People are ripping Taylor Swift's album cover for its bad graphic design

Haters gonna hate.
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Brian Koerber
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Taylor Swift unveiled her upcoming album name, release date, and cover art on Wednesday, sending Swift fans into a frenzy. While some are anxiously awaiting the Thursday debut of her first single, others are less than pleased with the design of Swift's album cover.

Before hearing even a single note of Swift's new album, people have already started trashing the black and white album cover, which features multiple layers of text rendered in different fonts and varying opacity, all displaying the artist's name.

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Some were reminded of the Myspace era:

One person compared it to a promo for a true crime documentary:

But overall, people were just upset with the graphic design choice:

Haters gonna hate.

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Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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