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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><html><div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" id="mw-content-text" lang="en"><p></del>The release — and subsequent winning of MTV's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><i>"<a href="/index.php?title=</del>1994<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" title="</del>1994<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">">1994</a> </del>Best Music Video of the Year<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</i> </del>award — of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><b></del>Aerosmith'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></b></del>s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><b></del>Cryin'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></b> </del>is widely regarded as the moment when <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><a href="/index.php?title=</del>Piercing<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" title="Piercing"></del>body piercing<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a> </del>became mainstream. It was the first time body piercing was presented in a mainstream medium in a relatively positive context, and it was the first time many people had really seen body piercing up close. As a result, millions of people went out and got body piercings after seeing the video. It was also the first time that youth culture began getting told by their "authority figures" that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><b></del>body piercing was cool, and if they knew what was good for them, they'd go get one <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><i></del>NOW!<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></i></b></del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The release — and subsequent winning of MTV's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''[[</ins>1994<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|</ins>1994 Best Music Video of the Year<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]'' </ins>award — of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''</ins>Aerosmith's<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''' '''</ins>Cryin'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>is widely regarded as the moment when <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Piercing<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|</ins>body piercing<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>became mainstream. It was the first time body piercing was presented in a mainstream medium in a relatively positive context, and it was the first time many people had really seen body piercing up close. As a result, millions of people went out and got body piercings after seeing the video. It was also the first time that youth culture began getting told by their "authority figures" that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''</ins>body piercing was cool, and if they knew what was good for them, they'd go get one <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>NOW!'''''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></p><p>One BME experience that typifies the video</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s effect reads:</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><dl><dd><i>It started when I was 16. Actually, that</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s not quite true. It started whenever I first saw the video for Aerosmith</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s "Cryin</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" on MTV. From the moment I saw Alicia Silverstone</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s character get her bellybutton pierced, I knew I wanted one. But I also knew I would never get one. That was something rebels did; I could never be that cool. Come on, I was like 12, what do you expect? Anyway, when I turned sixteen, I slowly began to realize that my dream could potentially become a reality. So, my best friend Diana and I decided to do it. We were going to get our bellybuttons pierced.</i></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></dd></dl></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><p>Directed by Marty Callner and starring Alicia Silverstone (and a young <a href="/index.php?title=Paul_King" title="Paul King">Paul King</a> as her body <a href="/index.php?title=Category:Piercers" title="Category:Piercers">piercer</a>), the video begins with a foreshadowing of her suicide by leaping from an overpass. We see her troubled relationship with her boyfriend, and then watch as she's first tattooed...</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><div class="center"><div class="floatnone"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:Aerosmith-1.jpg"><img alt="Aerosmith-1.jpg" height="108" src="/images/3/3c/Aerosmith-1.jpg" width="428"/></a></div></div></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><p>... and then her navel is pierced, featuring close-up footage of a 100% real piercing (the piercing is not actually on Alicia though; she considered the whole thing to be "disgusting" at the time) ...</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><div class="center"><div class="floatnone"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:Aerosmith-2.jpg"><img alt="Aerosmith-2.jpg" height="108" src="/images/0/03/Aerosmith-2.jpg" width="572"/></a></div></div></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><p>After a bit of wildness and teenage angst, we return to Alicia on the bridge, ready to leap. The boyfriend she's left behind, along with the police, plead with her not to jump, but they can't stop her, and with a smile, she appears to begin the plunge to her death.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></p></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><div class="center"><div class="floatnone"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:Aerosmith-3.jpg"><img alt="Aerosmith-3.jpg" height="108" src="/images/8/85/Aerosmith-3.jpg" width="428"/></a></div></div></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><p>In what one could also argue (stretching things a bit) is the first mainstream public showing of a <a href="/index.php?title=Suspension" title="Suspension">suspension</a>, it turns out Alicia had a rope attached to her <a href="/index.php?title=Navel_Piercing" title="Navel Piercing">navel ring</a>, and at the end of the video, she could, like so many of us, say with total honesty, <b>"body piercing saved my life."</b></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><div class="center"><div class="floatnone"><a class="image" href="/index.php?title=File:Aerosmith-4.jpg"><img alt="Aerosmith-4.jpg" height="192" src="/images/0/07/Aerosmith-4.jpg" width="505"/></a></div></div></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><p>During <a href="/index.php?title=1993" title="1993">1993</a> and <a href="/index.php?title=1994" title="1994">1994</a> when these videos were released, body piercing moved from being an underground phenomenon to a massive youth movement, and then on to being a cross-demographic mega-phenomenon. New <a href="/index.php?title=Category:Studios" title="Category:Studios">studios</a> were opening daily, and people started saying "When I grow up, I want to be a body piercer." <a href="/index.php?title=Macaulay_Culkin" title="Macaulay Culkin">Macaulay Culkin</a> even had a <a href="/index.php?title=Category:Movies" title="Category:Movies">movie</a> in the works where he starred as a body piercer, though the project was later scrapped. Do we owe it all to Aerosmith and their somewhat exploitative videos?