Album Cover Analysis

• This is the album cover for ‘Umbrella’ by Rihanna.

• Rihanna is portrayed in a sexual and seductive manner which is factored by several different aspects. She is seen to be wearing very minimal clothing that leaves little to the imagination for the male audience; flaunting tight hot pants, a low cut top and high leather boots that accentuates her bare legs that shine in the camera light and the sexual connotation of her character.

• Rihanna’s posture enforces her feministic figure that allows the audience to see her slim and curvy body, her slender, tanned legs and her breasts that are pushed out towards the camera. The arm that she has behind her head suggests that she is seeking attention and marking her presence within the picture which adds more to the sexual aura that is portrayed.

• The water jetting behind Rihanna in the picture plays reference to the name of the song ‘Umbrella,’ and adds more to this sensual, seductive character that we can see from the picture.

• It can be argued that the album font is of large contrast to the album cover itself, with the name ‘Rihanna’ spelt in big, red and bold letters that stamps her identity and suggests a degree of sophistication and elegance about her character, as opposed to this less glamorous and ‘easy’ alternative we can see of her in the picture.