Media Diary Week 3

BADLANDS - Halsey  

In the income/status model the target audience would manly be in people in the people in E. This is because this album, mainly tackles the issues that young teens face in this society. So Halsey is mainly targeting teenagers. For examples the song 'Gasoline' is about finding your self identity within a society that is forcing you to conform into behaving in a particular way so that everything works off the people. This would be and issue that teenagers would face daily about trying to find out who they are and decided themselves what they want to do. 



The ideal consumer of this text would be a female between the ages of 14-19. They would be living with there family and are currently becoming more aware of who they are and creating their own view on how the world is. This is because the songs that Halsey has put into this album tackle issues such as, the music industry, mental health issues, self doubt and many others. This would capture the brains of these teens as they may also be struggling with these issues and by listening to the lyrics and the music representing them, they may be able to relate and feel as if Halsey is helping them in a way that they can come over them.   

The explorer would listen to this album as it challenges the norms of music which are currently in the charts. The lyrics are also quite powerful in a way that they will make the audience think differently about how they see things and how they will feel. Not only does the lyrics break the expectations of what you would expected the actual music creates this atmosphere as if you are in the 'badlands'. Not a lot of music can have the power to put this effect on someone in the music industry in this day in age. For example, the album starts with a song called 'Castle' at the beginning it starts with muffled voices as if you can here what is it going on in her mind. The lyrics also challenge the way that the music industry works. 



The lifestyle category if the target audience could be a drifter or a trendies. This is because in this album there is a mix of different music styles while sticking to one main style at the same time. This would appeal to a drifter as they are not sure about what they want. A trendie may also listen to this because if they start first listening to this new artists with the new sound  in their group other people may start listening as well. This would mean that they would have started a group of people who listen leading them to thank the trendie as they had shown them leading them getting the admiration of the group. This is what the trendie wants.