‘Ugh!’ - Mariah Carey reacts to overly-Photoshopped You Don’t Know What To Do single cover
FOR months, fans have talked about the heavy use of Photoshopping on Mariah Carey’s latest album and single covers. Now the singer herself has expressed her disappointment.
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MARIAH Carey has publicly denounced the artwork for her latest single, joining a growing chorus of fans who see the airbrushed image as a Photoshop Too Far.
Much of the artwork Carey has released this year in support of her latest album, Me. I Am Mariah ... The Elusive Chanteuse, has presented the singer in an otherworldy, surreal (read: heavily Photoshopped) light.
But it seems the cartoonish artwork for her current single, You Don’t Know What To Do, took even Mariah by surprise.
“That definitely was NOT my selection for the cover ... ugh!” Carey tweeted this week when the artwork landed online.
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“Yes, I would love for you to send me your art for #YDKWTD (’cause at this point IDKWTD! lol).”
As many fans have pointed out, there can be no denying the picture is heavily Photoshopped — a side-by-side shows that Mariah’s face has simply been superimposed onto an existing picture of the singer:
Here is some of the other official artwork released by Team Mariah in recent months:
And here’s what the 45-year-old singer in real life earlier this month, looking more like an Actual Human Person and less like something you’d see airbrushed onto the side of a panel van holding a Chiko roll:
She looks stunning. Mariah, please: close Photoshop for a sec. Let your Adobe license expire. There’s no need for it!
Originally published as ‘Ugh!’ - Mariah Carey reacts to overly-Photoshopped You Don’t Know What To Do single cover