These images are the two front covers of music magazines: Top of the Pops and Rolling Stones. There is a stark contrast between these front covers in both imagery and audience. I can tell that the Top of the Pops magazine is aimed at young teenage girls due to its colour scheme (pink, white and yellow) and images/feature stories. It talks about typical bands/singers that young girls tend to listen to, like JLS, the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus. The magazine also includes a fashion article to entice the sterotypical young girl who wants to shop. This cover acheives in reaching out to its audience, but the cover seems too cluttered with pugs, puffs, text and imagery.
The Rolling Stones front cover contrasts greatly against the Top of the Pops cover. The image of Lady Gaga is extremley provocative to attract its male audience (or the "male gaze" in relation to Mulvey's femminist theory), as the female audience will already be attracted to the pop music made by the artist herself. The colour scheme is very simple and modern, put does not draw the readers attention as much as the hot pink background of the Top of the Pops cover. However, I think that the Rolling Stones cover is much better than the Top of the Pops magazine as it has a more simple and recognisable layout, and is a lot less cluttered than the other cover.
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