Music Magazine Front Cover Analysis

This is a front cover page from Rolling Stone magazine and features Amy Winehouse as the lead article. The main image used of her overlaps over the masthead, this is frequent in magazines such as Rolling Stones as it is well-established and the font alone is recognisable enough without the whole name needing to be seen.

Her expression is very powerful and almost rebellious, her eye-contact with the reader makes an instant connection of, 'What are you looking at?', it keeps up her threatening appearance but vulnerable inside. This is further suggested with her lead article title, "The Diva & Her Demons", this uses alliteration to make the title flow and make the words seem to be connects to one another. The 'diva', in the title, refers to her stage presence, attitude, and out-of-control reputation, the 'demons' increases the front that she is insecure, vulnerable and not in a good frame of mind. The article suggests Winehouse will open up and explore these problems, giving the reader some insight.

Not much else is used to fill the cover apart from a left third, which is used to advertise "Summer Tours", running off a small list of names. This shows that the Amy Winehouse interview is the soul focus of the issue with little else making a mark.

This cover seems rather empty for a music magazine, however as it is a Rolling Stones magazine it is not all that surprising. Rolling Stones is a very successful, well established magazine and would not need a lot of cover lines or new interest to do well as it already has a huge number of readers. All this shows is that Rolling Stones are not afraid to take risks with their covers, and can always get away with it when they do.

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