Paramore: "Riot" Album Cover

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.

BTS: "The Most Beautiful Moment In Life. Pt 2" Album Cover

I really like the simplicity of this album cover. Having looked at quite a few of kpop album covers i came across a lot of bright bold colours and a lot of photographs of the group members, so this cover is a pleasant change. The composition of the butterfly, the petals and the writing create a well balanced and interesting image. I like how the colour palate is a pastel blue and how it creates a 'soft' feel to it, which connects with the album title 'The Most Beautiful Moment in Life. Pt 2'. There is a relaxed, freedom, simple vibe to the album art, which does create a visual for not only the title of the album, but for the music produced by BTS in this album. The songs are about youth, and the beauty of it and have a more slow-jam sound. Using a butterfly could also symbolise beauty, freedom and carefree life of youth. There is also a song called Butterfly in this album which is about the fear of having love ‘fly away’ or being like a butterfly- which are beautiful but hard to hold onto and keep. Because this is part two of a 3 part album project, we see that some of the same soft tones and symbols from the part one album cover are used again, creating a series.

The Most Beautiful Moment in Life. Pt 1

Rihanna: Anti Album Cover Art

With Rihanna's most recent album called 'Anti', she worked with Israeli artist Roy Nachum who traditionally created the artwork with paint. The image is of Rihanna as a child, holding a balloon and having her eyes covered by a golden crown. There is also a poem by Chloe Mitchell written over the image with braille. Despite the image consisting of only four colours, dominantly red, the image itself and the meaning behind it makes a huge impact. Nachum stated that he wanted to make artwork that even the blind could see and appreciate, hence the braille. Rihanna’s music has the same effect, with helping people ‘see’ without literally seeing; giving everyone the opportunity to ‘see’ through music. Despite the young Rihanna having her eyes covered, the songs of the present Rihanna opens the eyes of the public to her reality and emotions, however anti those emotions might be. Red being the dominant colour in the image could symbolise themes throughout her album such as passion, blood, life, and anger. I like composition of the image being on the left side with the centre and right white, giving it a ‘rule of third’ vibe to it where your eyes are still drawn to it even though it isn’t in the centre.

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Research: Paramore

Paramore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004. The band currently consists of lead vocalistHayley Williams and guitarist Taylor York. The group released its debut album All We Know Is Falling in 2005, with the album reaching number eight on the UK Rock Chart and number thirty on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart.

The band's second album, Riot!, was released in 2007. Due to the success of the singles "Misery Business", "crushcrushcrush", and "That's What You Get", Riot! was a mainstream success and was certified Platinum in the United States. They then received a Best New Artist nomination at the 2008 Grammy Awards. Their 2009 follow-up, Brand New Eyes, is the band's second-highest charting album to date, landing at number two on the Billboard 200 with 175,000 first week sales. It produced the top-forty single "The Only Exception" and went platinum in Ireland and the UK, as well as gold in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.^[1]

Following the departure of Josh and Zac Farro in 2010, the band released their self-titled fourth album in 2013. It gave the band their first career number one on the US Billboard 200 and was also the number one album in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.^[2] It included the singles "Still Into You" and "Ain't It Fun", with the latter winning the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song, making it Paramore's first Grammy win. Bassist Jeremy Davis left the band in December 2015.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramore)

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