The word riot either means a violent disturbance of peace by a crowd or an impressively varied or large display of something. I think the latter applies with Paramore’s Riot album cover. This album cover really does capture the title of the album, with a riot or chaotic spray of the word 'riot' as a background and the members of Paramore amongst it all. Despite the cover only having three colours, white black and red, the whole of the cover is fully covered with few places of negative space. The cover has been filled in a way that creates a riotous and busy look. Not only is the cover art of a riotous nature, it connects to the rock music produced by Paramore which is a riot of emotions being verbally expressed in the lyrics of the songs and in instruments. There are songs which are loud and upbeat in tempo like ‘Misery business’ and ‘crushcrushcrush’, and also songs are more slow and ballad-like like ‘We are broken’ and ‘When it rains’ which shows the mix of tempos- connecting to the mix of sizes of the word riot that is written all over the background. Having the band members simply drawn in black and white and placing them in the centre helps your eye to focus on them without getting distracted by all the words surrounding them.
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