CD Cover Analysis

1. Horns denote the name of the album of which
‘Little Talks’ comes from. (My Head Is An
Animal)
Portrait looks
professional and serious,
but the animation of the
horns , bushy eyebrows
and streams flowing from
the nose shows a more
fun aspect of the cover. It
also connotes that the
music is soft as the
colours used are pastels,
The animated mouth and that the music is fun
relates to the band also.
name ‘Of Monsters And
Men’
‘Little Talks’ by Of Monsters And Men is one of my favourite single covers at
the moment because of the black and white portrait being animated by the
pastel colours streaming from the nose and the big bushy eyebrows. Also
the horns coming from the forehead are relevant, even though it might not
seem like they are, the album which ‘Little Talks’ is from is called, ‘My head
is an animal’.

2. The fact that
‘Sex Pistols’
is written
over the
Queen’s
mouth is
controversial
as the Sex
Pistols are
anti Royal
Family, and
with their
album of
which this
song comes
from being
called ‘
Never Mind
The Bollocks,
Here’s The
Sex Pistols’
wouldn’t be God Save The Queen’ by the Sex Pistols is an iconic single
associated
with the
cover as the band are against the Royal Family, the date of
Queen. release is also controversial as it was released during
Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee.
If this were to be sitting on a shop shelf, it would be easy to
spot because of the Union Jack being brightly coloured and
the black and white portrait of the Queen situated in the
middle of the flag, it might have been the cover which made
it to number 1 in the NME charts.

3. The artist herself is splitting up the font
making an audience who haven’t heard of
her before uncertain who she is and what
her name is.
Slang word is used,
showing the artist as
age appropriate and
also appealing to a
certain audience.
I personally don’t like this single cover because the writing looks like it’s all over the place and
has no organisation to it. The photograph of the artist splits up her name in writing, which could
confuse the audience to what her name is. The single name is written in a font which would perhaps
be linked to the audience of which this song is targeted for.
Two different fonts are used on the cover, a fluent and bubbly one for the artist’s name, and a
long, sharp font used for the singles name, which could be used to distinguish the artist from the
song title.

4. ‘B’ has been turned
back to front.
The bands stance
denotes the ‘rock’
genre.
Long and untamed hair
also denotes rock
bands.
Nickelback’s ‘Too Bad’ single cover is really good because it’s headlined by the bands
name, but they’ve played around with it, and turned ‘B’ back to front, then underneath ,
the song title is stated in a smaller font, but so everyone is able to see it. However I
think with a cover like this, if this were to be sitting on the shop in HMV, you’d be able
to tell what song the CD is for if you’re a Nickelback fan. I also like this cover because
the band are on the front, wearing relatively cheap items of clothing, because of this,
their audience and young children could want to be them and would be able to
achieve their look; the items of clothing denote that Nickelback are a rock band, what
also denotes this, is their stance and Chad Kroeger’s long untamed hair.