Thursday, 16 September 2010

The first of my digi packs i will be analysing is professor green's (Stephen Paul manderson) his newly released album 'Alive til I'm dead' and the song i will be focusing on is 'I need you tonight' professor green is an early establishment to the music world when he was signed up on 12Th February by the label 'The beats', then after in July he won the jump off myspace £50,000 rap battle, then in 2009 he did touring with lily Allen.
The song I'm focusing on 'i need you tonight' was originally signed by virgin records, the song basically is about him trying to get girls and saying that hes a pimp and that girls should chase him but in the video its the other way round and he goes after the girl like 'feening' for her.

The front cover of Professor green's album is a picture of him 'posing' looking upwards quite seriously with his tattoo on his neck out saying 'lucky' could be showing this off to say that he is lucky about this album and has a feeling it will do well, also he looks like he has 'polished up well' so looks like he is perhaps wearing a bit of make up for the picture. He almost doesn't look real in a way from how is shadows are on his face and the looks of his eyes in the way they are colour contact lenses, also he has got a big scar on his neck were he has had to have a skin graft and it looks like it has been covered up quite well through shadowing etc even though its noticeable if pointed out. The writing is in thin font at the top of the page starting in white and then goes to like turquoise colour saying the title of the album 'Alive til I'm dead' with the parental advisory label at the bottom left of the cover.

This is the inside of the album cover another picture of himself looking quite sternly at the camera looking a bit like 'death' or again you could say serious, hes dressed in a casual black t-shirt with tattoos showing on his left arm again which could showing signs of him being rebellious maybe. The background is quite dull and is not a lot of 'life' to the picture so from the title of the album 'alive til I'm dead' might emphasise the fact that he is trying to look for dead than alive or proving a point from his side of life that you will always be alive until you die which seems obvious but it can have meanings to it.



The other side of the album cover where the CD will go over is again him with a colourful top on this time showing more a of a brighter side to him with his head turned to the side still and his tattoo on his neck showing again so is still trying to be 'rebellious'. The colourful top might show a change of from the first bit showing death and this bit where the CD will be going is showing life indicating that the CD will be good and showing life to hi music, also he has rolled one of his sleeves up to show his tattoo of a stick man in blood which was him after he got stabbed its showing that he still alive even though he was at risk of death like the tattoo on his neck saying 'lucky' was that hes lucky to still be alive after what happened and its basically saying you can do whatever you want don't let anything get you down. The way he has turned to the side is to say he doesn't want to go back down the road that he has been down and he wants to live the new him until he is gone through natural life.


The back of the album cover is in like a sepia colour almost with a human figure (professor green) walking with a chair in front on a photo shoot so its showing the end of the album kind of from how hes had pictures through the picture and now hes at the end and the chair probably symbolises him going to sit down for rest until hes ready to release the next album.
The songs hes done are on the side in small white font with all of the producers, studios and featuring artist in with the professor green logo.






The poster of the album is again a picture of his face showing another one of his tattoo's on his neck with his initials PG, also although he isn't hes go his right ear pierced and assumingly is supposed to mean you are 'gay' s he might be showing a feminine side plus with how hes looking is like a poser and a stereotypical model, this doesn't really send out a strong message to the audience but it is probably saying hes concentrating but he is just waiting for something like a number one spot etc.





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