Motionless In White – Infamous album cover analysis I’m going to analyse Motionless in White’s special edition album (far left), Infamous, released in September 2012. The 10-panel digi-pack is fronted by the image above on the left. It shows Chris Motionless, the lead singer of the band looking into a smashed mirror, connecting to Andrew Goodwin’s music video theory where he states there is continued references to the notion of looking in shots. However, it also goes against Goodwin’s theory that this could relate to the vanity of stars because the mirror is smashed which suggests he doesn’t like what he sees. The cover itself is very dark, dramatic and gothic which reflects the genre of music on the album. The key signifier on the album is ‘INFAMOUS’ written across the mirror in bright red. It looks as though it has been scratched on in anger because the writing is very messy and this makes it difficult to know what is says towards the end of the word. ‘INFAMOUS’ stands out because it completely contrasts the dark background – the band may have wanted it to be the first thing people see as it is the name of the album and very important. The red might connote blood. We can see the man holding a raven, a very gothic symbol and can be intertextually linked to Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, ‘The Raven’. This is representing a symbolic code for darkness, secrets, evil and a foreboding sense of doom. Therefore the image could connote destruction; that something bad is going to happen. The inside of the digi-pack shows the other members of the band but their faces are indistinguishable because of the black and blue lines coming out from the middle of the pack. This fits in with the front cover because we do not see Chris Motionless’ face as he has his back to the camera. The lights around the edge of the mirror indicate stardom and something we see in films back stage at a theatre or pageant, therefore this can be linked to the vanity of stars in Goodwin’s theory.