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The Pretty Reckless Light Me Up Digipack Analysis
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2. The Pretty Reckless Digipack cover
for their album ‘Light Me Up’ presents
the audience with a very controversial
image of a little girl in a leather jacket,
holding out a lighter.
The lighting and colors being
presented in the cover reflect a
loss of innocence at an early age.
The lead singer, Taylor Momsen,
was only seventeen years old
when this album released. The
lyrics that she sings within the
album seriously present the
audience with imagery of a loss of
innocence.
The color scheme of the cover,
white, black, and grey, add to
the corruption imagery. Under
the black leather jacket, the girl
is wearing a very bright white
top. The darkness of the leather
jacket could be reflective of a
loss of innocence over time. On
one side of her, the pavement is
almost clear white. On the other,
there is a grey, rough surface to
the ground, indicating the
inevitable corruption.
The image of the girl holding up the
lighter in a direct mode of address
acknowledges the title of the cover
directly, and creates a connection
between the audience and the
character presented in the cover.
The font of the album title/artist
name is very conventional in
the rock genre. In order to
amplify the importance of the
band name and album title
they highlighted the outside of
the words in white, giving them
a glow to the words.
The color difference in the words
slightly makes up for the
difference in size. While the
band name is larger and more
spacious than the album title, the
album title, ‘Light Me Up’ is
presented in red font, amplifying
its own importance to the
audience.
The difference in color and
size of the words printed on
the front emphasize the
importance of each. In this
particular cover, the band
name shows more
significance than the title of
the album itself. They are
selling their brand.
The dark imagery from the cover
could be establishing the darker
lyrics within the music being
presented in the album.