Doja Cat has a brand new album underway known as Scarlet, and the art work on the duvet appears to be like almost similar to the design on the duvet of German metallic band Chaver’s upcoming album Of Gloom.
To be truthful, each covers characteristic an illustration designed by artist Dusty Ray, in order that seemingly explains the similarities. The Scarlet cowl is white with a pink spider on it and a single drop of blood close to the highest, however no textual content. Of Gloom has a speckled cowl with a really, very comparable pink spider on it, in addition to a drop of blood, although the shapes of each the spider and the droplet are the slightest bit completely different than on Scarlet. Additionally, Chaver’s album has their brand on the highest of the duvet and the title on the underside in a lot smaller font.
So they’re nearly precisely alike… however not fairly. What makes the scenario even weirder is that each albums shall be launched the identical day — Sept. 22.
Doja Cat shared the album artwork on her Instagram profile yesterday (Aug. 29), and credited Dusty Ray because the artist in her Instagram story. Upon looking Dusty Ray’s Instagram profile, you’ll be able to see that there’s a lot of pink included all through the entire photographs on his feed that he illustrated. Many of them are additionally horror themed, with loads of blood and gore, completely different sorts of bugs and different animals.
Spiders appear to be a recurring theme as effectively. The precise spider and droplet that seems on the entrance of the upcoming Chaver album was first designed in 2018, in accordance to one in all Dusty Ray’s 2022 posts. Chaver first unveiled the duvet of their album on their Instagram on July 29. Chaver’s followers appear to be making mild of the scenario, making references to Doja Cat’s album on one in all their latest posts.
“Make a Doja shirt,” somebody wrote.
“Dusty got some ‘splainin’ to do,” one other individual commented.
See photographs of each albums beneath.
It’s unclear whether or not Doja Cat knew {that a} metallic band was utilizing one in all Dusty Ray’s spider illustrations for his or her cowl, however she has actually expressed an curiosity in heavy music over the previous couple of years. Earlier this yr in an interview, the musician stated that she desires to make punk music in some unspecified time in the future.
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“I feel like we have enough pop-punk artists right now. And if there needs to be more, then let there be more, but I don’t think I’m the one to do it,” she instructed Variety. “I want to explore more of a raw, unfiltered, hardcore punk sort of thing. It’s just something that I’m doing for my own personal fun — getting some drummers and guitarists together. And I don’t even know if that’s gonna make it out there.”
Additionally, in late 2020, the pop artist carried out a metallic remix of her hit track “Say So” on the MTV Europe Music Awards, which took a lot of her followers without warning.
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