Album Cover Research
Fergie is Hip/Hop, Pop and R&B artist, who also raps and sings. The pictures for the back and frotn album cover is in a man's point of view, which links to Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze Theory.The artifical/stage lights point out the silk pillows Fergie's feminine parts; her smoky eyes, cheekbones, curves, flawless arms and legs and the light enables the male audience to see through her mesh lacy dress. This all creates an persona of the very seductive, sultry duchess, with matches the album title.
The track list is very small compared to the image, so it appeals to men, not just women. Again, the lights highlight her femininity. The colours; red in the backdrop and black outfits are associated with lust, glamour and dark romance and power. The edgy and abstract backdrop creates the tough girl image for Fergie, as it isn’t flowers, its more messy but subtle too. The crown on her head links with the album title, thus showing that sense of empowerment and diva traits in her artist image.
Album/ single EP for song 'Primadonna' with the traffic in the low angling makes her look very imtimidating, as she is looking direcetly at the camera in the single album covers. creates that conncection from the artsit to the sudience. The forest-like backdrop really inspired my grouo and I to a shot in a visually interesting shot for the digipak and music video.
Fergie is Hip/Hop, Pop and R&B artist, who also raps and sings. The pictures for the back and frotn album cover is in a man's point of view, which links to Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze Theory.The artifical/stage lights point out the silk pillows Fergie's feminine parts; her smoky eyes, cheekbones, curves, flawless arms and legs and the light enables the male audience to see through her mesh lacy dress. This all creates an persona of the very seductive, sultry duchess, with matches the album title.