Analysing album covers and websites

The artist’s name and album title is in capital letters, which make it more striking.

The artist looks directly at the camera to make the viewer feel as if Florrie is looking at them. This creates a connection between the artist and the viewer.

Florrie’s trousers are baggy and disco- like. However, on closer inspection the viewer notices the lip prints on her trousers with different colour lipsticks capturing her very unique, daring and funky style, which promotes her star image.

Florrie’s positioning resembles that of a fashion photo shoot pose and thus captures her glamorous side, which makes her appealing to female and male viewers.

The Front page of the website reads very much like a blog, where Florrie notes her experiences and posts regular updates about her musical career. This personal style adopted my Florrie makes the viewer closer to the artist and allows them to get up to date with her latest news.

The background is a neutral colour making the L shape look more striking to the audience. Additionally, it is typical for album covers to have a plain background, in order to have more focus on the artist.

The album cover highlights Lily Allen’s laid back nature for she is casually lying down on the life sized letter with her eyes shut. This contrasts many albums from pop artists which have a heavy focus on aesthetic appearance and a lot of the times have the artist facing the camera, alluring the audience in. The fact that Lily Allen is facing away from the camera shows how she is minding her own business and is in a natural state.

The big L shape stands for Lily Allen herself and so promotes her as an artist. The fact that the frontal part of the shape is black and right in the middle of the album cover makes it stand out for the audience.

Her long elegant pink dress resembles a ball gown and represents her femininity. The fascinator on the top of her head shows her uniqueness and sense of style.

The long shot of Lily Allen creates a physical distance between the audience and the artist, showing that she is in her own world. It can also indicate that she is independent.

The fact that she doesn’t look like she is trying too hard to allure an audience in a sense promotes the artist.

Lily Allen’s name is shown in black bold letters, in contrast to her album title, ‘it’s not me it’s you’ which is in italics.

The harsh typography of her name and the softness of the title make the titles stand out against each other.

The option to sign up to the newsletter ensures that fans are updated with Lily Allen’s latest albums and musical career. This maintains a close bond between the audience and the artist. If the audience have the opportunity to sign up for the newsletter, it makes it more likely that they would buy Lily Allen’s new album.

The option to buy Lily Allen’s albums online makes her music more accessible.

When pressing the ‘Listen’ option, it goes onto a page displaying all of Lily Allen’s albums up to date, showing all her work during her musical career. This allows new people to get a sense of Lily Allen’s style of music.

Like many websites Lily Allen gives her Fans the option of Following her.

Potential features of an artist’s website • An option to follow the artist• Biography• Videos• Photos • Albums • Shop• Events • News • Tour • Blog• Alongside pictures of the artist as the background to promote

their star image.