Article Research

I have decided to do a Interview for my double page spread article, so I am going to do my article

research on music magazine Interviews.

This double page spread Interview from NME is quite different and I like that, as in the title it says „The

Gospel According to Nicki Minaj‟ In the interview there are 6 very noticeable sub sections which title

different gospel titles that Nicki Minaj has said. Then under this, you can read the questions NME asked to

do with this section. This is quite interesting and different, however It makes the interview more personal

as you get to know Nicki Minaj‟s beliefs and what she feels. It is a very honest and open interview which I

think Nicki Minaj fans and music fans would like to see as that‟s what a lot of the public want about

celebrities, interesting gossip and personal information. The way the questions are asked and presented

are very casual and It is very much like hearing a conversation with someone as the questions are merged

in with the normal text, with just a bold text used to show when it‟s the interviewer.

The six sub sections

to do with the ‘Nicki

Minaj Gospel’

1.If thou is born with it,

thou is born with it.

2.Thou shalt walk tall.

3.Thou shalt keep it

clean.

4.Thou shalt be what

thee sayeth

5.Thou shall not get

caught.

6.Thou shall remember

what thou has to lose

Some questions asked

in the interview

“Before you had even

released a proper single in

the states you could buy

Nicki Minaj magazines in

the newsagents”

“For an artists who hasn’t

even released an album

that’s pretty insane, isn't it?”

“Did you get arrested?”

“So when you were rapping

about lewder stuff, It was

because you felt you had

too?”

This double page spread Interview is from the magazine Q, I think the magazine are trying to portray a quite

laid back theme with the photos as it looks like he's at home in the picture on the left and a home recording

studio on the right. This interview is quite different to the traditional Interview layout, I think this because all the

text is put into one big collection of words in the columns and in the text there is no way of sensing questions

being asked its like the publisher of this article asks his questions by writing them in the article like a question

talking to the reader but then Brandon Flowers actually does answers it, the writer and Brandon talking Is all

spread and changes throughout the text. It is very chilled out and I think the way the text is layout is good as it

produces a flowing and easy to read interview.

Questions from

the Interview

“Isn’t he

concerned

about sounding

a bit preachy?”

“The question is

will the other

Killers feel the

same”

“He seems to

have no clue of

when they will

re-group”

It is hard to get

the questions

from the

magazine as they

aren’t question

like, they do not

say simple

questions, they

are formatted as if

the writer is

telling you

information about

Brandon Flowers

and then Brandon

will reply to the

infomation the

writer puts as if a

question has

been asked.

This double page spread Interview, Is from the popular rock magazine Kerrang! This is quite a traditonal and

expected layout for an Interview, this works well as it is very easy to see where the questions are and where the

answers are, this makes it easy to read. It also means its quite well pulled together and proffesional looking. I

like the way it is laid out as even though Kerrang! Is normally quite messy and jam packed, this is quite

organised and formal with yet the rock look still having an impact on the article.

Questions from

the interview:

“Is it hard

maintaing a

sense of style on

tour?”

“So whats your

secret?”

“Is image

important for

rock stars?”

“Does Davey

Havok ever have

a casual Friday?”

“What defines a

rock star?”

“When you were growing up “Twitter gives fans a direct link

Who represented the ideal to stars, do you think its

Of rock stardom to you?” important to keep an air of

mystery?”

“Do you think

the current

obsession with

celebrity gossip

will ever

subside?”

“Has the

internet led to

the death of the

rock star?”

I decided to try and look for music magazine interviews online rather then just reading them and getting pictures. I went onto mojo‟s website where they specifically had a section for the Interviews they have done for their music magazines. The ones I focused on the most as I want to stick to this sort of theme is „Q&A‟ as this is the stereotypical base for an interview. For an example I have decided to examine the interview „Eleanor Friedberger Comes Into Her own‟ I like the way this Interview was held as it was personal but had a formal and classic organisation, which made it easy to read and made it look professional.

http://www.mojo4music.com/546/eleanor-friedberger-comes-into-her-own/

Link to article

Questions from Interview

“Describe the view out of the window?” “What's the best thing about playing shows in the UK?”

“Im envious of your Wurlitzer electric piano. Does it sound beautiful?” “We asked you to pick your favourite

current music clip on the internet, and“You‟re playing the UK August you chose Van Morrison, doing Warm 29-September 3. Tell us about your love in 1974”group”

“As requested, you‟ve sent a picture -“Whats your favourite album sleeve of actually, several pictures – of yourAll time?” immediate environment”

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/search/interview - This is the link to the web page for the video Interviews that NME hold for their celebrities, even though my interview is going to be printed It was useful to watch some of these to see what sort of questions were read out to the celebrities and how they were held.

http://issuu.com/nmemagazine/docs/nme-21-september/12?e=5942028/4873493 - This link is to one of the issues of NME magazine, It lets you go through some of the articles that were in that issue which gives you a range of different interviews, however they are mixed in with other articles like reviews, but it shows you how they were layout and the language and text.

http://www.mojo4music.com/5282/inside-woodstock-with-organiser-michael-lang/ - This is a link to an interview done by MOJO magazine, It is a 'Q&A' article and this is what I am going for with my magazine.

I continued to look for more article‟s produced other then in magazine‟s as I wanted to widen my range of research and aid

myself when coming to interviewing my band for my magazine. I then decided to look on the magazine NME website because this

magazine would have been my main competitor If my magazine was produced, as I have stuck to the same sort of style and age range. I

also looked at the magazine Mojo as I like the way that magazine looks and the style of their double page spreads and interviews.