Postmodern Album covers:

Many album covers nowadays are very postmodern, in terms that they are extremely well used and are therefore, as a homage to the album, have been copied by another genre form that is well known. A well known example of this is the Nirvana album cover which has been copied by the program, The Simpson's with the character Bart Simpson (below). I feel that this postmodern example is more of a homage to the Nirvana album cover, than a parody. I feel that this is the case as "The Simpsons" translation of the album work is not mimicking the baby in the water, but paying tribute to the idea as it is very successful and well known as it does not change the message that the album cover is trying to portray either. Postmodernism of album covers is usually not for a meaningful purpose but just to show the creativity of different forms of media all collaborating together.

The Clash - London Calling

This album cover is also a typical postmodern album cover by the artist, The Clash. This album cover is similar to Elvis Presley's album cover which is a clear example of a postmodern album cover being formed in order to gain the album some recognition to something that is already popular from another well known artist. This is postmodern album cover is a homage to the original Elvis Presley album as "The Clash's" interpretation of the album cover is paying tribute to Presley as it is showing that they want to be musically successful as Presley.

As you can see, the album covers are extremely identical to each other through typical conventions of an album cover. The use of the bubbly font of the artists name gives the album cover a non serious feel to it, contrasting the black and white image of the artist which portrays a serious feel to the cover. The image of the artists is used to portray the artists musicality such as Presley singing with his guitar and the guitarist of the band in The Clash is about to smash his guitar also, showing the similarity of the two albums. Also, the color of the font is unusual as green and pink which do not combine well with each other. However, the purpose of the colour is to make the background stand out from the font, allowing the audience to focus on the iconic picture.

Other album cover examples:

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream and Will Cotton - Cotton Candy Sky

By paying homage to this iconic Katy Perry image, Will Cotton has successfully achieved the portrayal of the "woman in the sky" with his own album cover, showing that he is paying tribute to Katy Perry's image, although it can be seen that they have used it to portray their candy theme, similar to Katy Perry's theme. This postmodern idea is a clear example how postmodernism has taken different media ideas and have implemented it into their own product which can be found in all different types of media such as film.