I'd like to ask to change certain artist's album cover

[bokos4477]

Hi, I'm Hyunwoo Chung and I'm from South Korea. I don't know this community is right place to bring this discussion, but I want to point out the issue with certain artist's album cover. It's J Dilla's album, called 'Jay Love Japan'. Long story short, the visual art of this album cover is based on 'Rising Sun Flag’, which was the flag of the Japanese navy during World War two. To explain what it exactly is, I will attach two links that you can see the details about it. You might understand the controversy related to this flag and why I am sending this sort of claim message to you.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-07-23/japan-rising-sun-olympic-flag-provokes-anger

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50285383

I know it is pretty hard to change or cancel artist's artwork because it is their own creation and you have to respect it. (Especially when the artist passed away) However, this flag is controversial globally and it can definitely provoke trauma and pain.

I'm asking you to remove this album on Spotify service or change the album cover to the other one which is not controversial. Knowing this album is also on YouTube music, I will ask them same thing. I'm looking forward to hearing from you about this issue and please let me know if there is other route for this kind of request. Thanks for reading.