You most likely know Måneskin. Even if you have not voluntarily listened to their music, you almost certainly noticed their efficiency eventually yr’s VMAs, and even their Eurovision look again in 2021.
At this level, the Italian rock band might be simply as well-known for his or her eccentric sense of favor, each on stage and the purple carpet — we’re speaking garters, plenty of eye make-up, and so forth. Look on the image beneath, you get the deal.
Two of the band’s members — Victoria De Angelis and Ethan Torchio, the primary and third individuals from the left on this photograph — establish as members of the LGBTQIA+ group. The different two, Damiano David and Thomas Raggi, establish as straight.
Apparently, Damiano and Thomas have been accused of queerbaiting on account of their very own fashion selections — a subject that the band addressed in a latest interview with the Guardian.
“There are some cases where it happens, but sometimes [the accusations are] so extreme,” Victoria mentioned. “It’s stupid for queer people, who should fight these stereotypes, to label it as this and create more hate.”
“The fact [that Raggi and David] are straight doesn’t mean they can’t wear makeup. Or heels.”
Damiano added that his and Thomas’s private expressions of favor are incessantly influenced by their queer-identifying bandmates. “Everything me and Thomas do is always filtered by two people who are [queer],” he mentioned. “Of course we don’t experience the same stuff, but we live every day very closely with people from the community.”
Damiano additionally identified that they’ve acquired backlash from individuals in Italy because of their fashion selections. “We’ve always been very dividing. There are a bunch of people that love us and are very proud of what we’re doing, and then there’s a whole other part made of conservatives and traditional rock’n’roll fans and fascists that hate us with everything they’ve got.”
In quick, it looks as if Måneskin are gonna preserve doing their factor, and it does not appear to be there’s something fallacious with that. We’ll see what they rise up to subsequent!
Read all the interview right here.