The document compares and contrasts the album covers of Birdy and Nicki Minaj. Birdy's cover depicts her in an innocent, natural way wearing everyday clothes against a pastoral background to represent her folk music. In contrast, Nicki Minaj's cover uses bright pinks and reveals much of her body to portray a sexy, quirky image through her extravagant outfit and shocked facial expression, representing her wild hip hop, R&B, and pop music aimed at teenage girls. Both artists have stage names that are prominently displayed on their covers in very different styles corresponding to their unique music genres and personas.

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2. The background of the
album contains a lot of
pastel greens and
creams- these colours
represent innocence,
purity, natural and very
real to her music.
The clothing choice
they have chosen for
Birdy are everyday
clothes. The red
jumper is vintage
looking and she is
quite unique wearing
a red jumper with a
skin-coloured skirt
and black boots.
‘Birdy’ is her stage
name. Her real name is
Jasmine van den
Bogaerde. She sings
indie folk, folk, indie
pop, indie rock. Her
stage name isn’t very
big/ bold; it is placed in
the corner of the
screen, and her image
is placed directly in the
centre, with her
looking directly at the
camera, to show that
her image is her selling
point.
She is given a very natural look,
she’s not fake in any sense; she's
not wearing any makeup/fake tan/
fake eyelashes like Nicki Minaj.
Her body language is not
strong, her hands seem
to be naturally curled up
holding her skirt (that is
knee length) to show
how naïve and innocent
she is. Her legs are
crossed to show a natural
position, it doesn’t look
staged.
There seems to be no
album cover name, the
album is called ‘Birdy’-
they are selling her
name.
Birdy seems to be an artist that
sings slow, emotional songs that
portray a message and are very
personal to her. She looks like she
could write some of her songs and
play an instrument like the guitar
(acoustic style).

3. In comparison to
Birdy’s album cover.
Nicki Minaj’s is very
bright, vibrant and
pink. At the very top,
in capital letters her
name is printed and is
the largest font size on
the cover. Nicki Minaj’s look is
very unnatural in
comparison to
Birdys natural look.
Both artists are
completely different
in their own unique
way. Nicki Minaj is
revealing a lot of
flesh in order to
create a sexy,
seductive image to
the audience. She is
wearing bright pink
heeled boots and a
bright pink wig.
Nicki Minaj is looking directly facing forwards
on the cover, like Birdy. Except the different is
Birdy’s facial expression is very plain, whereas
Nicki’s is a shocked, quirky face implying that
her music is wild and quirky just like her.
Her clothes she is wearing
are very extravagant and
very ‘showy’; Nicki Minaj’s
aim is to come across as very
unique to other artists by
wearing out of the ordinary
clothes.
The album is aimed at
older female teenagers,
we can clearly see that
this album is targeted at
a female audience due
to the main colour of
pink stately represented
here.
Nicki Minaj is her stage name, her real name is Onika
Tanya Maraj. The genre of her songs are hip hop, R&B and
pop, very different to Birdy.