Pussycat Dolls Album Cover Deconstruction

Pussycat Dolls - Doll Domination

Front

• One main image - Long Shot, slightly low angle
• On motorbikes on a road
• Posed in a powerful way - emphasising 'domination'
• Background is lots of famous landmarks - silhouetted and faded
• Each bike has the initial of their first names - fans will know their names and therefore recognise this
• Road is painted with different names of cities - taking over the world and enforcing 'domination'
• Girls are central and biggest thing on the cover - selling them as they are most important
• Dominant colours are nautical - showing power and sexiness
• Pussycat Dolls logo at the top of the album between the two words of the title - shows importance of them and are selling them as a band
• Bold but simple font - focus on the image and band logo rather than the font
• White font on red banner continuing the nautical theme
• Directly addressing the camera - flirting with the camera and enticing people to buy the album
• Title acts as a headline for the image and anchors it well - small in comparison
• Very little clothes - provocative nature and iconic sexy image of the band
• Midriff's on show - showing off their dancers body and using it to sell the album
• Nicole Scherzinger in the middle showing she is the most important
• It is a cover where girls aspire to be like them and men fantasise over them - using their sexuality and perfection to sell the album
• Typical 'perfect' girl group image with hair blowing, full makeup, perfect bodies, fashionable clothing - mainstream

Back

• Black, red and white are main colours - connect back and front and are nautical theme again
• Song numbers are in red and titles in black distinguishing between the numbers and titles of the song
• The titles of the songs are in bold and any collaborations are in lower case - importance of title over collaboration artists
• Main image is central and takes up most of the space - band are the most important things and will sell the album
• Main image is of the band posing on a bar - long shot and slight low angle
• Very little, sexy clothing - iconic of the band and using their perfect bodies and sexiness to sell the album and promote the band image
• Posing in flexible positions - iconic of the band and drawing on the dancers side of the band in order to sell it
• Nicole Scherzinger is central showing she is the most important
• Same road is used in the image showing a link between the back and front covers
• Directly addressing the camera again - enticing in the audience
• Using the fact that girls will want to be like them and guys will want to be with them in order to promote the artist
• Bar code on the right hand side
• Bold and simplistic font - does not draw attention away from the main feature, the band
• Fashionably clothed, full makeup, perfect hair, perfect bodies - typical mainstream girl group
• Institutional information is small in comparison to the other information - insignificant in comparison to the band as that is what is selling the album

Spine

• Name of the band
• Title of the album
• Both take a central position as these are the most important things as that is what audiences will look for when looking for albums that have been stacked away
• Same bold, simple font tying it in with the covers
• Same cream background used tying it in with the covers
• Serial number and record label in smaller font at either end - not as important but still needed on the spine
• Very simplistic compared to the rest of the album cover - just tells basic information as it is needed to do the job quickly