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Mims' Label Might Want To Find Less Litigious Sources For Its Clip Art

German fans have to find another place to buy Mims' hit album Music Is My Savior in light of a new lawsuit filed by popular German rapper Bushido over the artwork on the album cover.

According to reports, the suit stems from a similarity between a silhouette of Bushido from the cover of the rapper's Deutschland Gib Mir Ein Mic CD/DVD and the "I" in the logo for Mims' name on the cover of Music Is My Savior.
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6:15 PM on Fri May 4 2007
By mjohnston
2,004 views, 2 comments

Latest by Trackback: Shawn Mims attracted more than his fair share of haters earlier this year with his brain-meltingly repetitive single “This Is Why I’m Hot.” (He also nabbed the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100, so don’t feel too bad for more »

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"The Ugliest Album Cover Of The Year" Race: We're Going To Need A Big Eraser For This One

Presented for your approval: The cover of Erasure's upcoming Light At The End Of The World. Is it a new solar system? An American Idol bumper graphic? Or did Jeff Lynne just get a new vanity license plate? More »

1:20 PM on Fri Apr 27 2007
By Brian Raftery
555 views, 15 comments

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The Ugliest Album Cover Of The Year Race: Björk Has An Umlaut Of Explaining To Do

We thought the competition would dry up after Canibus' contribution last week, but Björk tops that with this weird entry, in which she places an Elvis wig on "Ugliest Album Cover Of The Year" competitor Joss Stone and sets her on fire.

2:55 PM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By Brian Raftery
3,857 views, 25 comments

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The Race For "Ugliest Album Cover Of The Year" Is Heating Up

Many thanks to Nah Right for pointing us in the direction of Canibus' For Whom The Beat Tolls, a perfectly horrific candidate in our competition for the ugliest album cover of the year. With recent high-profiles uglies from the likes of Joss Stone, Ted Leo, and Fall Out Boy, this is shaping up to be the best bad year ever! Keep the nominees coming!

1:15 PM on Fri Mar 16 2007
By Brian Raftery
4,204 views, 19 comments

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The Race For "Ugliest Album Cover Of The Year" Is Off With A Bang

The next time someone complains about how the digital-music age has all but destroyed the album cover, kindly point them in the direction of these artistic atrocities, which appear to have been the inevitable result of Photoshopping while hot-knifing. If you've seen some album-art disasters recently, drop us a line at .

12:04 PM on Mon Feb 5 2007
By Brian Raftery
2,337 views, 8 comments

Latest by deusdiabolus: You would think with all the clever and often flawless Photoshop work being turned in at places like Worth1000 and SomethingAwful, these labels would have realized that they could very easily go and hire someone who could turn in something more »

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Remembering A Time When Snoop Dogg Was Intentionally Cartoonish

Format magazine examines some of the most famous comic book-inspired hip-hop album covers, including Outkast's ATliens, MF Doom's Operation: Doomsday, and, of course, Snoop's infamous Doggystyle:

Snoop (and Dre) jack [Parliament's] beats, then get Snoop's cousin, or whoever "drew" it, to "bless" his debut's cover. But wait, there's more! The liner notes feature a comic by the cover-artist, which is also awful, but somehow endearing. And the comic introduced me to the term "hocus pocus," meaning weed-bullshit. It has far greater meaning and usage, though. Say you're running late for work and the bus pulls away as you reach the door. That's hocus pocus, nawimean?
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1:25 PM on Mon Jan 15 2007
By Brian Raftery
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Mopey British Singer Figures Out Foolproof Way To Make Money Off Record Sales

Abigail Houldsworth, perhaps realizing that her dirgey cover of Radiohead's "Creep" won't exactly bring in the cash, has come up with an alternate way of realizing revenue from her music: More »

8:52 AM on Mon Nov 27 2006
By mjohnston
225 views, 1 comment

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The Most Unsettling Album Cover Of The Year: A Candidate Emerges

Last week, we showed you the craptastic artwork for Winger IV, which is currently leading the pack for the coveted "Worst Album Cover Of '06" Title. Today, we came across a cover that also reaches the Winger IV heights, although it's not necessarily bad so much as it is ... well, it's very weird. More »

3:04 PM on Mon Nov 13 2006
By mjohnston
471 views, 5 comments

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The Ugliest Album Cover Of The Year: We May Have A Winner

We haven't seen a great bad album cover in a while, but we've finally spotted one that's so terrible, so wrought with lousy art and stinky metaphor, that it might just wrest the "worst packaging of '06" title from the Sleepy Jackson's Matthew Barney-gone-wrong sleeve for Personality (One Was A Spider One Was A Bird). More »

3:29 PM on Fri Nov 10 2006
By mjohnston
1,213 views, 14 comments

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Idolator's Guide To Completely NSFW Album Art

The news that Ice-T was getting a little help from his well-endowed wife on the cover of his new album got us thinking about scandalous album covers of years past (we still have both covers of Ritual de lo Habitual). With the help of the listers at RateYourMusic, we've compiled a guide to our favorite—and least favorite—NSFW album covers. After the jump, we look back on front-cover nudity through the years. More »

12:10 PM on Wed Oct 18 2006
By mjohnston
8,888 views, 13 comments

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The Ugliest Album Cover Of The Year: The Race Begins

We love the oft-forwarded Museum of Bad Album Covers, but the site's archives tend to focus on old-school schlock from the vinyl era. So, in an attempt to support today's marginally talented graphic designers, Idolator is happy to announce its first annual Ugliest Album Cover of the Year awards. We'll be periodically updating the site with the most god-awful new releases we can find—and we'll be leaning on you guys for suggestions. At the end of the year, we'll award the winner with a copy of Smell the Glove. More »

9:34 AM on Tue Jun 27 2006
By Brian Raftery
98 views, Comment