Rihanna's body langauge within this image portrays power and dominance. The close-up shot makes the image the most dominant aspect of the album cover, and the bright white background contrasts against the image in order to make it stand out further. Rihanna's head is slightly tilted downwards, however her eyes are staring upwards and directly into the camera, which creates a level of intensity. Riahnna's lips are painted red in order to portray her edgy nature and her sexuality. Her hand is placed upon her head in order to allow us to see that her nails are also painted red, but more importantly, to allow us to visualise the tattoo that spells out the name of her album.
'Talk That Talk' is the sixth studio album released by Rihanna. The album was released this month (November, 2011). Talk That Talk debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling more than 160,000 copies in its first week. With the album and her first single released from the album, 'We Found Love' both at number one during the same week, it made Rihanna the only female artist in the UK to simultaneously have a number one single and album twice in the same year a different album and single. The album was released by Rihanna's record label 'Def Jam Recordings'.
The audience of this particular album will be fans of Rihanna, and therefore fans of the hip-hop genre. This particular album is a slightly edgier take on the music normally produced by Rihanna, and I therefore think that the age range of those who would buy and listen to the album will be slightly old than those who bought her previous albums; possibly 17-24.
This album cover represents sexuality and stereotypes of the hip-hop genre. Rihanna's overall expression presents a suggestive nature, through the way in which she has her tongue slightly sticking out of her mouth in order to make it seem as though she is licking her lips, which is a fairly provocative action. The tattoo on her arm, teamed with the several rings upon each of her fingers represent stereotypes of the hip-hop genre. People often associate this genre with tattoo's and lots of thick, mostly gold, jewellery in order to represent wealth and success. In the top left hand corner of the cover is Rihanna's recognised logo 'R'. The letter is obviously used due to it being the first letter of her name, and is written in an edgy text, pointy and sharp, to link with the content of the album and the image upon the cover.
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