CD Cover Research

This is an album cover by the band D12. It shows a hand holding a tight grip on the globe. This could represent that D12 want to be known worldwide and that they think they have a grip on the world. This sort of picture shows them with status and power. The hand holding the world has a ring with D12 to show the hand holding the world is 'D12's hand, and that its D12 holding the hand. The dark colours in the background and the stars are bright which could represent that D12 are stars. The title D12 World shows that D12 are trying to dominate the world rather than just one country with their music. The font style used looks like the style of tattoo writing or graffiti style writing which fits in with the genre of Hip Hop well as they often have lots of tattoos. The hand holding up the world is of a darker skinned origin which is very common within Hip-Hop and Rap music as it is predominantly black artists such as the band D12, and Tinie Tempah below.

This is a similar album cover to the D12 album cover as it shows the artist Tinie Tempah holding what looks like one city in his arms. He is infact holding lots of different parts of differnent cities all mixed together. This also shows that he has control over lots of different cities and places all over the world. He has a wristband and a big watch on which is very common jewelery of this genre of music as they like to wear 'Bling' to show off that they have a lot of money and can buy large bits of jewellery. The font of the writing on the Album Cover is stereotypical of this artist as it is the font that he uses on most of his albums. He is also wearing a pari of sunglasses which makes him look mysterious and because you cannot see his eyes you dont know what esxpression he has, this makes the album cover intriguing and a member of the public would want to pick it up and look at it. The lighting in this photo is focused on the artist to show that he is the main feature of the cover and he is most important. The light looks glittery and as if it is shimmering, this makes him look like a star and gives him a higher status as it looks like he is rich.

This album cover is different to the other two covers that i have analysed. The artist/rapper Eminem is situated in the middle of the cover but is smaller. He is appearing to bow down infront of an audience on stage, this could be at one of his shows. The word 'ENCORE' is written is his sigtnature writing which is with the 'E' backwards. The brand Eminem is always written with one of the E's backwards aswell, this helps to brand him as an artist and makes him different to other artists. There are two lights shining onto Eminem and he is the brightest part of the album cover which means anyone looking at the album cover, thier eyes are immediately drawn to him and what hes doing. He is breaking the norm of looking extrememly powerful and covered in 'bling' as he is wearing a smart suit and is bowing down appearing to thank his audience. This shows a nicer side to him, and makes him look like a nice artist who respects his audience and his fans rather than it just being about looking powerful and having money. By breaking that stereotype it makes him more appealing to a wider audience.