Music Genres

On Monday 23rd February, we designed a spider diagram in groups and wrote all the key features that we believed were in relation to different music genres. The main ones we looked at was Pop, Hip Hop, Dance and Rock. On Wednesday 25th February, we were given the task to look at different music genres and decide whether what our spider diagrams originally contained were not far off what the magazines actually had.

My group's main focus was the genre Pop. We thought the colours are generally vibrant, bright colours that are attractive and keep the attention of the eye. We believed the main audience to be young girls and some young boys, aged between 12-15. Typical Artists were people like Girls Aloud, The Ting Tings etc. The lanauge used in the songs can sometimes contain abbreviations that young people commonly use, like "lol" (laugh out loud) and "bff" (best friends forever).

When studying the magazine, we found ourselves to be mainly correct. However what surprised us was that the magazine was not aimed at boys what so ever. The colour scheme we believed to be correct, although it indicated it was only for girls because the main colour was pink, and it also had what young girls would class as "heart throbs".
Zac Effron, who is known as a main model for the girls at a young age, almost featured on literally every page. The adverts in the magazine were aimed at a young audience, girl products were also advertised.
There were a lot of pages on love and there were also quizzes, and things like celebrity love matches, doing a quiz and finding out who you match with in the celebrity world, all of these being of course, boys.
Throughout the magazine there were random posters of men idols.
The magazine also contained free gifts, which attracts the reader, but the gifts were a free Pineapple dance bag and also a free huge poster of Zac Effron.

The main things we thought this magazine would contain were correct, however we found it quite strange that it was even more so than we believed. Like the content was so much more girly than we thought.

Pop is most definitely aimed at a girl audience, ages ranging from 11-15.
The magazine clearly identified this.