Rhianna album cover- Loud

This album cover is for Rhianna's new album 'Loud'
This album cover shows an extreme close up of the artist Rhianna herself, this is an extremely good idea for this album cover as Rhianna is an extremely attractive RnB singer, therefore by putting herself on front of the album people will automatically recognise the artist and want to buy her album. People who have not heard of Rhianna will also most probably want to buy the album as she is very attractive therefore people will aspire to be like her or even just to look at her. The RnB genre almost always has attractive people within the videos so therefore she is kind of using the attractiveness of herself to sell her album.

The Mise on scene used in this album cover is rather simple yet very effective. Rhianna is not dressed up or showing any of her body however instead she has used the use of make up to create a dramatic yet naturally attractive look. Rhianna's hair and lips are bright red which immediately attracts the audiences attention, the colour red represents things such as danger, passion, love, anger and also has a sexy feel and look about it. These things can also be linked to the RnB genre as many RnB starts like to consider themself living an extravagnt yet dangerous lifestyle where they portray they don't fear anything, many RnB videos also like to show emotions therrfore the red could be showing things as passion and love, one convention of the RnB genre is also showing attractive 'sexy' people therfore the use of red lipstick on Rhianna shows this. It also looks very energetic which could be showing rhianna's music. The way Rhianna also has plump lips, long eyelashes and curly hair also shows her feminaty, however the bearing of her teeth and the slight bit off tatto we can see on her kneck also shows off her edgy side. We can also see that Rhianna is wearing earings which look a lot like diamonds, this could be showing her weath and also jewlary is another convention of the RnB genre.

The only piece of writing that can be seen on this album cover is the title of the album. The title is in a white basic font all in upper case, although the title 'Loud' can be clearly seen it seems like the photograph of Rhianna certainly takes the attention away from the albums name. The font is in white which I think goes extremly well with the red and gives the ablum a kind of cool sophisticated look. One thing I like about this album cover is that it is very simple yet very effective and appealing, I also like the fact how not too much is going on the album cover is simple and too the point showing the artist and also aspects of her music and personality therefore I can see this as been very attractive and appealing to the audience.