SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS Freetown Sound - Blood Orange

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- The use of two black subjects on the album cover is supportive of his genre, which is influenced significantly by rap, african drum patterns, and jazz, all genres created by the black community.
-Women are presented negatively on this album cover. The woman is presented in short shorts and a vest top, which all suggest a sexualisation of the woman. The fact the man seems deeply in love with the woman, the woman is depicted with her eyes open, suggesting she is just using the man, and is not necessarily in love with him.
-The bed takes up much of the album cover which perhaps suggests the women is only using the man for sex. On the contrary the somewhat luxurious looking bed sheet alludes to the fact that the woman is using her sexuality to take money from the man.
-The bare, and somewhat clinical looking mis en scene in the bedroom mirror the shallowness of the woman in the album cover.
- The use of the mirror is typical of the music genre, which often focusses on voyeurism as a key theme. It also suggests a duality to the people presented, which would support the suggestion that the woman is only using the man for money.

Alexander



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