Album Cover Analysis: Oasis- Be Here Now

Oasis-be Here Now

·      The Mise-en-scene has codes for an upper class life-style, the band has now moved up the social ladder once again.

·      Random items are splayed throughput the area, many of these are very iconic of specific eras and cultures, for instance the scoter in the foreground is code for the ‘Mod’ Lifestyle which the band mimic.

·      The Old red box has a specific date on it, which is the day that the album was released

·      We also see one of the band members with a clock, however the clock has no arms. This codes for the bands belief that their music is and shall be forever timeless.

·      The Rolls Royce In the pool refers to their success and the new rock and roll life style that they now have.

·      We see other references to their previous album ‘Defiantly Maybe’ with one of the band members looking at an old black and white TV, while another is using a periscope to look a globe of Earth.

·      This image of the member looking upon earth codes for the fact that they believe they have now conquered the earth and are above it (which is why he is looking at it through a periscope).

·      A Grammar phone in the foreground is a metaphor for the label that they are currently signed to.

·      The many elements of the album connote how the band is transcendent and somewhat surreal.