1. My album overview
By Lyden Smith

2. Eminem – Relapse At think that from just looking at the front cover
he is trying to aim at a certain type of audience I
think that it is young people/ teenagers because
A sticker on the cover
many addictions start from pressure from other
resemble prescription drug
people. The cd cover of pills is saying to young
label, on which the patient
people with problem such as him it can eat you
is Eminem (artist) and
up and consume you. The colours that he uses
Dr.Dre (producer of the
are black and oranges/red. The oranges say he
artist) is the prescribing
still has passion in him for his music but the
doctor. This album art work
black says that he is still in disorder and irritation
is a reference to the
over his past problem there is more orange and
rapper's struggle and
red then black so this is saying that he will over
addiction to prescription
the darkness that he is fighting it shows that he
drugs.
is almost there. The fact that some letters in the
title “Relapse” is written backwards shows that
he has had set back during his rehabilitation
process. It shows that sometimes he was doing
To me it also looks as if it is a continent great and then other times he was going back
I am interpreting this as his world of on every good thing that he had done.
pills his addiction. On the album cover This album cover is by Eminem
it is just Eminem. He could be saying and it is called Relapse it is his
that it was all him no one was three to sixth studio album since he The parent advisory sticker is a warning
support him through his problems. But suffered form his addiction of to the buyers to warn them of explicit
every one judge him now he is looking sleeping pills and writers block. content which also complies with the
all the judgers in the face if you look at This picture on genre of hip-hop as it contains, normally,
his eyes if feel as if he is looking right a lot of explicit lyrics. This is conventional
in to your soul. because this is what you would expect to
see in RnB
The colour of the red pills implies an angry side, which
goes in line with the genre as the artist is a
rapper, and the majority of his work is very explicit and The artist is made up of a collage of
angry this is a side that is what the audience want pills, which portrays the artist’s previous
struggles. That he may have
encountered in his life

3. T.I – Paper Trail
T.I is called “Paper Trail” it is made out of
The layout of the font is shown scrape paper and newspapers. I interpret
that T.I is at the top and that it in the way that T.I has had a lot of
shows importance towards the problems with the police. When the
audience that his name is on police are looking at suspect that
top, then paper trail this is someone is doing wrong they will look for
because the artist name is a paper trail to try and catch their
more important than the suspect. The picture that I see when
album tittle the fan and target looking at this cover looks like a man in
audience will recognise his sorrow and anguish he is not happy but
name. furthermore his album he looks like a man that is content with
is called paper trail and the what is happening to him he looks like
album is made of paper, this in someone who know why thing are the
in reference to his album are way they are. The name of T.I and
paper trail the title of the album is written so simple
Because the album is very abstract it makes because he want to show that he is real
it stick out more to the audience and can and completely natural. He wants to
easily be recognised show that there is no digitalised effect
used to make it look more appealing to
the eyes. It is also saying that his songs
In this album T.I does not have a parental will be like this, they will be simple and
advisory sticker this is because his album back to basic.
is cleaner and therefore does not need it as
he has take a different route in the music
industry

4. Conclusion
 To me both cover are saying very different things Eminem artwork on
the cover is a picture of him in a mosaic of pill at the bottom left hand
corner it is a prescription that is prescribed by DR Dre for Eminem.
This shows that Eminem has a funny side to him it shows that the old
sarcastic Eminem it show that he is still there. The size of the label
show that the pills still have on hold him because it take up more of the
space on the CD cover. Eminem’s and T.I’s close up are very similar in
both of them it feels as if they are looking right through the type of
audience that they are targeting. In my opinion both CD covers show
that these artist have major problems the name of T.I’s album “Paper
Trail” shows he is all ways in problem with the Police. Eminem mosaic
of pills shows that he has problems with pills. The one that I prefer the
most is T.I’s one because looking at it is visually pleasing because it
makes me try to imagine making an image on that level of excellence.

5. My CD cover
 When I do my CD cover I want there to be a graffiti background in
which my artist will stand out and make them stick out more to the
audience. In addition, at the same time I want to show that my artist is
in a big world but yet he stand out making the artists look more abstract
which they can make a connection between the artist and the audience
which will make the audience want to buy it. To do this I will make it so
that the background has deep and feeling such as all different colours. I
will be using all different colours because they all have different
connotations as the theme colour I feel that it is a loud colour that will
grab audience’s attention which the audience can make a connection
between the artist and be able to relate to the artist. I have taken
pictures of what I want my background to be I will edit and make my CD
cover on Photoshop to make it look more professional and more
appealable to my audience.