Pixie Lott - Music Magazine Representations

Seems as Pixie Lott was the inspiration for myself and my group to create our artist "pixie mix" I thought that I shoudl condusct some rsearch has to how Pixie herself is represented in both music magazines and normal ones. I will look at her clothes, make up etc and hopefully this will give me enough inspiration for when it comes to making my own music advertisement but using Elle and "Pixie Mix".





FHM magazine
FHM magazine is a typical "lads mag" that focuses on page 3 girls, football and gadgets etc. However, this iamg eon the right hand side which i found using the search engine "Google" is a special "Music Issue" and so this is why they have chosen to put Pixie Lott on the front cover.


On this front cover Pixie Lott is posing very seductively. She is wearing small almsot none existant black hot pants with what appears to be an electric blue bar/boob tube. This is wear Pixi completley goes against the steroetype that poeple giver her of her being an "innocent" and "angelic" 19 year old who is a "pretty in pink" pop princess I woudlnt want to advetise her like this on my music advertisement as I think it will compeltely attract the wrong audience.


Sugar - Teen Magazine
This image is much more typical of Pixie Lott. Having her hair lose in natural curls accompanied with natural make up along with a pretty summer dress, this is wear she adhearing much more to her sterotype of being a "young, innocent and pop princess".


This is more as to how I would like to pose Elle on my magazine advertisenment, I love the fact that she is smiling and looking directly at the camera. (this is known as "The Gaze"). I think if I did this on my music advertisement, the buyers of the album will be "drawn in" more as the artist is looking directly at them.
I prefer the "natural" look and I definaltely think this is a must when it comes to the styling of Elle (who is playing Pixie Mix) for my album advertisement.





Q - Music Magazine
Here is a photo shoot and 4 page article in the quirky rock magazine "Q". here again, Pixie Lott is posing secutively and isn't weasring much in the form of clothes. The knee high leather boots and the fact that she is dressed all in black and pictures posing liek this on teh side of a motor bike automatically sends out a message to the people reading this magazine.

Her hair is flowing and making her appear "sexy". In some ways, sex appeal is good but in some ways it can send out an innaporopriate message as this isn't the "real" pixie Lott, she has simply been made to look liek this for the appeal of the magazine and the situation she is in for the photo shoot. I defiantley wont be imitating any of this in my own music advertsiement, apart form the hair, I like the way it looks like it's flowing in the wind.



French Pop Magazine



Here Pixie Lott is posed in what seems the most natural i have seen in all of the magazines I have looked at. Her hair is straightened with slightly lose curls, and her make up is very natural which I think looks better than when she has a lot of make up on as I think the "natural" look fits her overall image and genre of her music more.

Here she is wearing something that doesn't usually 'fit' with her image that she usually portrays but I think this may have something to do with it being for a French magazine rather than a British one.

Album/Track List

Now that I have an actual idea of what I want to appear on my digi-pack design, I thought ti would be time to think about the names of the tracks that will appear on my album. Having looking at Pixie Lott's album, here is a list of her songs:

1) Mama do (uh oh uh oh)
2) Cry me out
3) Band aid
4) Turn it up
5) Boys and Girls
6) Gravity
7) My love
8) Jack
9) Nothing compares
10) I wish I was there
11) The way the world works
12) Hold me in your arms

So, looking at the names of her tracks, I thought I woudl do very similar names, but make them my own. Here is what I have come up with:

1) Papa Don't (mm hmm mm hmm)
2) Drown me in your tears
3) A & E
4) Pulse
5) Guys and Dollz
6) Space
7) Emotions
8) Tommy
9) Reflections
10) Wish I was there
11) Around the World
12) Don't Let go
13) the debut single - Broken Arrow

Research and Planning

As i got in from school today, on MTV they were showing "the best of Pixie Lott" and seems as this is our chosen artist I decided to watch it. I liked seeing the variation of shots, colour, mise en scene etc that Pixie uses in each video. A lot of her songs have a hidden message within them, particularly the one we chose, "broken arrow".

Most of her songs are upbeat and happy songs and so bright colours and costumes are used to reflect the mood of the song. However, "cry me out" is a much sadder song and so the video is completely in black and white. I love the way it doesn't use any colour at all and I think this really portrays the emotion of the song well.

After watching this music video, I have decided that I think we should use all black and white as it fits the mood of the song and I think, overall, will make the music video look more professional.

Changed brand name

Seeing as we changed our song, we have to change our band brand. To fill out our meeting log, over the Christmas Holiday's while everyone was seeing family, we used the social networking site Facebook to discuss our ideas. We decided to call our band brand Pixie Mix or Pix 'n' Mix. The idea is taken from a mix of our artist Pixie Lott, which gives it the pop vibe, and also sounds a lot like Pick and Mix sweets. We thought that this was a connotation of pop music and decided that it had a certain 'ring' to it.

Pixie Lott

With the chosen song being now from Pixie Lott rather then Example, I am having to do some artist research on her so that when it comes to interpretating her in our music video, we have the right style/image/mise en scene as to what she would have, but at the same time, making it unique and our own.

Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott (born 12 January 1991) is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. Her debut single "Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)" was released in June 2009 and went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart. Lott is often credited for her live performances and style. Lott appeared as a guest judge on The X Factor, covering for the pregnant Dannii Minogue.
Lott was born in Bromley, south-east London. Her mother gave her the nickname Pixie because she was "such a tiny, cute baby who looked like a fairy". She started singing in her church school and when she was five she attended the Italia Conti Associates Saturday school in Chislehurst, she went onto the main school at 11 Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts where she was awarded a scholarship. At the age of 13, Lott moved with her family to Brentwood. During her time as a student she appeared in the West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium, and in BBC One's Celebrate the Sound of Music as Louisa von Trapp

Pixie Lott - Factfile

Birth Name - Victoria Louise Lott
Stage Name - Pixie Lott
D.O.B - 12th January 1991 (age 19), Bromley, South London
Origin - London, England
Genre - Pop, soul, electro-pop, dance-pop, R'n'B
Occupation - Singer, songwriter, dancer
Instrument - Vocals/Piano's
Year's Active - 2006-present
Labels - Mercury/Interscope
Website - www.pixielott.com