This album cover for Otis Redding says alot about his type of music. The red background has connotations of romance in his music. The picture is an iconic image Otis Redding and we know this because it is a picture of a man and the album title anchors the meaning is from one artist who sings. Singing obviously shows that he is a singer so the songs are going to be real live music recording (not over produced). Otis Redding is a soul singer. He has an instantly recognisable voice that the audience can associate with black people. His facial expression shows his music is very expressive and meaningful. This is why the editor included this photo to emphasise the music is REAL. This album cover tells us alot about the music included.
This helps me in my research because I am now aware that my album cover has to somehow link into the genre of music that is being played. The colours, the font, the picture and the design all have to fit into what my audience will expect, aswell as it being eye catching for the audience it needs to link into the music in that album.
However- this isn't always the case as Weezer did a album based on the character from lost- Hurley.
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo explains the reasoning behind the Hurley album:
"We struggled super hard trying to come up with an album title, trying to find some kind of phrase that summed up the whole aesthetic behind the album: 'Heavy Mental,' 'Smaller Than Life." I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn't really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia -- it just had this amazing vibe. We didn't want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as 'the Hurley record' even if left it without that title, so we just called it 'Hurley.' No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face." --
http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Weezer-Names-Their-New-Album-After-Hurley-From-Lost-26237.html
This shows how some album covers aren't really related at all to the type of music and a album cover doesn't connote anything at all to their type of music or the type of song. Comparing both artists, Otis Redding and Weezer are both mass media producers of music yet the album covers are very opposite in the way they are designed to either be very meaningful with lots of connotations to the genre of music or be very random and have no meaning to the music whatsoever.
However- this isn't always the case as Weezer did a album based on the character from lost- Hurley.
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo explains the reasoning behind the Hurley album:
"We struggled super hard trying to come up with an album title, trying to find some kind of phrase that summed up the whole aesthetic behind the album: 'Heavy Mental,' 'Smaller Than Life." I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn't really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia -- it just had this amazing vibe. We didn't want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as 'the Hurley record' even if left it without that title, so we just called it 'Hurley.' No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face." --
http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Weezer-Names-Their-New-Album-After-Hurley-From-Lost-26237.html
This shows how some album covers aren't really related at all to the type of music and a album cover doesn't connote anything at all to their type of music or the type of song. Comparing both artists, Otis Redding and Weezer are both mass media producers of music yet the album covers are very opposite in the way they are designed to either be very meaningful with lots of connotations to the genre of music or be very random and have no meaning to the music whatsoever.
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