During lesson we textually analysed Jay Z's most recent album cover 'The Blueprint 3' (shown on the left). We also looked at his previous album covers, to look at how his career focus changed, with his picture being in the for front or him being the main focus, to his most recent one, where he took it back to him being about the music, and how music is a form of art.
Looking into his album covers we saw how is the centre of attention, as that is how new artists start out, were the record label decides everything, were they used Jay Z's genre of Hip Hop and the Thug look, and close ups of him.
The close ups and Thuggish look makes to audience feel intimidated by him, but as Jay Z became more successful in his music career he came to have more say in the what he did and made it more about the music than him shown in the first picture of his most recent album cover.
Jay Z over time has become more noticed for his music than him, and has become a producer in his own right for himself and other artists. he has also collaborated with artists outside of his genre like; Linkin Park, showing that any genre can produce great music together as it is about the music and not the artist them self. Using Jay Z as a influence I want my band cover image to be more about the music, the artist is creating.
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