Azealia Banks: Elina star image

Azealia Banks is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Banks has been praised by her "remarkable" rapping speed. In regards to her musical style, Banks has frequently been noted for the use of profanity in many of her songs. This builds on what Dyer refers to as an essential component of star image that of rebellion and anti-authoritarianism and links in with how we would like to present the star image of our artist Elina. 

Azealia is a strong independent woman who appears to do what she wants. Her image is that of someone who is somewhat confrontational, her lyrics convey her ambiguous sexuality and draw on another component of Dyer's theory, that of sexuality in an artist. Although we are not too concerned with representing an ambiguity, we still want are artist to have a sexual element that is going to appeal to our target audience. 

Since writing "212," Banks has adopted an alter-ego named "Yung Rapunxel." This alter-ego was adapted from Banks referring to herself as Rapunzel, due to a longweave she wore while working at Starbucks as a teenager. Banks discussed this with Rolling Stone saying, "Yung Rapunxel is that girl who pisses people off but doesn't really mean to. She's actually a sweetheart! But people are so taken aback that she's so herself; she's not even trying to be unique or different. 

The way in which we will create Elina's star image will be similar to how Dyer's theory explains Azealia Banks. We will portray Elina to be an independent, sassy woman, who does not let anybody get in her way. There is an element of profanity in Elina's image, and Dyer saw this as an essential component in what makes Banks, this highlights the similarities between them. Secondly, although the song that Elina is singing is not a rap song, it has an element of the singing pace rap includes, so this relates Elina to Azealia even more as they both sing the same style of music.

Elements of Banks' 'Yung Rapunxel' video are similar to things that we would like to incorporate in Elina's music video. The evident lack of colour in this music video is the same as what we have planned for our video, as this adds to the bizarreness of the video. Secondly, the weird elements, like in the first image, are very similar to things we want, as this would effectively show the audience that you are in a completely different place, such as limbo.