A Tale of Terrible Artwork

Oh lord. Cheryl. Cheryl's team. Whoever keeps signing off on Cheryl's artwork at Cheryl's label.

You know when decades have past and fads have come and gone and boring, lowest-common-denominator, derivative, lets-make-cash-not-art commercial pop has had a chance to go stale and mouldy. And you go on a bygone chartpop artist's wiki page and you scroll down and look at their discography filled with songs that - let's be real now - only a handful of deluded fans more in love with the memory of the artist than their actual 'music' are still listening to. And you look at the CD cover art and you guffaw at how bad it is and you think "How did that ever get approved? Did people at the time just have lower(/different) aesthetic standards?"

Well no, no they did not. When that forgettable, quick cash-in, boring, tacky CD was released, the artwork seemed just as hideous at the time.

Fortunately that artwork was truthful as it both described and depicted 90% of the music contained therein.