Spin magazine music analysis

I decided to look at the music magazine 'Spin' as I was intrigued by the genre varieties presented in the different issues. The magazine is able to adapt its style to cater for the opposing genres due to its simplistic style and versatility.
Other than the masthead, the colour scheme is back and white, injected with colours to match the cover stars music style. However, the fonts and colour blocking used portrays power, suggesting those on the cover possess confidence and strength as an artist.
On the first magazine cover, Haley Williams, the rock band 'Paramore's' lead singer stands in a aggressive stance to mirror the control and power of the magazine style. Also, her clothing matches the general black and white theme leaving her hair to inject the colour. By doing this, the attention is drawn to her and focus' on her as an artist but also highlights her simplistic beauty with her fair skin connotation innocence to contrast her fiery hair colour. Therefore, although her stance is in agreement with her fiery hair colour, the cover line 'Sexy doesn't have to be tan, blonde girl showing off her goodies' shows her classy demeanour and lady like intentions.
The second magazine is a completely contrasting genre and personality. The artist on the cover shows a quirky side to herself through the use of clashing bright colours along with a stance to provide 'attitude.' Her two tone lipstick could connotate different sides of her personality; orange to connotate the fiery, outgoing side whilst pink the feminine, fashionable side. The edgy clothing and pose, create an immediately recognisable image that reveal many aspects of her personality as well as possible music style before even knowing the artist well.
Both artists show confidence and power through their use of direct address and determined facial expressions along with the previously discussed aspects.
My reasons for analysing Spin magazine is because I wanted to explore how the magazine manipulated its style to support each genre and which I felt worked best.
Although both magazines are successful in their suitability for the genre, I think the powerful blocking and fonts work best along side the rock genre of 'Paramore' whilst the 'rap/hip hop' genre would be better suited to a brighter, edgier layout.