The CD cover depicts Michael Jackson wearing a mask with a globe and ladder, suggesting danger is coming from anywhere. A hand is grabbing a child, and an eye watches closely, implying no one is safe. The cover conveys themes of danger, harm, and the need for help through its dark imagery and symbolism.

1. CD Cover Annotations
• By Luke Damagnez

2. The CD cover is for the
song Dangerous,
created by Michael
Jackson. You can see
Michael Jackson’s eyes
starting at you.
There is a kid trapped by a
unusual hand, most likely a
creatures hand. This can
portray that everyone is in
danger. There is teeth on
the hand, this can
represent a creature trying
to harm the child.
There is a mask, blocking the face of
Michael Jackson. When crimes are
committed the criminal would have a mask
on covering there whole face. This can also
portray, as he is wearing a mask, you cant
recognise him, and cant catch him, so there
will be more crimes and more people will
be in danger.
There is a globe in the middle of the picture.
This can portray that the whole world is
affected and in danger. There is also a ladder
which allows someone to climb up onto the
globe. This can portray that danger is coming
There is an eye looking
straight at you. This can
portray that someone is
always watching you. This can
represent that your never
safe, someone is watching
every move you do.
The audience is mainly teens but Michael
Jackson has a huge fan base so the
audience can go up to late 40s and 50s.

3. There is harmless
animals like a elephant
and monkey going into
the tunnel
There is humans and
lizards coming out of the
tunnel. This can portray,
that not everyone is a
good person, some
people will be evil and
harm people
The background and the
top is dark, most crimes
happen at night as there
is a higher chance
criminals wont get
recognised.
There is a lot of colours, mostly
gold and light blue. These
colours are colours that can
portray happiness. In the middle
the colours are a lot darker,
more gloomy. This can represent
people have a good side, and a
bad side, but the bad side can
overweigh the good side.
The genre of this album is pop.
One song is called ‘Black or white’.
This song is directed about racism in
the world. People have been killed
due to there skin colour. But more
people respect other race’s now. But
people are still in danger from people
who want to hurt and abuse someone
who isn’t there skin colour.
Another song is called ‘Heal the World’. This clearly shows MJ
wants to help make the world fair and happy for everyone.
Everyone is in danger and we don’t want to be. This shows the type
of music MJ likes to create.

4. These seem to be pillars. But
they are separated. As they
come closer, they get taller. This
can symbolise
The genre of music imagine dragons sing is dance-pop.
There is a boy standing in the
middle of the picture. He is also
on the highest pillar which is
separated from others. This can
symbolise that you are alone
and isolated. He is standing on
the highest pillar. This can
symbolise that
The colour in this picture is
mostly dark colours. There
is one bright colour, which
is on the left. This could be
the sun. This could
symbolise the sun is
moving away from the
boy. The sun can represent
happiness, and now
darkness will fall onto the
boy.
The boy is staring into the
clouds, like something is
behind it. The name of the
band is Imagine Dragons.
The ‘imagine’ bit can help
us understand that the
boy is imagining
something which could
come out of the cloud.
There is a dark cloud, this
can symbolise danger. This
cloud could be smothering
the boy soon. This can
symbolise danger to the boy
and danger to anyone who
is by themselves. This can
also represent that people
need help.
The target audience is from 14 to 25.

5. This is the band’s name. It
is written in capital letters,
with the colour white. The
colour white makes the
writing stand out. This is
because the background
colours are low key
lighting. The album title is
a smaller font than the
band name. This can
represent that the album
title isn’t as important as
the band. When looking at
this album cover, the
audiences will see the
band’s name first this can
help increase sales if the
band is popular.
The first song in this album is called
‘Radioactive’. Radioactive is also
known with nuclear work. Nuclear
gas emits radioactive decay.
Radioactive decay is dangerous as it
can damage a person’s cells. Nuclear
is a weapon which can be and has
been used to kill thousands of
people. This can help symbolise the
low key lightings which represent
danger to the boy.
There is also songs called
‘Demons’ and ‘Bleeding Out’. This
can represent death, which is
dark. Death symbolises darkness.
There album colours are dark. The
songs can help represent the
album, and the type of music
Imagine Dragons like to crate.

6. .
There is a hand grenade
which represents danger and
death. The grenade is shaped
as a love heart. This can
represent that people you
love are in danger or even
people you love can put you
in danger, even if they don’t
mean it. The grenade is red,
which can symbolise blood
and fear.
There is red blood dripping
from the grenade onto his
hand. You see blood when
someone has hurt
themselves or someone has
been violent to someone.
American Idiot is
the name of the
album. It is not in
capitals. This can
symbolise that the
artists want them
to be more
important than the
songs as the artists
name is in capitals.
You would call someone a
idiot for doing something
stupid. Idiot is in the colour
red which can symbolise
death, and fear. This can
symbolise that people do
idiotic things which can result
in violence and even death.
This album has 3 different genre’s Pump Rock, Pop Punk and Alternative
rock.
The audience will be 15-24 year olds.

7. The background colour is black.
This can represent darkness.
Most violence will happen
when its darker as there is a
higher chance the criminal will
not get found. With the red
colour as well, black and red
are colours of fear.
Green Day is the name of
the band. The word
‘GREEN DAY’ is in capitals,
which will make the word
stand out more then
‘American idiot’. This
symbolises that the
artists want there name
to stand out more to
customers than the
albums name.
There is a song called
Letterbomb. This helps
symbolise that the album
can be about death
especially with the hand
grenade in the.
There is another song called
Homecoming. This can
represent someone coming
home, maybe from a crime
scene. It could be someone
coming home hurt or even in a
coffin. Homecomings can be
celebrations, someone could of
come home from work in the
army.