</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></div></html></del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:''It started when I was 16. Actually, that's not quite true. It started whenever I first saw the video for Aerosmith's "Cryin'" on MTV. From the moment I saw Alicia Silverstone's character get her bellybutton pierced, I knew I wanted one. But I also knew I would never get one. That was something rebels did; I could never be that cool. Come on, I was like 12, what do you expect? Anyway, when I turned sixteen, I slowly began to realize that my dream could potentially become a reality. So, my best friend Diana and I decided to do it. We were going to get our bellybuttons pierced.''</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Directed by Marty Callner and starring Alicia Silverstone (and a young [[Paul King]] as her body [[Category:Piercers|piercer]]), the video begins with a foreshadowing of her suicide by leaping from an overpass. We see her troubled relationship with her boyfriend, and then watch as she's first tattooed...</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[File:Aerosmith-1.jpg|thumb|center|428px]]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">... and then her navel is pierced, featuring close-up footage of a 100% real piercing (the piercing is not actually on Alicia though; she considered the whole thing to be "disgusting" at the time) ...</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After a bit of wildness and teenage angst, we return to Alicia on the bridge, ready to leap. The boyfriend she's left behind, along with the police, plead with her not to jump, but they can't stop her, and with a smile, she appears to begin the plunge to her death.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In what one could also argue (stretching things a bit) is the first mainstream public showing of a [[Suspension]], it turns out Alicia had a rope attached to her [[Navel Piercing|navel ring]], and at the end of the video, she could, like so many of us, say with total honesty, '''"body piercing saved my life."'''</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">During [[1993]] and [[1994]] when these videos were released, body piercing moved from being an underground phenomenon to a massive youth movement, and then on to being a cross-demographic mega-phenomenon. New [[Category:Studios|studios]] were opening daily, and people started saying "When I grow up, I want to be a body piercer." [[Macaulay Culkin]] even had a [[Category:Movies|movie]] in the works where he starred as a body piercer, though the project was later scrapped. Do we owe it all to Aerosmith and their somewhat exploitative videos?</ins></div></td></tr>
</table>Bmezinehttps://wiki.bme.com/index.php?title=Aerosmith&diff=1883&oldid=prevBmezine: Created page with "<html><div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" id="mw-content-text" lang="en"><p>The release — and subsequent winning of MTV's <i>"<a href="/index.php?title=1994" title="1994">1994</a> Best Music Video of the Year"</i> award — of <b>Aerosmith'</b>s <b>Cryin'</b> is widely regarded as the moment when <a href="/index.php?title=Piercing" title="Piercing">body piercing</a> became mainstream. It was the first time body piercing was presented in a mainstream medium in a relat..."2023-05-21T01:38:08Z<p>Created page with "<html><div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" id="mw-content-text" lang="en"><p>The release — and subsequent winning of MTV's <i>"<a href="/index.php?title=1994" title="1994">1994</a> Best Music Video of the Year"</i> award — of <b>Aerosmith'</b>s <b>Cryin'</b> is widely regarded as the moment when <a href="/index.php?title=Piercing" title="Piercing">body piercing</a> became mainstream. It was the first time body piercing was presented in a mainstream medium in a relat..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div><html><div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" id="mw-content-text" lang="en"><p>The release — and subsequent winning of MTV's <i>"<a href="/index.php?title=1994" title="1994">1994</a> Best Music Video of the Year"</i> award — of <b>Aerosmith'</b>s <b>Cryin'</b> is widely regarded as the moment when <a href="/index.php?title=Piercing" title="Piercing">body piercing</a> became mainstream. It was the first time body piercing was presented in a mainstream medium in a relatively positive context, and it was the first time many people had really seen body piercing up close. As a result, millions of people went out and got body piercings after seeing the video. It was also the first time that youth culture began getting told by their "authority figures" that <b>body piercing was cool, and if they knew what was good for them, they'd go get one <i>NOW!</i></b><br />
</p><p>One BME experience that typifies the video's effect reads:<br />
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<dl><dd><i>It started when I was 16. Actually, that's not quite true. It started whenever I first saw the video for Aerosmith's "Cryin'" on MTV. From the moment I saw Alicia Silverstone's character get her bellybutton pierced, I knew I wanted one. But I also knew I would never get one. That was something rebels did; I could never be that cool. Come on, I was like 12, what do you expect? Anyway, when I turned sixteen, I slowly began to realize that my dream could potentially become a reality. So, my best friend Diana and I decided to do it. We were going to get our bellybuttons pierced.</i><br />
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<p>Directed by Marty Callner and starring Alicia Silverstone (and a young <a href="/index.php?title=Paul_King" title="Paul King">Paul King</a> as her body <a href="/index.php?title=Category:Piercers" title="Category:Piercers">piercer</a>), the video begins with a foreshadowing of her suicide by leaping from an overpass. We see her troubled relationship with her boyfriend, and then watch as she's first tattooed...<br />
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<p>... and then her navel is pierced, featuring close-up footage of a 100% real piercing (the piercing is not actually on Alicia though; she considered the whole thing to be "disgusting" at the time) ...<br />
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<p>After a bit of wildness and teenage angst, we return to Alicia on the bridge, ready to leap. The boyfriend she's left behind, along with the police, plead with her not to jump, but they can't stop her, and with a smile, she appears to begin the plunge to her death.<br />
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<p>In what one could also argue (stretching things a bit) is the first mainstream public showing of a <a href="/index.php?title=Suspension" title="Suspension">suspension</a>, it turns out Alicia had a rope attached to her <a href="/index.php?title=Navel_Piercing" title="Navel Piercing">navel ring</a>, and at the end of the video, she could, like so many of us, say with total honesty, <b>"body piercing saved my life."</b><br />
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<p>During <a href="/index.php?title=1993" title="1993">1993</a> and <a href="/index.php?title=1994" title="1994">1994</a> when these videos were released, body piercing moved from being an underground phenomenon to a massive youth movement, and then on to being a cross-demographic mega-phenomenon. New <a href="/index.php?title=Category:Studios" title="Category:Studios">studios</a> were opening daily, and people started saying "When I grow up, I want to be a body piercer." <a href="/index.php?title=Macaulay_Culkin" title="Macaulay Culkin">Macaulay Culkin</a> even had a <a href="/index.php?title=Category:Movies" title="Category:Movies">movie</a> in the works where he starred as a body piercer, though the project was later scrapped. Do we owe it all to Aerosmith and their somewhat exploitative videos?<br />
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