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
56, 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.
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He’s going as one of the creepy guys from Expedition 33.
One could assume they’re slathered in oil to protest the fossil industry, but that would be an assumption.
Gesaffelstein is hardly a pop culture figure, though; I don’t think many gen-z kids know him. But he’s an absolute icon of the 2010s dark techno scene.
The Conspiracy singles were legendary. My Conspiracy Pt. 1 record has a More Cowbell joke on it, which I love. Weird record though, it’s 33 1/3 on one side and 45 on the other. And it doesn’t say that anywhere on the record, so it took me years before realizing I was listening to a slowed down Hatred. I kinda love the slowed down version, funny how that happens :P
Gesaffelstein goes hard, I agree.
I kinda love the slowed down version, funny how that happens :P
Day Man!
Gesaffelstein
Gesundheit!
Viele Dank
Yes, many dank!
If you’re curious, this actually comes from the word Gesamtkunstwerk
Huh, interesting.
I know some German so I understand what “Gesamtkunstwerk” is because the Finnish word for it is probably just a direct translation of the German one – “yhtenäistaideteos” (yhtenäis+taide+teos), loosely translatable as “unified work of art”
I’m in my fifties, but I’m still hip to what’s groovy. I know the name of the big artists. Uh … Wet Ass Pussy. The uh, those monitor head brothers … Around the World. Um … Billy Eyelash. The uh … the K-Pops!
Don’t forget Justin the Beaver.
Daft Punk died 5 years ago
Idk if I’d call Gesaffelstein a celebrity. Also Gesaffelstein is fucking awsome? Do people not know Gesaffelstein? Serious. If you don’t know now you know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRSijEW_cDM&list=RDoRSijEW_cDM&start_radio=1
You’re welcome.
I heard of Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein! /s
A cropped version of this video was my introduction to Gesaffelstein.
woah, i watched most of the thing before i realized the birds are bobbing out of time with the music, a bit faster, if they didn’t switch the frames are realign they’d be completely out of phase several times.
Lol
Definitely one of the most impactful music videos I’ve seen, this is why I know who Gesaffelstein is
Agreed, its pretty jarring.
No clue who this is. I thought you’d comment was a joke, but no idea.
As a Gessafelstein fan I am so surprised anyone knows who he is, hell I barely know who he is
Thats me since like… ever? I never really cared about the whole celebrities spiel
You might just be a millennial.
Know the signs.
Even when I knew who the person was, I never memorized names anyway…
He’s been around for a while now so they must be pretty old or weren’t into the dance music craze of the 2010’s
I am them then.
They are also in gta5 soulwax fm
So say we all.
There was a dance music craze in the 2010s?!? I thought everyone was listening to Fleshgod Apocalypse!
No, everybody was listening to Rhapsody of Fire (formerly Rhapsody)
Hey, now, I remember Party Rock! That was the only dance song of the 2010’s, right?
Mid 30 is pretty old?
If you feel old. Otherwise probably the latter.
ITT old people shaking their fist at the sky
I miss the good old days of non-political music like Rage Against the Machine
The top comment on this thread is frying me. Literally the most stereotypical “kids these days” comment I’ve ever read.
I was like who’s this guy and opened up his songs. The track Opr is in Cyberpunk 2077 and I love it so I guess I’m a Gesundheit fan now. His mask also reminds me of Lizzy Wizzy, which is cool.
Playing or talking about Cyberpunk 2077 is a sin against our transgender lord and saviour Jesus Christ. He and Eve don’t deserve the way CDPR commercialises trans bodies.
Wat
why is that?
it could be worse, he’s at least worked with a lot of people i do know of
Mike Lévy (born 24 June 1985), known professionally as Gesaffelstein (German: [ɡəˈzafl̩ʃtaɪn]), is a French music programmer, DJ, songwriter and producer from Lyon. Often called the “Dark Prince of Techno”,[1][2] he has worked alongside artists such as Lady Gaga, the Weeknd, Daft Punk, Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, Electric Youth, Haim, Miss Kittin, the Hacker, Jean-Michel Jarre, Lil Nas X, Charli XCX, Pharrell Williams and Chuck Ellis.
I had to read all the comments before I believed this was an actual artist and not a photo of a mannequin placeholder.
Yeah the first time I can remember hearing a celebrity’s name and not knowing who they were, I was six. Another kid on the playground was telling Me about Michael Jackson and I hadn’t heard of him before. Kids these days.
This is on purpose. Kids can’t like the same things as their parents. They have to look for things their parents are against to feel rebellious and independent. For my generation it was nu metal. My mother was used to nice, elegant men wearing suits and considered any artist with esthetics rougher then Julio Iglesias as ‘not nice’. So we had Korn, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson and other weirdos. We had violence and gore to shock our parents and can’t be shocked with that so kids today have overly ‘erotic’ artists like Cardy B. ‘Look ma, I’m listening to an ex stripper. You don’t like that, right?’. Musically our artists were too aggressive for our parents and kids today have rap which for me sounds simply boring. And that’s fine, that’s by design. If my generation was into those artists kids wouldn’t like them. Of course the biggest artists are the ones that manage to span generations like Taylor Swift but that’s for non-rebellious part of society that just likes things they already know.
I’m sitting here reading your comment, thinking about how I’m 55 and listening to Lorna Shore and Whitechapel while my 4 year old son listens to Maroon 5 and Bruno Mars.
They’re only 4, there’s still time :D
My kid went in the musical theater direction, which I was cool with. You have to put up with the “Look at me! Look at me!” energy from multiple kids at once, but they’re good kids, with lots of confidence, once they are away from the bullies and assholes. And they tend to be really funny in a smart way.
I love theater kids.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s it seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!
We can’t bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don’t go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m’shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now where were we… oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn’t have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
Lmao I showed that to my grandpa once and he couldn’t stop laughing 😂
sometimes it is what it is not…
I don’t find it weird and scary, I just think it’s lame when they try so hard to be noticed and/or relevant.
