Miguel previewed songs from his upcoming fifth studio album, Viscera, on Friday in Los Angeles throughout an occasion dubbed the “Viscera Expertise,” through which the singer warned the small crowd that the efficiency would come with “boundary-pushing artistry together with physique manipulation [and] pores and skin piercing.”
In response to an outline of the present posted by Vibe, after taking the stage at Sony Studios in a white tank, saggy black pants and black rubber boots, the “Sky Walker” singer was joined by two males who pushed metallic hooks via the pores and skin on his again, then connected them to wires that lifted him off the bottom by the hooks. He then hung for practically 5 minutes whereas singing an unreleased music — that includes the apropos lyrics “I’m hanging onto nothing/ I’m hanging from the ceiling” –earlier than being lowered and having the hooks eliminated.
On Monday (Aug. 29), Miguel posted a sequence of pics on Instagram displaying the aftermath of the S&M stunt, together with the sequence of holes in his again in addition to the white tank prime, streaked and noticed together with his blood alongside the caption, “What’s your relationship to ache? What’s your relationship to alter?”
The kind of suspension Miguel used within the efficiency is often known as a “suicide suspension” and Miguel isn’t he just one who has employed it as sort of physique modification that dates again at the very least 5,000 years to India as a part of a non secular piercing rituals throughout Hindu festivals. Jane’s Habit guitarist Dave Navarro waxed poetic in regards to the therapeutic points of placing large-gauge hooks via the pores and skin of your again in a 2013 Guardian interview, saying, “To be sincere, at first I simply wished to attempt it as a result of it was fascinating; I didn’t know that there was going to be an expertise connected to it. I noticed it as only a mind-over-matter factor till I acquired off the bottom the primary time. Then a lightbulb went off.”
He mentioned whereas some individuals are horrified by the act — admitting that there’s undoubtedly ache, and blood, concerned — he discovered it to be “a really intensely gratifying emotional launch. Generally it’s simply enjoyable, however it will also be very meditative.”
Final month, Miguel pushed boundaries as a part of Sony’s “For the Music” marketing campaign, scaling an enormous skyscraper and breaking via a glass window in a one minute visible that director Liam McRae mentioned symbolized the singer’s subsequent period and Sony’s dedication to supporting artists like him breaking via “inventive obstacles” and connecting straight with their followers.
Viscera, which doesn’t but have an official launch date, is the follow-up to 2017’s Conflict & Leisure; he launched the only “Give It to Me” in April.
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