Media diary-Week 6

Week 6:Guilty pleasures



I am a big fan of country/rock music and sometimes I judge a song before listening to the whole thing, however the album DNA by the girl group Little Mix is on my playlist.
I think that the target audience for this album is teenage girls possibly between the ages of 11-17, who listen to a lot of Pop music. The typical audience member also might have watched this girl group on the X-factor in 2011. The audience member may have been the same age or slightly younger than the singers in the group, who could have possibly related to the singers or seen them as role models.
I believe Little Mix is my guilty pleasure because despite the fact I listen to a lot of country music, I have always secretly been a fan of their music and sing along to their songs if they come on the radio. I am a fan of music where you can hear each individual instrument and most of the songs on this album are made on computers. I think that I listen to this album differently to the usual music I consume because usually I like songs with a lot of meaning that I can relate to and with this album I care less about the lyrics and more about the fast rhythm. I think that when thinking of the Uses and Gratification's Model I think I use this album mainly for Social interaction, I am the only one out of my friends who likes country/rock music so when listening to this album I am able to talk to my friends about it due to them being fans of Pop music.