Case Study
on Piercings
Jayy Von Monroe
Most people tend to think that members of rock, metal
and alternative bands are covered in piercings. But surprisingly, that’s not
true. It’s actually really hard to find someone from that scene that is loaded
with piercings. However, many of them do have piercings. The most common ones
are snakebites, medusas and labrets. Basically, they are examples of .piercings
surrounding the area at the mouth. Among the bands that play rock, metal and
alternative music, the above piercings are more common than the common ear
piercings.
Some examples, are:
Mike Fuentes (Drummer, Pierce the Veil): Medusa and Labret
Chris Motionless (Singer, Motionless in White): gauges, snakebites, vertical labret
Zacky Vengeance (Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals, A7X): snakebites, septum, gauges
Corey Taylor (Singer, Slipknot/Stone Sour): nipples, ears
Ben Bruce (Lead Guitar, Asking Alexandria): spiderbites, gauges .
Mike Fuentes (Drummer, Pierce the Veil): Medusa and Labret
Chris Motionless (Singer, Motionless in White): gauges, snakebites, vertical labret
Zacky Vengeance (Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals, A7X): snakebites, septum, gauges
Corey Taylor (Singer, Slipknot/Stone Sour): nipples, ears
Ben Bruce (Lead Guitar, Asking Alexandria): spiderbites, gauges .
Jayy von Monroe is an electronic/crunkcore band member
from Blood on the Dance Floor. He has snakebites and stretched earlobes,
furthermore, he has nose, ear, tongue and a bridge piercing. He also used to have a dermal on both of his
cheek bones. He has a pierced taint too.
He has the
amount of piercings that are quite expected of heavy metal or rock bands. Among
fandom debates on social medias, such as tumblr and twitter, they are sometimes
used against him during arguments on ‘what a poser’ and other worse insults. However,
they have forgotten that 90% of ‘real’ band members don’t have that many
piercings.
Some details about Blood on the Dance Floor: They are widely hated and 70% of their tumblr tag is all insults and flames. Long story cut short, they had a few really dirty songs that became mainstream, causing people to overlook their meaningful songs, and some random person on the internet called them heavy metal. Since then, Blood on the Dance Floor has been known as a poser in the metal genre.
Some details about Blood on the Dance Floor: They are widely hated and 70% of their tumblr tag is all insults and flames. Long story cut short, they had a few really dirty songs that became mainstream, causing people to overlook their meaningful songs, and some random person on the internet called them heavy metal. Since then, Blood on the Dance Floor has been known as a poser in the metal genre.
In our opinion, Jayy is very misunderstood by many.
It’s not his fault that he is gay etc. He is actually not as tough as he looks.
As a matter of fact, one of my friends in America has met him at one of their
concerts, mentioning that he is friendly.
Many think that people with piercings have major or
minor psychological problems. They feel that people who do piercings on unusual
places of the body or face is due to their suicidal thoughts because many of
the piercings are very painful. As some of them are afraid of committing
suicide, they decided to do piercings that also cause a lot of pain. However,
it is proved to be wrong. Many do piercings just for fun and to look better and
cooler.
Why was Jayy insulted for getting a great amount of piercings, although it is expected of heavy metal or rock bands?
ReplyDelete-Sze Yen
Although the stereotypical views most of us have of rock bands are wild and slightly less civilised, I guess most people are still unwilling to accept/ unadapted to the image of having so many piercings and having them at 'unusual' body parts such as the tongue. However, why are people still uncomfortable with the idea of having piercing at places like the tongue, nose etc.?
ReplyDelete-Celeste
ReplyDeleteThey are probably uncomfortable with the idea of having piercings through places like the tongue as it gives the thought of unbearable pain as compared to the earlobe which is thicker with flesh. They will then find people with such piercings weird as they are willing to go through so much pain just to have another way of accessorizing. In addition, they might take a little time to get used to this strange appearance, which on first impression, looks unappealing to them.
ReplyDelete-Xiang Ting
Then again, why are they willing to go through the pain of piercing through places like the tongue when they can just accessorize with normal earrings, bracelets etc.?
ReplyDelete-Yasmin
Many feel that it is a more unique way accessorizing, and can help to show off their personality more easily, which was gathered from the results from our interviews. Some also feel that it gives off a cool vibe to their appearance.
ReplyDelete-SzeYen
I get what you mean, but it's slightly off my point. Why are they willing to sacrifice and BEAR the pain to get piercings?
ReplyDelete-Yasmin
To further elaborate my point, people do piercings to achieve what i have mentioned above like showing off their personality, is mainly to boost confidence in their own appearance and to atrract attention to them as well. To them, they would probably place self-esteem higher than such sacrifices(the pain along with it), so making a little sacrifice of bearing the pain is okay with them as long as they are able to achieve the results they want.
ReplyDelete-SzeYen
How does getting piercings attract attention from other people to yourself?
ReplyDeleteFor more common piercings like earlobe piercing, when accessorizing with earrings, it is appealing to other people in terms of your appearance and thus attracts attention. However, for more unusual piercings like tongue piercings, it attracts people in a way that because they are not used to such kind of image, and find it weird, so they tend to focus on the more uncommon piercings.
ReplyDelete-Celeste