This advertisement for Rihanna's album "Rated R" features a large image of her covering one eye, intriguing viewers about why she's doing so and enticing them to buy the album for context. Consistent with Rihanna's seductive style, she wears dark makeup and leather with what seems to be a knuckle duster. The singles "Russian Roulette" and "Hard" stand out in bold red text against the black-and-white backdrop, their titles suggesting danger and sexuality. The poster also prominently displays Rihanna's recognizable "R" logo trademark.

1. This is Rihanna’s advertisement of her album ‘Rated R’. The first thing our eyes are
drawn to is the large image of her where she is shown to be covering one eye yet keeping
eye contact with the reader. The fact she is covering up part of her face is very effective
in the sense that we don’t know why she is doing it which creates a sense of fascination
and intrigues the reader to buy the album to see if there is any resemblance. This poster is
not much different to Rihanna’s CD covers etc. which tend to be quite seductive as she is
wearing deep black eye and lip makeup and black leather clothes with what looks like a
knuckle duster around her fingers/hands which also suggests power. The two singles
mentioned on the poster ‘Russian Roulette’ and ‘Hard’ are both put in big bold red text so
they are standing out from the rest of the poster which is in black and white and ‘Russian
Roulette’ also suggests danger and ‘Hard’ could also suggest sexual intercourse. As well
as her albums, this poster also uses the logo ‘R’ that people usually instantly recognize to
be Rihanna which is a big trade mark for her now.