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OBSESSED: the artwork

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HVXLII
Feb 19, 2026
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Last year, on the day I got married, I put out a song called “OBSESSED,” that’s a very cute, very fun, and very gay love song. And along with it came some album art that looks like it came straight out of someone’s diary…which is because it did.

Photo of the original collage

It was, like most things around here, a near 11th hour decision that came after some chatting with Amoré (from thishellwithyou.) about not being sure what to do for the album art. They pitched the idea of doing this sort of…candid photo collage/future Mr. HVXLII vision board type thing, that had this not been photos of the person I had been with for nearly 9 years at the time, could be considered concerning for a 32-year old man to make. But considering all the context around the song, it’s release date, and who the subject of the photos was…it all came together in a perfectly chaotic way.

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