I have chosen to analyse Mika's music album which is called 'Life In Cartoon Motion'.
Cartoon style writing links to one of the words in the album title, that being 'Cartoon', A large woman links to one of the songs that is called 'Big Girls', there is also a small picture of the artist who created the album, but when you look at the album cover you do not really notice it unless mentioned to you, which means it doesn't draw attention to itself, maybe this is a hint at what Mika is like himself. Bright vibrant colours attract attention when displayed anywhere as well as the big block letters keeps the audience attentive along with everything looking as though it is spreading outwards.
Shoes, flowers, bright colours and a piano show Mika’s interests and allows people with similar interests to identify with him Cogs are a symbol of things working together and the progression of development, and could represent how Mika’s mind works or that you need to be able to think to understand his songs.
Mika’s album designer uses intertextuality to create links between his many album covers. All use bright colours and plain writing.
One of the songs on this album is called Lollipop. The video to this song contains many of the themes from the album cover, including the large colourful circles and clouds. The blonde girl from the cover features in this video as 'lollipop girl', and the 'big girl' from the cover.
The video can be found here:
The video features the large abstract coloured circle and stripes from the album cover, to create a link between the two. You can also see at one point of the music video it has the big girl’s boot, flowers, a man on his sofa, household furniture, 2 kissing rabbits, a large black wolf, and Mika’s name in large bubble writing. All of these are abstract in their appearance, and most appear on the front cover, and so provide a link between the video and album cover
All of Mika's promotional posters feature brown cloud-like shapes at the bottom of the poster where further information about the album is provided. All are made up of bright colours, but each uses colour differently. Some of the posters are very crowded, and made up of circles and stripes of colour. Some show strange vase like objects as well as the patterns, and the others are less cluttered and have very few colours on it. All have Mika’s name written on them, in the large white writing. The font and size of his name is the same in most posters, maintaining a link between all of the posters even though the images on them are different.
