The document discusses the strengths and weaknesses of different music magazine genres. Pop magazines are bright, colorful, and affordable, aimed at teenagers and young adults. Indie/rock magazines make bold statements focusing on individual artists using reds and blacks to appeal to males. R&B magazines use bold colors to highlight individual artists and appeal to both men and women. Classical magazines have a plain design to attract older audiences and use color schemes tailored to specific artists. However, the genres are also limited in their audiences, with pop magazines mainly appealing to teenage girls, indie/rock to boys, and classical and R&B having smaller interested audiences.

1. Strengths of Music magazines
Pop
• Teenagers look up to pop stars.
• Bright and colourful so they
stand out.
• Aimed at teenagers, included
young adults in the magazine
world.
• One of the only genres to provide a music
magazine for young girls.
• They are one of the cheapest magazines.
Indie/rock
• They are bold and make a
statement.
• Each issue focuses on one artist.
• Uses reds and blacks to show it is
aimed at males.
R&B
• It’s aimed at women and men.
• Uses bold colours to make it stand out.
• Focuses on one R&B artist to attract reader
to read about their favourite artist.
Classical
• Plain and simple to attract to its target audience.
• Only magazine aimed at older people.
• Colour scheme changes to suit the artist the issue
is aimed at.

2. Weaknesses of Music magazines
Pop
• Only aimed at teenage girls.
• Could influence young adults
in the wrong way.(Explicit images)
Indie/rock
• Only aimed at boys.
• Can sometimes look
too busy.
R&B
• There is not many producers of R&B
magazines.
• There is not a wide audience for R&B
magazines.
Classical
• They are only aimed at older people.
• There is not a wide range of people who want to read
a classical magazine.