Bands Image and Genre

Representation is linked to bands and the genre of bands. The way a band is represented in media often decides which genre the band falls into in the music industry. Music magazines such as Kerrang represents bands like paramore, a day to remember and fall out boy. These bands have fallen into the genre “rock” and also “emo.” Kerrang represented these bands as having difficult lyrics, members who play their own instruments and have the occasional screaming in the song. The magazines and the media’s representation of these bands have increased the fans. Without the media the bands wouldn’t be as well known as they are today. The media bring bands to the surface so everybody hears them and gets to know the taste of their music along with there personal opinion of the genre they belong in. The way a band is represented by the media is also based on the image of the band. The way the band dresses, the make-up they wear and there overall image is assessed altogether towards the way that the bands image is represented. The image of a band such as the clothes they wear .e.g. skinny jeans are usually put into a genre such as ‘emo’ or ‘indie’ where as track suit bottoms are classed as ‘chavs’. Also the bands image represents the type of music they’re going to produce. Bands of each genre have a certain image to fit in with there own genre of music, such as singers in the rapping genre wear baggy track suit bottoms or baggy jeans with a t-shirt ten times bigger than their actual size.