The front cover for Nirvana's Nevermind album is of a baby swimming towards a dollar bill on a fishing hook. This is a metaphor for people's greed for money and that it is human nature to chase money and the image of a baby trying to catch the money implies that it is instinct. The original idea for the cover came from lead singer Kurt Cobain after watching a television program on water birth. The record label were worried that about the picture of a nude baby and wanted to change the image. Defending the picture Cobain replied with a statement that the only compromise he would take for the photo would be a sticker covering the baby's penis saying, "If you are offended by this, you must be a closet paedophile." The water theme is continued throughout the whole cover using blue and white throughout. This also supports Richard Dyers theory of stardom as by the artist being adamant on their ideas about how their image should be presented.
The back cover stays in theme with the rest of the digipak with the water theme.
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