• IronBird@lemmy.world
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          4 hours ago

          listen, it’s 20256, you got to have a gimmick if you actually want to make it big in anything remotely “mainstream”. you think zoomers have the attention span to just watch someone in a suit sing?

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          6 hours ago

          I have no idea, ive just seen him live once. Afaik hes always done the mask thing

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        13 hours ago

        Thank u for getting the reference but I really want to know. Is this some new acceptable form of blackface? Does he slather putty on himself? Is it a mask?

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          11 hours ago

          Blackface implies caricature. This isn’t attempting to be African American.

          His visual media has quite a bit of this transhumanist stuff showing people made out of different materials, Hate or Glory shows a maniac who gets cast into gold for pleasure.

          Considering he was working with Lady Gaga, who is also known for these extreme runway looks, I would say it was quite appropriate.

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            3 hours ago

            I’m glad you provided a serious answer, because I thought the bottom picture was just a joke and not a reference to an actual person or thing that had happened.

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      12 hours ago

      One could assume they’re slathered in oil to protest the fossil industry, but that would be an assumption.