture. Next pose is him leaning against a white picket fence.
I love how your image tag is “tobydouchebag” — couldn’t have put it better myself!
I’m with Jess; I think this just became a front-runner for its sheer laziness.
The upturned brim of the cowboy hat almost suggests pointy elf ears, but that could be my Friday afternoon bourbon talking.
This is worse than the Fred Claus trailer.
@Ted Striker: I’ve only been drinking wine
coolers (and maybe a Zima or two), so I can give sober confirmation to
the cowboy hat/elf ear theory.
@Ted Striker: @Bob Loblaw: I thought the same thing and I am stone cold sober.
Someone in the design deparment must have a subscription to iStock for those sweet illustrations.
As for the ear/hat theory, when I looked at the thumbnail on the main site I thought they were elf ears. And I’m just hopped up on caffine.
It looks like an Old Navy ad.
This solves the issue of what I will be dressing as for halloween this year……..
I see the war on christmas started early this year.
Looks like Shlock ‘n Y’all.