NME Lilly Allen Analysis

The overall image of this cover, created primarily by the confrontational manor and attitude conveyed though female artist Lilly Allen's body language, the garish colour scheme which echoes the styling of the artist, edgy text resembling the style of newspaper clippings which may represent her constant appearance in the tabloids, and the connotations of female power, liberation, freedom of speech and concuring success in the music industry conveyed though the title 'taking on the world' overall creates a rebellious,non conformist and anti authority image, which would appeal to the typical target audience of NME, an anarchistic modern and unconventional music lover, but as its predominately directed at a male audience the use of a young and inspirational iconic female artist that breaks the boundaries of music, would appeal to a wider demographic, of both male and female.

This double page spread layout is extremely conventional of a magazine, with the right side of the page taken up predominately with the image of artistic, done for visual affect as when flicking though a magazine the eye rest majority on the right side. the feature headline echoes the style of the front cover, this bold and eccentric text juxtaposes the white background and re forces Lilly Allen's loud and confrontational manner, this image also helps to appeal to the demographic of the target audience. Lilly Allen's styling match the colour scheme of the article, and her masculine lumberjack shirt conveys that she does not what to appeal sexualized. Her strong body language and facial expression where she is directly looking at the reader which piecing yes, which conveys she is demanding attention from the reader, it also may be conveyed as intimidating.  The headline 'people think I'm an attention seeker but I'm just honest' portrayes her rebelious nature