Album cover research

Album cover research: 

Below you can see Taylor swifts most recent album cover, called 1989 which was released in 2014. I chose to look at this specific album cover, because her genre of music is similar to ours and what we have chosen. As you can see the album cover appears vintage by use of a polaroid camera photography, showing a vintage off colour look also. You can then see half of the artists face showing a sense of mystery, however the red lipstick  adds an old fashion sense which was in the late 80's and early 90's the colour red also has connotation as a rebellious young adult. Which can then also be appealing to male audiences. The album cover also has her entails on it 'T.S' For Taylor Swift and the 'D.L.X' is for Deluxe edition of the album.  You can see from both the front cover and back colour, they have kept the original colours.

Below you can now see the 1975's album cover, their music genre is slightly different however they are an independent band. Who are similar to our artist. As you can see their album cover is two colours which is still effective, because again this is used to represent the band as their music videos are in black and white. The band name 'The 1975' is seen in light, the font used on the bands name is edgy as it stands out and is almost the brightest part of the image. 

Below you can see Jessie J's album cover. As you can see she is the main focus of the album cover as you can see her face in a close up, you then see the use of colours, such as black it stands out against the back ground and shows a rebellious dark side of her. The title of her album is not clear but you can see her name in a golden font colour, which gives connotations as being 'Chav' or streetwise. This album is made to make the artist appear a specific way which a dominant female. This is portrayed by the use of dark colours. However the album cover has a much