Target Auience of music magazines

Orla-Ruby, the new music sensation has gained the hearts of teenage girls, with her edgy image and catchy songs. Orla walked down the red carpet of her album release with most confidence and showed off her figure by wearing a tight black leather dress, strutting in her louboutin’s. This new star has recently released a new album called ‘Let me tell you’; with her new single ‘Don’t lie’ hitting number one on the charts, after just 24 hours. Everyone is amazed that this girl is only 18 years old, and has the confidence, attitude and style of a new upcoming star-not forgetting her song-writing skills and how her lyrics tell it all. I can hear the teenage girls screaming to find out more and it was the constant questions, which showed that we must chat with this new music sensation.

How are you feeling about the release of your new album?

I’m actually really, really excited about it because to be able to let people hear what I have achieved and what I have accomplished is such an amazing feeling and really excites me. I am a bit nervous because I know that some people won’t like my music and because I am new in this industry I don’t know how people will react to it. A lot of the songs in this album mean a lot to me, and are all to do with personal experiences. It kinda reminds me of a dairy-It’s like giving someone your diary with all your secrets in that you have never shown to anyone before but I think in some ways this will show my personality more-umm but yeah overall I’m really excited to share my music.

Do you have a favourite song from your album?

Yes I do actually, I mean I do love them all and am really pleased with how they have all individually tuned out but my favourite and the one that really stands out to me is a song called ‘Torn’. It’s a song that I had already been working on for ages so to me it’s the song that means the most and the song where the lyrics in my eyes are quite cleverly written. So it’s harder to work out the meaning but I think that this is better because it means that everyone else can interpret the song themselve and maybe link it to things that they have been through.

Who has been your inspiration?

There are many people who have inspired me in different ways. I mean from people who I have seen on the street to famous and iconic figures. I’m that person who writes everything down so if I see something when I’m out that gives me a song idea or something I will just quickly write it down so that I don’t forget. I mean a singer that inspired me is Tina Lewis. She’s a very current and cool singer and her songs are so interesting to listen to. Her albums are quite different. I mean her first album was very pop and upbeat, kind off happy whereas her new album is more rocky and her lyrics are more powerful. I didn’t know which one I preferred so I kind of put the two together, making a pop-rock genre, which is what my new album ‘Let me tell you’ is. So she kind of made me realise that as an artist you don’t just have to stick to one specific genre you can mix it up a bit, which is what you will see in my album.

We have had lots of questions asking about your fashion, what current trends do you wear?

I probably wear denim jackets the most because I just think that they are really easy to just chuck on, and they go with everything. I would say that I have quite an edgy look so I like wearing leather, quite chucky jewellery and I would say that black is one of my main colours that I wear. I wouldn’t say that I’m a “girly girl”, in what I wear more of someone who would wear jeans and a leather jacket rather than a dress but that wouldn’t be to say that I would never ever wear a dress. I mean recently I went to the release of my album event and I wore heels and a black leather dress so I do wear dresses but I wear ones more in my style so like the leather.

How has your music influenced your style?

Well the genre of my music is pop-rock, like my new album so it’s very upbeat and strong so like I said before I have a very edgy fashion lwith some elements of rock. I think that my music is quite loud so I want to create a statement with what I am wearing so I wear quite a lot of black, because it’s very dark and bold. I make sure that my style links in with the songs because I think it is so important. I mean you can’t wear a beautiful, elegant dress when performing rock songs-it just wouldn’t work or give the same effect. To me fashion is a key part in the music industry because I think it shows your personality more and the style of music that you produce.

There are rumours about you starting your own fashion line, is this true?

I knew what would come up (laughing). Well because I have only recently become part of this industry, my publicist wanted me to start something so that I can become better known, so yeah there have been discussions on starting my own fashion line. Since I am so interested in current trends and fashion and design I am extremely drawn to this idea and would be something I would love to do .I don’t know if this will happen right away, because there has only been talk of this and I am currently so busy with the new album and working on new material but I am hoping that this will happen in the future.

It was so nice that we finally got to speak to this new star, who was so sweet and lovely to chat to. This young girl certainly knows it all with her distinctive look and thoughtful answers.

Orla’s new album ‘Let me tell you’ will be released on November 17^th.

Quality of photos

When I started to make my magazine cover I enlarged the photo so that it would cover the whole A4 page. When I did this the photo was very blurry and did not produce a clear and sharp image. This is because I took the photos on my iPhone which is good for taking small images but not for taking large photos. This means that I will have to take the images again because the quality of this photo is not good enough for a magazine cover.

Instead of my iPhone I am going to use an SLR camera as this will produce high quality photos which is what I want and need to produce. I am still going to use all the same poses because when evaluating them I thought that they appealed to my audience and genre of magazine well.