What is a Digipak, it is a modern approach to a CD cover, it is ment to represent to the audience what the band is all about, their image and their style.
Digipacks don’t always stick to conventions, different aspects changed, for example the album cover from Katie Melua where she is advertising her own self, and her own beauty.
This can be explained by the quote ‘men act and women appear’ –John Berger.
this quote basically states that a man will want to make/ create an overdone look to market themselves to a mass market of their choice, or to an audience member that is not familiar hoping that an over the top look at the band from one image will be enough to attract the audience member.
this shown in these album covers
- Gorillaz- demon days
- Medina Lake- from them, through us, to you
- Immortal Technique
- the Heavy- great vengeance & furious fire
- any Iron Maiden album
- any Avenged Seven Fold album
- Kya Bamba albums 1-6
- Guns and roses
- Hadouken!- music for an accelerated generation
- Hollywood undead
- Bliss N Eso- walking on air
- Prodigy- their law
- Blink 182
- Pig Iron
- almost every Dubstep album ever
- Wu-tang clan(every album)
this is not set in stone for all artists such as
- Gentleman-serenity
- Crazy Town- butterfly
- Collie Buddz- playback
- Arctic Monkeys- whatever people say I am, im not
- Professor Green- Alive till im dead
- Sean Paul- Trinity
- Eek a Mouse- mouse or man
- Jimi Hendrix- are you experienced
- Kero one- windmill in the soul
- Billy Idol- idol
Whereas an album cover like Bruce Springsteen’s greatest hits, he is already established as an artist so he has no reason to advertise like new upcoming artists do, this means that the conventions for him have no real need to be there. He has chosen however to stick to the conventions of the digipak.
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