Textual Analysis of Front Cover 1

This front cover is for Chris Browns' latest album Graffiti. It was released in 2009 and is his latest album to be released.

The album is called Graffiti and it shows the album singer Chris Brown holding a can of spray paint expressing the album name graffiti as he is making graffiti. Chris Brown is the main focus of the album as he is the biggest thing on the album he is stood holding a guitar on his back and a can of spray paint. The guitar shows that his album is moving into a kind of rock genre which is different to his other albums. It shows the rock side of the album just by showing him with a guitar because people are used to see Chris Brown as just a singer but this album cover showing him with a guitar will instantly show his audience that he is going a different way now and putting some rock into his music. The album doesn’t have his own name on it, it just has the album name. This is saying that he has made such a big name for himself that he doesn’t need his name on the album because people will already know who he is just by showing himself on the album. The album name Graffiti is in a unique graffiti font which Chris Brown is shown spraying himself from the spray paint can therefore showing why its called Graffiti. Unlike other albums this cover is emphasising the album name and due to Chris Brown shown making the album name himself its giving a sort of meaning behind the cover which is how I want my album cover to come across. The hand what Chris Brown is using to spray the graffiti is bionic this is showing a sense of futuristic further emphasising that his album will be like nothing anyone has ever heard him sing before. The album is quite dark and this shows the dark side of the album and how its changed from upbeat to more of a rock sound. It also shows the seriousness of the album and how Chris Brown wants his audience to see that he is serious about this album.