Sanusia1

Sanusia1

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  The front coverof a music magazine of Onika Tanya Maraj a Trinidadian Rapper that has over the years become the Queen of rap. She has sold billions of albums worldwide and has fans ranging from 3years old to 30 years old. Here she is featured in ‘THE WOMEN OF KING’ magazine cover which will be analyzed in the following slides.
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  THE COVER’S DENOTATION ANDCONNOTATION The magazine cover denotes the image of a Caribbean female rapper (Nicki Minaj) almost nude, posing sexually and looking at the camera seductively. The cover consists of only four colours (pink, white, cream and black). However, it connotes way more. To start off, her outfit and her look accompanied by her pose connotes sexual attraction which tends to draw men towards the cover. Keenly looking at the cover it will be noticed that her look combined with the colour of her outfit and pose isnt only that of seduction but also boldness, courage and power as the colour black is meant to represent positively these three things. The masthead ‘THE WOMEN OF KING’ symbolises ‘women that are allowed to be their crazy self with a conscience not to feel less than a man’.
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  MODE OF ADDRESS Fromthe cover, readers get a direct stare of confidence and seduction from her.The men will first notice the sexuality of her look whilst the ladies after looking will get the real meaning which is that of confidence and asurrance.
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  IDEOLOGY OF THEMAGAZINE The main ideology of the magazine cover is portraying Caribbean women in a bold, sexy and confident way. Looking at that image I see a woman as the cover says that blows the mind of people from both gender, her confidence strikes the readers by every content of the page. This is a message to Caribbean women that they can dress like that and be proud of themselves and their body at all times.
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  DEMOGRAPHICS AND IDENTITY The magazineattracts people from the Caribbean most because on it is featured a successful Caribbean female rapper that has gone international. It also draws people that support/like black female rappers or people that like dressing like that. Nicki Minaj is known to have alter egos (different identities) but her identity chosen is BARBIE, the beautiful, sexy, calm, bold and powerful girl, this encourages her readers to dress like that and be confident in themselves.