Case Study on Piercings
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera is an American singer-songwriter and television personality. During her first decade in the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture.
Christina Aguilera has five piercings in her ears and one
piercing each in her nose, her lower lip, her right nipple, her eyebrow, her
naval. She also has, as
quoted, “A diamond stud in her most intimate place”. She claimed that she got
all those piercings as she was rebellious. She,
however, took out all her piercings except for the one in her right nipple and a few others, as
she felt she had no need for them. Her piercings reportedly caused a security
alert at an American airport after setting off alarms.
By removing her piercings, she might have known the harms of
piercings. She has also claimed that she did the piercings as was rebellious
then. To her, she might think that piercings hurt a lot so she decided to take
it off and maybe she felt that it looks really unappealing to her audience.
Furthermore it is not easy to accessorize with piercings.
Since Christina Aguilera felt that there was no need for so many piercings, why did she still went ahead with piercing so many of her body parts?
ReplyDelete- Xiang Ting
Like she mentioned, Christina admitted that her reason for having so many piercings was because she was rebellious in her teenage years.I think that it might also be because of peer pressure. Her friends probably were interested in getting piercings, or had them, thus she decided to get it too as she only heard about the pros of piercings and how nice it would appear.
ReplyDelete-Celeste
Since you said that piercings appeared nice so she went ahead with the piercings, do you mean that she expose herself to people or admires her piercings at intimate places or those parts of her body herself which people would not reveal?
ReplyDelete-Sze Yen
Christina Aguilera probably wanted to try out things that people usually would not go for to show that she is daring to try new things, especially when it involves doing something (alteration) to one's body. But does she mean that she did not check out on the cons and risks of piercings before getting it? Wouldn't she be risking her health or life if anything goes wrong, such as chemicals which she is allergic to being applied onto her body for piercing purposes?
ReplyDelete-Yasmin