Snoop Dogg is an American rapper from Long Beach, California. We can clearly see that in this album cover his image is more synthetic than organic, according to Keith Negus' theory about the ideologies of the music industry. He is making clear eye contact with the audience, there is also a very subtle fish eye effect which helps portray Snoop Dogg as being even larger than he actually is and it also creates such an effect makes it look like everything is revolving around him. You could say that by looking at what Snoop Dogg is wearing, he subverts to the whole 'gangsta' stereotype which would be baggy jeans, large shirts and etc. Although, the background very obviously fits with the theme of rap music with the groups of people divided into gangs with their pimped up cars. The colour emphasized is blue and it brings quite a cool tone to the image and suggests masculine power.
Mumford and Sons are a indie folk band that have originated from the United Kingdom that started off by conquering pubs and small concerts nationally, and now they have spread more across the globe. Their music is organic and it brings a very natural tone to it. As we can see in the photo of their album cover above, you can see that they are a very home based band that don't want to loose their spark of traditionalism and even just who they are. There is a clear emphasise on the band sitting on the bench, although the setting is a pub/old vintage store that has a lot of people doing their own things.The whole meaning behind the effect of making the people in the background look like they are moving suggests that there is a lot of caos happening in the world but the band still stick to their natural, harmonic selves.
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