Use your brain, appreciate art, don't steal what you don't deserve …

This is some buuuullshit …

In creative communities, ideas, topics, tones, imagery — these things tend to overlap quite a bit. There are millions of artists making things out there, it's bound to happen. Law of numbers, right? But when the high-selling music realm is packed with only a few worthy "artists" that get promoted and shoveled into our daily lives en masse, it's hard to miss something that you probably shouldn't blatantly rip off, you know, like an iconic album cover.

When Zayn Malik announced his new album and released the artwork, a few people online took note of the obvious "similarities" to Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III — but there wasn't much "outrage," as the Internet tends to breed when someone steps out of line. None.

Chalk it up to his suburban-bred 12-year-old fans not knowing anything about Lil Wayne, sure, but dude doesn't even apologize or even really address the situation:

What's worse: Hundreds of thousands of people agree with him, sharing, re-tweeting, liking — what in the fuck? Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams get taken to court for "Blurred Lines" and lose a plagiarism case because the judge thinks the two songs in question "feel alike." Great, case closed. But Zayn's album cover is a blatant rip-off, obvious style jack … and crickets. Maybe we're alone in thinking so, but this exactly what's wrong with manufactured pop. There's no substance, independent thought or reflective self-awareness.

Use your brain, appreciate art, don't steal what you don't deserve …