Album Name: American Idiot
Artist/Band: Green Day
Released: 21/09/2004
Green Day, an american famous punk rock band released their seventh studio album "American Idiot" in late 2004. This front cover album which consists of three main colours, red white and black amplifies the theme of anger and rage. Red is a colour of passion, unity and love but at the same time could also be seen as a colour of rage, destruction and bloodshed, whereas white could be used to represent peace and tranquillity, the blackground consists of black, which allows the contrasting colours to stand out more, although the black background could be argued that it creates a sense of loneliness aswell.
A bleeding heart customized to look as if it is a grenade held in a white cartoon silhouette hand is what grabs this album cover attention. An unusual image of a heart shaped as a grenade, a symbol of love and peace that is 'shelled' to pose as a weapon of destruction could be used to portray a story of love vs hate.
The cartoon hand that is holding this "Love grenade" can also be interpreted to represent love as a weapon to cause destruction in the wrong hands. In relation to the title of the album "American Idiot" (written in a deterated font to show broken letters; chaos, out of order) - which implies a person from a wealthy nation being unwise and therefore possibley a strong relation between the "Love Grenade" and the "American Idiot" can be foreseen on the front cover of this album, enevitebely the contents of the album are then anticipated; a confused, love and hate story.
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