Sentence of the week. To me, the weakest part of Lambert’s album cover is the typeface used for his name. If he had used the “For Your Entertainment” font for his name, it would’ve worked better.

The Rihanna cover is sweet. Gritty indeed.

I’m still waiting for a new band to create a “name-icon” like Metallica, Def Leppard, etc. used to have.

Enjoyed hearing your thoughts.

1) Lambert’s cover is totally channeling long dormant 80′s Boy George radness, and it’s about time that someone stepped up to the plate.

2) Rhianna looks completely awesome on that album cover. You’re right about the Grace Jones, but I also see a little Joan Jett. There needs to be more women who can kick your ass in today’s music.

So really if I’m “offended” at all it’s purely as matter of my sense of good design having been offended and nothing to do with Adam Lambert or the music. My question is, is it *supposed* to look like bad photoshopping? Because that’s the impression I get, and I can kind of see that being a design decision, but if you’re constantly having to say, “no, no, it’s *on purpose*” then it seems there aren’t enough people in on the joke to make it a successful design decision. I think it’s not quite over the top *enough*.