Verran Main Artist Profile

The type of artist profile I want to feature in my magazine and on the cover would be a new, young and successful artist. I chose this because I can show gender, youth, age and ethnicity on the cover and build a positive representation of its own through my magazine. I would like the artist to be aged within my target audience because I feel that if I have someone aged around 16-17 it would be the prime artist for my target audiences interest, I'm also going to have my model being a white British female because that's the ethnicity that my main audience will be.

An example of a young successful British female artist would be Cher Lloyd, she's an inspiration to many has she has had to make her way from the bottom to get where she is and it just shows that if she can do it many other people can if they try hard enough. However it contradicts Osgerby's theory that "you don't have to look far to find a bad representation of youth". In any other social situation this would be correct although in the music industry most female pop artists are seen as being a figure to look up to and are well respected. However some of the other music genre's follow his theory and youth are portrayed in a less glamorous and negative way for example; grime, rap and rock.