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Bryony Sheffield
Bryony Sheffield

This album cover for Arctic Monkeys' album "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" features a close-up image of a man smoking. The smoking image suggests the band is not afraid to be controversial and helps create a grungy, rock theme. The cover's minimalist design with only the band's name complements the indie rock genre. The man's rugged appearance representing a working class persona ties to stereotypes of indie rock band members and appeals to a wide working class audience.

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-This album cover is for their album ‘Whatever people say I am, That’s what I'm not’. The image of a man smoking is almost commercialising smoking to the audience. This suggests that arctic monkeys are not afraid to be controversial. - Also through the image of smoking, and the black and white effect of the photo, this creates a grungy, rock theme which we also find in the music. -The presentation of the band through this album could argue that the representation is negative due to the album cover, back cover and CD cover to be aimed at smoking, almost glamorising it. This could suggest that this band is a ‘rebel’ band which sings about the roughness and -The only title used on the front cover is the logo of the band which is their band name. The font compliments the rest of the album and carries the ‘indie rock’ genre of the band. The outlay of the cover is very minimalistic and lacks key information which the audience may need such as ratings of the album and what the title of the album is. -The close up angle of the man’s appearance is very rough and rugged through the bearded face, creased clothing and his action of smoking. This links to the stereotypical appearance of a indie rock band member. The representation is of a mainstream working class man, suggesting that the music may contain the views and opinions of this social group. It's representation of class means it is of wide appeal to the large working class audience.
-We see a constant use of the label’s logo on the CD cover, back cover and inside booklet. This shows the audience the ownership of the band and the album. This could also be used for copyright. -The image used on the CD cover is of used cigarettes which connotes grungy and a dark style. -The layout of each song is easy to read apart from there are no numbers next to each song which may cause the audience to take longer in finding a particular song they like on the CD. -The background of the inner cover uses the similar plain background used on the cover photo. The addressing of the audience is presented in small text in large paragraphs which may find difficult to read. -The man we see in the photo on the front of the album cover is the same on the back cover but uses a different body language. This could connote sadness, upset or he may have smoke in his eye suggesting humour.

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Album analysis 2

  • 1. -This album cover is for their album ‘Whatever people say I am, That’s what I'm not’. The image of a man smoking is almost commercialising smoking to the audience. This suggests that arctic monkeys are not afraid to be controversial. - Also through the image of smoking, and the black and white effect of the photo, this creates a grungy, rock theme which we also find in the music. -The presentation of the band through this album could argue that the representation is negative due to the album cover, back cover and CD cover to be aimed at smoking, almost glamorising it. This could suggest that this band is a ‘rebel’ band which sings about the roughness and -The only title used on the front cover is the logo of the band which is their band name. The font compliments the rest of the album and carries the ‘indie rock’ genre of the band. The outlay of the cover is very minimalistic and lacks key information which the audience may need such as ratings of the album and what the title of the album is. -The close up angle of the man’s appearance is very rough and rugged through the bearded face, creased clothing and his action of smoking. This links to the stereotypical appearance of a indie rock band member. The representation is of a mainstream working class man, suggesting that the music may contain the views and opinions of this social group. It's representation of class means it is of wide appeal to the large working class audience.
  • 2. -We see a constant use of the label’s logo on the CD cover, back cover and inside booklet. This shows the audience the ownership of the band and the album. This could also be used for copyright. -The image used on the CD cover is of used cigarettes which connotes grungy and a dark style. -The layout of each song is easy to read apart from there are no numbers next to each song which may cause the audience to take longer in finding a particular song they like on the CD. -The background of the inner cover uses the similar plain background used on the cover photo. The addressing of the audience is presented in small text in large paragraphs which may find difficult to read. -The man we see in the photo on the front of the album cover is the same on the back cover but uses a different body language. This could connote sadness, upset or he may have smoke in his eye suggesting humour.