Thursday, 14 October 2010

Music Magazine Names

Music Magazine Name & Connotations:
·         Heat – ‘hot’ news
·         Now – current news
·         Look – you’ll see what you want to see/easily remembered
·         Instyle -  up to date
·         Glamour – tackier edge/fashionable/clothes off
·         Shout  - loud news
·         Mizz  - teenage/youthful
·         Rolling Stones - music
·         Vogue – high fashion/glamorous/fashion houses
·         Kerrang – guitar term/reflecting sound/font
·         Q – from Men’s quarterly/unisex/opulence/answers/forming a queue/worth 10 points/difficult letter/unique/musical Q
·         Cosmo – 21st century name/handbag size (A5)/diverse content
·         Elle – feminine/for women/French for ‘she’/positive/beautiful
·         NME – changed name/contemporary
·         Woman’s Own – just for women/relevant content
·         Nuts – body/sexuality/outrageous
·         FHM - for him magazine/radio
·         OK – accepted/up to date news/positive
·         Hello – speaking to the reader/
·         Closer – closer to lives of celebrities/relationship
·         Pick me up – easy to pick up/
·         Grazia – posh/glamorous/opulence
·         Tops of the Pops  -only the best music/positive connotations/younger audience/radio + tv show



·         Take a Look – look inside for news/gossip
·         Bella - young beauty/Italian culture
·         Men’s Health – just for men
·         Smash Hits – 70’s phrase/hit music of time/charts
·         Woman’s Weekly – just for women/will have relevance
·         Country Living – information relevant to living in the country/help make your life better
·         Horse and Hounds – upper-class/related to hunting
·         Red – ‘hot’ news/easy name to remember
·         Marie Claire – for women/glamorous sounding/delicate
·         Radio Times – upper class connotations/
·         You  - information just for ‘you’/something everyone will be interested in
·         Bazaar ­ - glamour/opulence connotation
·         Gentlemen’s Quarterly – 4 times a year/
·         Lucky – lucky to be able to read this news
·         Shape – health related/can help, encourage you to get in shape
·         Nylon ­ - fabric of fashion/fashion main contents
·         Vanity Fair – opulent connotations/fashion/upper class women
·         Newsweek ­ - news weekly
·         The New Yorker – a magazine for people living there/relevant topics + information
·         Yorkshire Life  - relevant to readers who live in Yorkshire/improve your life there
·         Good Food  - the magazine will only be relevant/decent/positive connotations
·         Good Housekeeping  -life improvement/self-help/positive connotations
·         Bliss  - positive connotations
·         Diva – attitude/youthful
·         Playboy  -for men/sexual reference
·         Entertainment – energetic/relevant content
·         Empire ­­-  grand/opulent
·         New York – city stories
·         People -  for everyone/about everyone
·         Reader’s Digest – digest information given to the reader
·         Jackie - big sister/for younger audience
·         Forbes ­ ­- upper class connotations/appeals to men/wealth
·         Private Eye – contemporary/political events/view of what is going on/alternative opinion

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