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• Nicki Minaj’s very pink front cover emblems a very feminine attitude to the album. The name ‘PINK FRIDAY’ themes in with the pink background, costume and appearance.

• Even though the colour pink connotes to a proper, girly, feminine stereotype. The genre of this music actually contradicts this as the music is infact rap.

• It is noticeable that her legs were computer animated or edited digitally as they lack the basic human form.

• It is almost as if it was purposefully edited in this way to portray an image of a ‘Barbie doll’. Again adding to the innocent and feminine theme.

• Also, linking to the Barbie idea, it portrays an image of a ‘perfect, flawless’ model. It conforms to the representation of females wanting to always look perfect. And here, the edited legs are shown and grabs the attention of the viewer.

• The expression on her face is quite ‘shocked’ but is also quite doll-looking. It almost makes her look like a mannequin. Again, this conforms to the idea that females are always wanting to look a certain way – (flawless, perfect etc)

• Her posture on the floor is almost seen as seductive. Her torso is raised and her legs are quite spread out and cover most of the space around her. This conforms to a general representation of females being sexual objects in society.

The wig, the costume and overall appearance is very conforming to the stereotypical albums of the pop culture. From her appearance and the extravagant costume in this album and her facial expressions it suggests something loud, exciting, fast-paced. It can be quite obvious to the audience that her music is of a pop genre.

• This CD cover especially looks like a lot of merchandising of the ‘Barbie’ dolls. The pink is a constant theme throughout this digipak and the image of her on the CD is very resembling to the appearance of Barbie.

• It is very doll like and even her ‘frozen’ facial expression resembles this highly.

• It is seen on many CD’s a print of the artist’s face covering it as well as the album title and artist name stated.

• The colouring of the CD is very simple. Almost all of the digipak is pink and white. It gives a very calm, girly feeling. However, it of course juxtaposes with the true content of the album and the songs.

Here, her posture is very proper and almost elegant. Since her chin is up and she is looking up, it almost resembles the look of royalty – an appearance that resembles importance.

Her body is quite revealing in this costume from her chest and her legs. It again hints on the idea of females being sexual objects and attracts a male gaze.

The pinkness and girliness of the album is appealing to females who are willing to buy this album.

Perhaps her body being on show could be a reason to why males would be interested in Nicki Minaj and buy her album.

‘I’m The Best’ is the first song on the song list. I find that this resembles as a good caption to the photo on the back cover. Her positioning of her hand is very royal-like and suggests her personality resembling authority and importance.

She clearly stands out from the pristine background colours and simplicity of the album covers. The attention is of her throughout this digipak which is seen in most album covers of pop artists.