Thursday, 21 June 2012

Textual Analysis of Album Cover

Jay - Z 
The Black Album 


The Black and shades of grey emphasize the predominantly black genre of music (hip-hop/rap) that Jay-Z creates for his audiences. 

The expression on Jay-Z 's shows a powerful, strong black man, which 
mirrors his music as he raps about the 'bling' in his life to inspire other 
young poor back youths. 

The ablum cover suggests that Jay-Z is more about his appearance than the music he makes as their is no sign of what he is about. However, he is a world famous star, and was when this album cover was released so his existing fan bases and the public all around the world already knew who he was. 

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