Miguel suspends himself from piercings on his back in insane stunt to announce new album

Miguel suspended himself in air by the naked pores and skin on his back to announce his forthcoming album, Viscera.

On Friday (25 August), the “Positive Factor” singer hosted an unique four-song live performance at Sony Studios in Los Angeles to preview new music off of his upcoming report.

Simply earlier than he carried out the music “Rope”, two assistants got here out to pierce the 37-year-old artist with steel rods.

Warning, the next incorporates graphic pictures

After putting two items of steel by way of the pores and skin on his back, Miguel – whose full title is Miguel Jontel Pimentel – was secured to wires and hoisted up into the air.

Whereas hanging in the air earlier than the gang, he sang the music, which included the lyrics: “I’m hanging on to nothing / I’m hanging from the ceiling / Rope round my neck.”

Miguel – who hasn’t launched a full-length album since 2017 – promised that Friday’s set, which was additionally live-streamed, could be a “boundary-pushing efficiency”.

The “Don’t Neglect My Love” singer is alleged to have spent a number of months working with specialists to put together the foremost stunt, in accordance to TMZ.

In an interview withThe Los Angeles Times earlier this month, Miguel spoke concerning the historic physique modification apply, saying that for him, it was an train in belief.

“Initially it was a little bit of, ‘What’s the most excessive approach to push outdoors of what’s anticipated?’” Miguel mentioned. “How far can I am going in demonstrating how far I’m keen to go for artwork, for dialog? I couldn’t have identified how dedicated I used to be to the true objective of this s*** till I had hooks in my back.”

Remembering the heavy weight of his physique hanging from the steel, he mentioned: “It was a scary and liberating expertise and emotion to undergo as a result of it’s such a lightweight change.

“It has a lot to do with ache. What does ache imply?”

Of the method of writing “Rope”, which Miguel described as a “bizarre depressive expertise”, he mentioned: “I don’t suppose I’d ever been in a spot the place I used to be creating from there.”

Miguel wrote the music earlier than his 2018 marriage to his then-longtime girlfriend, Nazanin Mandi. The pair met after they had been 18 and dated till their engagement in 2016.

They received divorced in July, nonetheless, after Mandi filed for divorce in October 2022, 4 months after they reconciled from their first break up.

“You construct a status and a repertoire round love and intercourse and sexiness – these utterly unrelated tones,” Miguel informed the LA Occasions. “Getting to the purpose the place I allowed myself to specific these feelings was a little bit of a journey.”