Analysing A CD Cover (Lily Allen)

Analysing/Planning The Front Of A CD Cover (Lily Allen)

The Front of the CD cover has a central image, the artist’s name and album or single name printed.

Central image

Artist’s name

Single’s name

The lettering fits in with the genre of music, which is electro-pop, as the name of the artist, ‘Lily Allen’ is placed in a shape like a lightning bolt. This Front cover is similar to the front cover of the Kesha CD cover I have analysed, because both of the artist’s names on the front covers give off a electrifying effect. In addition, the artist’s name and the single’s name are in the same colours (black) with a white background. This may have been put in place so it would easily be identified on a shelf in a record label shop to Lily Allen’s target audience.

The image that is on the front cover of the CD is an photograph of Lily Allen. Her hair is done up in a teenage hairstyle, and she is dressed in a top that has ‘smile’ written all over it along with smiley faces present. This top related back to the name of her single that she is promoting, which is ‘smile’. She is wearing red lipstick and black eyeliner, which is in place to make her look attractive. The This tells us that the artist is illustrating herself as a typical electro-pop artist and she is a successful one.

Artist’s name

Lightning bolt shape

Teenage hairstyle

‘Smile’ printed on her top

Red lipstick

Black eyeliner

This is an image that you would expect to see for the artist, and it is effective, because she would catch the males’ attention by looking pretty, and she would also be seen as a female role model to an extent to females.

The artist is represented as attractive. The social group of ‘young people’ is represented by her looking like a young typical teenage female.

Females may purchase this CD as they see her as a pretty female role model. As this song is based around a couple, teenagers in a relationship may be more prone to buy this single. Males may also be interested in this CD as they find Lily Allen hot to some extent.

Analysing The Back Of A CD Cover(Lily Allen)

It has the name of the single/album, list of publishers and producers, music label written, her official website and social networks on where her music is shared.The lettering fits in with the genre of music, which is electro-pop, as the name of the artist, ‘Lily Allen’ is placed on the top of a shape like a lightning bolt.

Name of the single

Official website

Music labels

List of publishers and producers