Mika’s Life in Cartoon Motion Michael Holbrook Penniman, also known as Mika, is a pop male singer artist and a songwriter. He began his debut as a singer with his album entitled, Life in Cartoon Motion in 2007. I chose this album cover because it’s eye-catching with its colorful image. It’s important to review and analyze the visual design of this album cover by focusing on different points of it. Such as the genre of the music, the image and color on the album cover, the representation of it, and the target audience of the album. In his debut album, Life in Cartoon Motion, Mika set all of his song to be a pop genre.
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Just like a common pop artist’s album cover, no guns or parental advisory sticker, his album is filled with excessive amounts of color and image on the front and backsides. It makes the audience recognize his album even if they look from the backside. On the front of his cover, there are many colorful, cartoon-like characters and images as well as a tiny image of Mika himself. A list of the songs in the album, the official website, and the credits are also available on the backside of the album. This is essentially to give himself publicity and allow listeners to get to know him better.
There are many important images shown on the front of the cover. The flamboyant imagery really stands out. Mika’s album cover is very interesting and eye-catching because he uses random color on it. Also, there are various colorful articles such as a TV, sofa, flowers, grand piano, and bird. These random things are placed in spots all over the place. It is almost looks like a drawing paper of a kindergarten student. He made the colors and all of the images look like a cartoon, which is related to the title of his album, Life in Cartoon Motion.
There is a picture of the album’s artist, Mika, near the bottom left of his name on the cover art. Even though it is small, it’s dominant and attracts the viewer’s attention because it’s in sepia. So, it will be the second image that audience will see after his name. Therefore, with this colorful album cover, Mika tries to tell the audience that his music is relaxed, bright, and full in dynamic. On the cover of the image of Mika is only half of his body. He is wearing a shirt and his hair is in a mess. The color of his picture is combination of grey and brown, which results more like sepia.
It makes Mika look similar to the other occupant of his cartoon world. Additionally, there is a man who is relaxing on the couch, a piano flying on the sky, flowers in many colors, arrows all over the place, a little girl playing with his doll, and many clouds in an assortment of shades. All of images displaying a relaxed, laid back feel of music. Overall, the icons display having fun with life which describe the craziness of Mika’s life before he become famous where he has to move from Beirut to France, and then finally London as written on the album cover booklet.
The representation of an album cover will be the fifth point on this essay. Mika is a pop singer artist, which fits with the cover. There are many random arrows, which I feel represent life and the message trying to be displayed is that you can do anything with your life. Also, there are positive figures such as birds, flowers, rainbow, and clouds, which represent that life is great as it is, but becomes even more wonderful with his music.
There is also a piano flying on the sky which representing his songs are melodic and vibrant. As one can see from the album cover, it is assumed that the album is for everyone who wants to relax and makes his or her day wonderful. I can say that this album cover is for every age range with no limitations. This can be interpreted by the cover, which has a man sitting on a couch, a woman who looks like she’s having a party, and a little girl who is sitting and holding her doll.
People will buy this album because they not only want to know what kind of music is behind this wonderful and colorful cover, but also because the colorful album really catches a viewer’s eye making them want to buy the album for a brighter day. In conclusion, Mika’s album cover is very inviting and striking because his album cover is colorful and lively. Not only children that will be interested, but also teenagers and parents as well. With his name in modern, big, and bold styled writing, people will know whose album they are buying.
