Three days ago I posted my redesign of Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department because I thought her original album cover was so ugly. Here’s my fan-made album cover:
And look at what Taylor Nation (Taylor Swift’s official management team) posted yesterday!
This alt cover is for the physical CD release of the album, featuring an exclusive bonus track “But Daddy I Love Him (Acoustic Version).”
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You can see a side-by-side comparison of the official alt album cover and mine above. Funnily enough, the cropping of my version would’ve been closer to hers (by moving the image up a little more), but I was trying to copy the format of all of her official variants, all of which had empty space above her head.
Obviously Taylor Swift and her team didn’t steal my idea, but what a coincidence—the timing of it all! I’m wondering if she’ll release another alt cover similar to this variant one I made: