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This might be the only appropriate time to ask why is he black?
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?
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.
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.
He wears a mask at his shows
is this a new thing? he has the famous (?) smoking drop gif (from a viol live)
I have no idea, ive just seen him live once. Afaik hes always done the mask thing
listen, it's 202~~5~~6, 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?
That's Nightcrawler from the X-Men. Be kind to Kurt - his childhood was a real circus!
He's black, not blue, so Sunspot or Obsidian maybe.
True, although in many of the comics I read in my youth (mostly 1980s) Kurt was depicted as a very dark blue to the point that they made significant amounts of him look black.
One could assume they're slathered in oil to protest the fossil industry, but that would be an assumption.
He's going as one of the creepy guys from Expedition 33.