Envelope Distort Issues

[BeckySweet]

When I try to envelope distort, this happens:

So it all looks like a jumbled mess - any ideas why? The object was in front of the text.

[Doug A Roberts]

Interesting. Something about that shape causes an unholy spiral of mesh points on top of each other:

Looks like a metal band logo.

[BeckySweet]

Haha, it does! Hmm, maybe it's the shape then, thank you.

[kphotopage]

Double post

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/how-do-i-make-this-smoother/td-p/12857134