I remember the days when the cover art of an album was so influential as to advance the culture of the time in a significant way. I remember, as a kid, staring at album covers for hours while the music played. Then came CDs, and cover art had a decidedly diminished effect. Now with the advent of digital music, it is set to go the way of the dinosaurs. When you buy a song at the iTunes music store, they do give you a cover image that pops up whenever the song is played, but gone is its dynamic flourish, the way it seemed to cast a color on the music itself. Here’s a decidedly unaggressive approach to the art for Madonna’s next single, “Nothing Fails”, which with its text decoration feels designed for a Nice Collective T-shirt. The artwork feels like an afterthought, with its tacked-on still from the GAP Commercial. By the way, they’ve dropped the Love Profusion mixes from this single. The rest of the tracks seem to be intact.
