Designers were to illustrate a song in a particular style. I chose “Walking on Sunshine,” by Katrina and The Waves, in the style of “airbrush surrealism.”
I hate the song.
I lived through it, back in 1985.
To their credit, the band disliked the song too. By their words, they were a “a second-on-the-bill-at-a-festival-in-Germany” pop band, but they had this song.
At any rate, as I see it, this is the Last Man; a post-apocalyptic vision of an exile from a future civilization, who finds, at his lowest ebb, with everything gone and destroyed, that he can walk in the inferno of a raging star. Literally, walking on sunshine.
To me — and as a counter-point to finger-snapping, upbeat, lockstep optimism — the digging up of this song from ancient history to accompany the destruction of humanity would represent infinite pathos, which is our best defense when kneeling before fate.