Maneskin Returns to VMAs Stage After 2022 Wardrobe Malfunction

Måneskin carried out on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday, September 12, one yr after bassist Victoria De Angelis’ wardrobe malfunction made headlines.

The Italian rock band — made up of De Angelis, 23, singer Damiano David, drummer Ethan Torchio and guitarist Thomas Raggi — debuted their new single, “Honey (Are U Coming?),” on the awards present. Throughout the efficiency, David, 24, held a conveyable video digicam and captured footage of the viewers from his perspective as he sang.

Along with performing, Måneskin was additionally nominated for Finest Rock Video for his or her track “The Loneliest.” Earlier than taking the stage, Chloe and Halle Bailey introduced that the group took house the moonman for Finest Rock music video.

The band’s efficiency was a a lot tamer manufacturing in comparison with their on stage mishap final yr. MTV censored Måneskin’s August 2022 VMAs efficiency of “Supermodel” after De Angelis’ black one-shoulder prime fell off, exposing her chest. (Along with airing on MTV, the stay present was simulcast on broadcast community CBS and youngsters community Nickelodeon.)

Although she had a silver pasty over one nipple, her different was naked to viewers at house and the viewers. Cameras rapidly panned away as she and the band stored taking part in. One week later, the community launched a barely much less filtered model of the efficiency, during which the cameras stayed on De Angelis however her chest was blurred.

Previous to the 2022 ceremony, De Angelis walked the purple carpet together with her bandmates, exhibiting off her nipple pasty within the one-shoulder prime that left one half of her chest on show.

Following the ordeal, the group addressed the controversy. “It was positively an ‘oh, effectively’ second. Nothing new for me,” De Angelis instructed USA At the moment of the wardrobe malfunction in October 2022. “I didn’t assume this massive drama would come out of it.”

In the meantime, David joked, “We’re so used to seeing her [breasts], we didn’t even understand it was taking place.”

Whereas the band initially made mild of the scenario, they later identified that MTV seemingly had no concern with the backless chaps and thong David carried out in however selected to censor De Angelis’ uncovered chest. “It exhibits that there are nonetheless many, many prejudices towards rock bands and towards ladies,” the lead vocalist instructed NME the next month. “There’s a lot to work on and we attempt to do our half.”

De Angelis, for her half, hoped the second spurred progress. “It’s unhappy, but it surely’s good that folks then discuss it and give it some thought,” she famous. “It’s silly that there needs to be this management and censorship over folks’s our bodies.”

Forward of the 2023 ceremony, De Angelis referred to as out the VMAs for seemingly having double requirements. “We’re too sizzling for U.S. tv,” she instructed The Guardian in January. “It’s so silly as a result of they wish to seem so open-minded after which they get scared a couple of pair of nipples. There may be this distinction between males’s and ladies’s our bodies and the way you’re perceived and sexualized on a regular basis. Everybody has nipples.”

David added: “It’s very clear the completely different requirements folks have as a result of I used to be actually butt-naked.”

Whereas the 2022 VMAs drama is of their rearview, Måneskin remains to be used to coping with negativity. “We’ve at all times been very dividing,” David acknowledged. “There are a bunch of those that love us and are very happy with what we’re doing, after which there’s an entire different half manufactured from conservatives and conventional rock ‘n’ roll followers and fascists that hate us with all the pieces they’ve obtained.”