Electro-pop albums textual analysis

1. The CD covers of
electro-pop artists

2. ART POP – Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is also another artist under this genre of music and she conforms to the
typical conventions of electro-pop products in the majority of her CD covers. For
example ‘ART POP’ which was released on November 6th in 2013. ‘ART POP’ is
Gags’s third studio album and includes some of her most famous singles such as
‘Applause’ and ‘Do What U Want’ with featured vocalists also making an
appearance on the album such as R.Kelly, T:I and Twista.
The album cover itself has used a wide range of bright, bold colours especially for
the titling of the album seen at the bottom of the CD cover in white, large writing,
which looks bold against the blue object. As well as the bright pink typography for
the artists name, which is very effective in regards of standing out very clear to
the audience due to the background of the album cover.
The typography of Gaga’s name is the first initial thing you see whilst looking the
cover, compared to the actual main artist herself as in the cover she is all one
colour and styled to look like a statue or mannequin. Her facial expressions and
body language look very stiff and emotionless, comparing her to a mannequin or
a statue.
Additionally, the colours also link to the name of the album as the images in the
background of the album show various art pieces, which can demonstrate the
album covers look as abstract and creative, and the bold colour scheme used link
in to the era of ‘art pop’.

3. ANIMAL – Kesha
The artist is introduced with a close up image of her
on the front cover of the album, which is a typical
convention of an electro- pop artist. Additionally, she
is filtered in black and white, with a white rim around
her which makes her stand out. Due to this colouring,
it makes the gold a very central colour for the album
artwork which can suggest wealth and fame, also
another typical convention of a pop artist. I will be
considering to do the same on my album cover, as
this will make it fit in with the genre of the song.
The font used on the front and back cover looks
almost handwritten which suggests that the artist is
fun and does not really care about what it looks like.