Michael Jackson-inspired 'Smooth Criminal' Art Print

Michael Jackson-inspired 'Smooth Criminal' Art PrintYou have to work hard not to like Michael Jackson's music, assuming you subscribe to 'death of the author' theory (which, as a good semiotician with a love of Roland Barthes, of course I do). But here's a true story: it was listening to Alien Ant Farm's fantastic cover of this song, waiting in line up for a Costco gas pump, that I realized I had to do a cover for this cover. The song is already set in the era of vintage retro pulp paperback covers, so

You have to work hard not to like Michael Jackson's music, assuming you subscribe to 'death of the author' theory (which, as a good semiotician with a love of Roland Barthes, of course I do). But here's a true story: it was listening to Alien Ant Farm's fantastic cover of this song, waiting in line-up for a Costco gas pump, that I realized I had to do a cover for this cover. The song is already set in the era of vintage retro pulp paperback covers, so finding a literal visualization of Annie and her blood stains wasn't hard.

If you're a fan of Michael Jackson and/or his music (or Alien Ant Farm, for that matter), or shopping with somebody like that in mind, then this is for you: offered in a wide range of options: 5 sizes across poster prints, framed ready-to-hang prints, and stretched canvas . . . as well as an IKEA Symfonisk Sonos speaker cover.