Feminism in a music magazine is all about the main image on the front and how they are show as as an artist or weather they are coming across for the woman's body's. They are shown to look attractive to give off a successful magazine.
Men are different than women on the covers because with men they show more of the musical side of them and do not care about the attractive side of them.
Woman are seen as housewives providing help and support for men because men refer to women as a sex object. This is a social system where the male has a higher class status over women. Media suggests that this is true and makes there authority higher as women are not show for there talent. They suggest that there status is higher and portray there roles over woman. On the cover above there are no signs of music. Cheryl Cole has no other purpose on the cover but to show her sexual side.
Beyond woman being treated as sex objects, the image above of Beth Ditto lead singer of Gossip feels the need to show of her body on the front of the NME magazine to prove that not all woman are put on magazines to be seen as sex objects but are put on for there talent and to change the feelings of feminists opinions and views towards woman today. She believes that you don't have to look attractive to be on the cover of a music magazine.
On the cover above is Biffy Clyro, we immediately show our attention to Simon Neil (the middle main singer/guitarist) hugging the guitar. This shows his love for music and what he does. We see the group together with the guitar where as on the Cheryl Cole cover at the top we are focused on her beauty and attraction, not on her musical talent!
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