Michael Jackson-inspired 'Smooth Criminal' Art Print Fishing The eponymous track for Matthew

The eponymous track for Matthew Good's first solo album

unforgettable song with a soaring chorus and a chord progression that smacks your heart still - all within the snarl of 90s alt rock guitar waves

I wanted to capture the teenage angst of the song and the movie in which it featured

retro pulp paperbacks

was bang-on

Michael Jackson-inspired 'Smooth Criminal' Art Print Fishing The eponymous track for MatthewYou 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