Task 1- Work- Indie Genre

I have decided to choose Indie and my genre of music to concentrate on.
'Indie' originally meant any band signed to an independent rather than major label. But there is a "sound" that those kind of bands generally have, and even when they aren't signed to an independent label, they still sound raw and "self made". So the term "indie" has kind of passed itself onto describing the music, rather than the music label.
There are different sub genres of indie, and they all have different characteristics. For example Indie can range from Indie rock to  Indie pop. Indie pop normally including more acoustic characteristics.But I would say that the one thing all indie music has in common is this: authentic rather than manufactured, sounding, and it should have obscure or different lyrics rather than typical ones you hear from big, arena bands.
Grunge bands like Nirvana were a form of Indie Rock. That's another thing, indie tends to be more mellow and emotional than rock music that edges towards metal. Brit rock, like Oasis and Blur, are indie too. Modern bands like MGMT and Vampire Weekend are very "different" sounding, they mish mash lots of genres together.

I feel indie is almost controversial and contradicting, though I do really like it, because everyone doing Indie are supposed to be "Independent" yet they all follow the same characteristics.

Task 2- Research and Understanding

 Beyonce...

Here we can see her actions linking to the name of her single.
This can be shown through the attention drawn to her crusifix
bracelet. This makes her seem innocent and angelic. The colour
sceme also reflects this as it uses all montone colours including
greys and whites. This again reflects back to heaven and even
possibly being religious.
The Writing is however black and bold to contrast all of the other colours.
However there is still an element of sex appeal byu the pose she is striking.
She isnt smiling but more, glaring/pouting at the camera. This contrasts the image
she has already previously portrayed. By having her hands on her forhead in this way
works with the look she is giving sending out a seductive message.


GAGA

We can see by this album cover that the artist isnt "Normal" She has a very
bold look which could be seen offensive to some and she deffinitely wouldnt
be aimed at an older audience.
She send out a rebelious vibe and we can see this by what she is wearing,
the pose the is pulling and her body language. She is drawing attention to her
body showing that she isnt afraid of what she looks like and she wants everyone to look at her.
She has her mouth open which send out a seductive signal linked to to the way
she is standing.
She looks like trouble and if you look at the paper i n s e r t s that are glued over her
body we notice that they are made up of very contraversial issues and words. We can
also tell this by the way she is coverend in cuts. She almost has a wacky Michael Jackson theme
to her outfit with the one glove rubbed up against her serious face. This could reflect to a possible idle
of hers which she wants to have a little bit of.



NELLY

We can see here that Nelly is represented as a bad boy. He has giant diamonds through
his ears and a giant ring on his finger as well as a diamond encrusted watch.
We can see he has tattoos up his arms and he isnt making any kind
of expression. He looks like he could have been in jail if we look at his white tank
top and the way he is posing holding his neck. He also is posing so we see the main
bulk of his muscles. This makes him look tough. He is glaring at the camera almost pouting.
He looks like he means business. We can tell his songs may be offensive or rude due to the "Parental Advisory
explicit content" sticker on the front of the cover.