In keeping with the novelty feel of the song, and its viral like sound, the single cover must reflect a playful feeling.
An album cover which I think plays on this idea of flirty fun is the cover of Divine's Greatest Hits. it is a play on the work of Andy Warhol who's prints were created to mimic the simple way in which celebrity can be created through simple representation. Elaborating on this with Divine's iconic image as a drag queen this album cover almost parodies the images of The Queen, Marylin Monroe and Jackie Kennedy as strong women and attributes their iconic status, power and femininity onto that of the masculine Divine.
This representation of Divine as a symbol of womanhood and 'girl power' is part of the 'Queer' factor of his appeal. Dragging this into practical use it would be brilliant for me to take an iconic image of femininity or an image with connotations of breasts and adapt the color pallet to produce an Andy Warhol like effect.
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